Word: pendleton
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...commissioners, Mary France Berry and Blandina Cardness Ramises-both of whom congress blocked Reagan from firing last October-have publicly lambassed for his ties with the Administration. "I am not sure what the relationship is, but the Chairman [Pendleton] mentions Ed Meese's name in every other sentence," Commissioner Ramirez, a three-year veteran on the board, charges...
...reversal of the Commission's traditional stand on these issues could not have been more complete. Ramirez, who, with Berry, clashed consistently with Pendleton in the two-day meeting, says she discerned a clear pattern in the voting. First, the majority of the commissioners seek to protect Reagan from criticism they "rush to support the Administration without sufficient study and deliberation," Ramirez says. The previous Commission has been unabashed critical of the President. But perhaps the most devasting of the body's tendencies--certainly for women and minorities--is its condemnation of affirmative action as adversely affecting whites...
Pendictories to play down the significance of statistics: "Figures don't deny equally of opportunity, they deny equal results." But Chairman Pendleton seems unwilling to accept connections between 200 years of systematic discrimination and institutionalized racism and current inequities between white and Black Americans Advocates of affirmative action do not deny the desirability of a "color-blind," "gender-neutral" society, but, rather, realistically accept the limitations of our present society...
...federal civil rights policy and agencies. Until Ronald Reagan stepped into the picture, its activities were characterized by fierce independence from partisan congressional and executive pressure alike. Reagan first challenged historical precedent in 1981 when he replaced then-chairman Fleming with present chairman of the Commission Clarence A. Pendleton. Then, in October 1983, he tried to fire three commissioners who opposed his position on civil rights. The Commission had weathered six Presidents before Reagan became the first to fire a commissioner. Today's agency is composed of four Reagan appointees and four congressional appointees, two of whom support the Administration...
...commissioner described the frightening pattern of last week's actions this way: "First they moved to protect Reagan from any criticism and then they rushed to support his policies without study." Pendleton makes no bones about the Commission's alignment with the President: "The new commissioners are independent thinkers who happen to have ideologies compatible with the Administration...