Word: equalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Almost as provocative as the verdict to Miami blacks was the speed with which it was reached: two hours, including time for a turkey dinner. Said Betty Harris, who lives near the shooting scene: "A verdict of this kind makes blacks feel they are not equal in any kind...
...Equal pay for equal work for all employees...
...Equal and fair employment practices...
...Justice Department to throw its weight behind what is a largely spurious charge is nothing short of irresponsible. In a speech at Harvard earlier this week, Eleanor Holmes-Norton, chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission under Carter, accused the Reagan Administration of "escalating the drumbeat" of reverse discrimination charges. Her attack is well grounded--the Administration has sided with whites claiming reverse discrimination in suits in Detroit, Memphis, and New Orleans in addition to the Boston and Birmingham cases...
...single hair on a single white male head. Given the sweeping, long-term effects of past discrimination affirmative action under such strictures would be tantamount to no affirmative action at all, If our society is so shortsighted as to be unwilling to undergo limited short-term departures from absolute "equal treatment" for even so important a goal as racial and sexual equality, then social justice for all-but-the-most powerful does not stand much of a chance in this country...