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Barry Goldstein, an attorney for the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, called Reynolds' efforts "a gross misallocation of prosecutorial resources." A fight is shaping up in New York State, where officials have said they will abide by a court order establishing numerical hiring goals for the state police...
There is, of course, a fierce dispute over whether affirmative action works. Says NAACP Legal Defense Fund Counsel Barry Goldstein: "There's no doubt in my mind that affirmative action has been effective. In 1970 there were about 23,000 black police officers in the country; in 1979 there were 43,000. In 1970 there were appproximately 15,000 black electricians; in 1979 there were 37,000. We're not just talking about jobs for the black elite, we're talking about solid jobs in the economy." Agrees Jonathan Leonard, a Business School professor at the University of California, Berkeley...
...special faculty Club luncheon for Bishop Tutu and over 60 diverse students, faculty members, and administrators, the Bishop spoke of the importance of racial harmony and praised the Foundation's approach toward achieving this end. In his award acceptance remarks at the NAACP dinner and later in a letter to the Foundation. Dr. Hooks commended the multiracial gathering and thanked Harvard for remembering the 75th birthday of the organization...
...Foundation staff greatly appreciate the many letters and calls we received from 'students and faculty thanking us for the invitations to our events. We were particularly touched by a recent note from a Black freshman who attended the NAACP dinner. It read in part: "Thank you very much for inviting me to enjoy and help honor Benjamin Hooks and other contributors to the NAACP....I am very much interested in helping the Foundations." This is the kind of participating spirit that the Foundation has endeavored to develop...
Unfortunately we have also received a number of complaints from students who were not invited to the luncheon for Bishop Tutu, the NAACP dinner and a recent dinner for the U.S. Ambassador to Kenya. We humbly apologize to those students who were not invited but were interested in attending these events. We would like to assure them that no student of any background was deliberately excluded from these activities...