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They claim that affirmative action goes against the grain of the American tradition of innocent until proven guilty. "Companies underutilizing women and minorities are considered per see discriminators, often wrongly," Glazer writes...
...last few months, the first well-researched studies questioning affirmative action have emerged. One, Thomas Sowell's "Re-Assessment of Affirmative Action" appearing in this winter's Public Interest, is a short essay challenging the reasons for having affirmative action at all. The other, Affirmative Discrimination, by Nathan Glazer, Professor of Education and Social Structure, is a major, full-length treatise designed to prove that the government is following an approach to public policy that is off-track, unnecessary, and counter to American values...
...when firms were asked to expand pools but no minorities or women would receive advantages in hiring. But rather than base their arguments on merit values or on the bootstrap philosophy, these accounts assert that things are much better for black people than government bureaucracies care to imagine. For Glazer, the struggle is over, the redneck racists are gone; the cry of institutional racism becomes the refuge and protector of the incompetent woman or minority...
...Sowell, affirmative action programs were ill-conceived and based on racial rhetoric about disadvantage rather than fact. Glazer details the great achievements of blacks in the 60's even more explicitly. He shows through extensive statistics, that middle class blacks receive about the same average salary as middle class whites. He also cites figures for husband-wife families that show substantial gains for these families when compared to white family gains during the period. And, he consistently reminds us, this progress occurred before affirmative action became a quota system...
...Glazer, affirmative action means dividing people into new ethnic interest groups, completely artificial in their makeup. A continued policy of affirmative action could spell the end of the middle class black gains...