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Affirmative Action Forever?: The elites have now enshrined race preferences; but will the public sit still?

National Review

| July 28, 2003 | O'Sullivan, John | COPYRIGHT 2003 National Review, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

If any single person is responsible for the Supreme Court's decision to entrench "diversity" in American life and law, it is President George W. Bush. For several years it had been clear that, despite consistent public hostility to racial preferences, and occasional legal defeats for them, elite support for preferences was so passionate that it would require determined national political leadership to defeat them. Mr. Bush repeatedly indicated that he would not provide such leadership -- indeed, that he would oppose any such leadership provided by others, while himself speaking on the topic in a notably ambiguous way.

In the 2000 election campaign, he refused to ...

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