Word: racial
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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McLauglin, a white student initially deniedadmission by Boston Latin, claimed blacks andHispanics with lower test scores and grades hadbeen admitted instead of her to fill racialquotas. The University of California v.Bakke decision had deemed racial quotasunconstitutional...
...cannot be said that racial balancing iseither a legitimate or necessary means ofadvancing the lofty principles recited in the[school's] policy," the decision read. "Weconclude today that the School Committee's policydoes not meet the Bakke standard and,accordingly, that the concept of `diversity'implemented by BLS [Boston Latin] does not justifya race-based classification...
There is "a basic denial of the fact that westill have problems of racial equality that needto be worked out," Orfield said. "That denial isled by the Supreme Court...
Satcher also stressed the need to eliminate disparities in health care available to different racial and ethnic groups...
...issue of self-segregation particularly disturbed me. I recognize the strengths of self-segregation, but I also see it as tragic. I understand that many black students should have a place to get together where they do not have to worry about, as one panelist put it, "dealing with racial stuff." I also understand that white people self-segregate all the time--athletes with athletes, Jews with Jews, artists with artists. Amidst all this other self-segregation, black students often get singled out because they are conspicuous...