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AFFIRMATIVE DISCRIMINATION by NATHAN GLAZER 248 pages. Basic Books...
...this presidential season, busing, Big Government and judicial usurpation are under almost as much fire from liberal candidates as conservative. In fact, some of the most trenchant assaults on liberalism have been mounted by liberal renegades, whose arguments are honed by their disappointment. Harvard Sociologist Nathan Glazer is among the "neoconservative" writers, clustered about Commentary and The Public Interest, who object to the antidemocratic temper that has infected much of the liberal-left in America...
Responding to Glazer's "colorblind" comment, Allison, a black, said "with all the handicaps you've already put on me, I'm supposed to forget about it and run the 100-yard dash with you with a twentypound weight around my neck. That weight may seem invisible to you, but it sure slows down the process...
...What would happen with affirmative action seems to be happening without it in large parts of society," Glazer said. He added that only economic measure or special programs, not different hiring practices, would benefit the less skilled minorities...
Allison said he agreed with Glazer that "affirmative action is dead and we don't have enough nails to put in the coffin." He said hiring minorities has stopped being the moral issue of hiring "poor blacks from the ghetto...