Word: piscataway
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...whole conception of a presidentially mandated national conversation is nonsense, indeed pernicious nonsense. It is nonsense, first, to think that America suffers from a dearth of conversation about race. We are obsessed with race. We can't stop talking about race. Prop. 209, O.J., Piscataway, the gerrymandering cases, race and the death penalty, race and the law schools, race and the Oscars, race and baseball (black attendance is down): Is there an issue under the American sun that has not been given a racial cast...
...Justice Department under President Bush brought suit against the Piscataway Board of Education for having violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits race-conscious employment decisions. Citing Title VII, a Federal Appeals Court ruled that Piscataway's practices were illegal insofar as they did not remedy any actual discrimination that Williams had suffered. The decision was appealed all the way to the Supreme Court...
These civil rights groups were not alone in their reluctance to defend affirmative action as practiced in Piscataway. The Clinton Administration (leery of the abolition of a system the President had pledged "to mend, not end") had expressed hope that the consideration of the Taxman case would not include a decision on the "extraordinarily broad issue" of affirmative action. Likewise, pundits who usually enthusiastically support affirmative action shied away from this case. New York Times Columnist Bob Herbert labeled Piscataway v. Taxman "the wrong case." Herbert argued that the case was unrepresentative of affirmative action, contending that Williams was better...
...Piscataway case is a clear example of affirmative action backers abandoning their convictions when confronted with real-world battles. Whether they saw it as a lost cause or simply could not stomach the harsh repercussions affirmative action can have for some, conceding the case undermined their credibility. Defenders of affirmative action would do well to embrace cases like this...
...deficiencies is that if all other things are equal, the minority candidate should be chosen. This eminently defensible case, in which race is a mere tiebreaker and not a be-all-and-end-all that wakes conservatives in a cold sweat, is the Taxman case. Seniority being equal, the Piscataway School Board chose the woman who lent diversity in addition to business savvy...