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Article: Might Obama's Success Undercut Affirmative Action?
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- The Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education
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- August 25, 2008
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) - Barack Obama's political success might claim an unintended victim: affirmative action, a much-debated policy he supports.
Already weakened by several court rulings and state referendums, affirmative action now confronts a challenge to its very reason for existing. If Americans make a Black person the leading contender for president, as nationwide polls suggest, how can racial prejudice be so prevalent and potent that it justifies special efforts to place minorities in coveted jobs and schools?
"The primary rationale for affirmative action is that America is institutionally racist and institutionally sexist," said Ward Connerly, the leader of stateby-state efforts to ...