“In her speech on Friday, she said that preferences should be viewed as “a temporary bandage, rather than a permanent cure.” She noted that the public has expressed opposition to preferences at the ballot box. Voters in California, Washington state and most recently Michigan have now banned their use in public universities and contracting. (Florida abolished them without a ballot initiative.) That means the original meaning of the 1964 Civil Rights Act–that racial discrimination of any kind is illegal–has won reaffirmation in three liberal states. Justice O’Connor noted that next year up to nine additional states will be voting on similar proposals–”as is their right and privilege to do so.”
TheStateOf . . . Affirmative Action. What is your position on affirmative action? My view is that it’s too easy for those of us who benefited from it to now dismiss it as unnecessary. But, at the same time, black kids need to step it up and compete without reliance on A-A.
