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Bush's affirmative action doublespeak. (Insider Report).(Brief Article)
Announcing a legal challenge to a race-based University of Michigan admissions policy, President Bush insisted that the policy that gives preference to black and Hispanic applicants is "divisive, unfair and impossible to square with the Constitution." "[W]e must be vigilant in responding to prejudice wherever we find it," proclaimed the president in remarks he made from the White House on January 15th. "Yet, as we work to address the wrong of racial prejudice, we must not use means that create another wrong, and thus perpetuate our divisions."
Taken as a strong repudiation of the federally supported racism called "affirmative action," these remarks predictably earned plaudits from the Republican right and provoked brickbats from the Democratic left. Ted Kennedy denounced the administration's intervention as "shameful and divisive." Racial ambulance chaser Jesse Jackson accused the administration of having "the most closed-door civil rights policy in 50 years."
While the president's announcement and the ...
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