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...Union Theological Seminary. When they and two others* approached the foundation in 1973 about grants, it ordered up instead a thorough study of the seminaries by Theologian George Lindbeck-himself an alumnus of Yale Divinity, where he now teaches-in collaboration with Harvard Social Scientists Karl Deutsch and Nathan Glazer...
...explain how the program even came into being, Sowell speculates that perhaps, the Nixon administration pushed it because Nixon had everything to gain by splitting the ethnic coalition of Jews and blacks that had elected liberal democrats for decades. Glazer is more elaborate. His explanation cites the needs of bureaucrats to expand their own powers, and the overstaffing of the bureaucracies that handle affirmative action programs with minorities and women...
...place of today's affirmative action, Glazer and Sowell want a policy where individual and not group qualifications are used for hiring. "Middle class blacks do not need the protection of the Negro categories in order to get equal treatment today in education and employment," Glazer writes...
...surface, Glazer and Sowell seem to provide a much tougher challenge to affirmative action than the ax-to-grind arguments of the early 70's. But a closer look at their statistics, show that they are relatively hollow. For instance, if we are to believe Glazer's contention that the laissez-faire policy in practice was already benefitting all but a few educated blacks and women, then how do we explain that as late as 1968 in a supposedly liberal institution such as Harvard, there was not a single tenured black or woman professor on the Faculty of Arts...
...GLAZER AND SOWELL arguments seem strikingly narrow as a result of their apparent ignorance of the 200 years of discrimination that black people have endured in this country. "I have argued that the heritage of discrimination as we could see from the occupational developments of the later 1960's could be overcome by simply attacking discrimination," Glazer writes...