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Perry Bacon Jr., writing on his experiences as a racial minority [ESSAY, July 7], noted that the beneficiaries of affirmative-action policies are burdened by having to "contribute diversity" and speak on behalf of minorities. That's an entertaining but flawed perspective. Affirmative action means Bacon will not have to be the only representative of blacks because there will be more than a token number at school or work, thereby enabling others to appreciate a variety of views and perspectives. Affirmative action doesn't force you to be the representative of diversity; it gives you the freedom to be yourself...
...Carrying the Banner Perry Bacon Jr., writing on his experiences as a racial minority [July 7], noted that the beneficiaries of affirmative-action policies are burdened by having to "contribute diversity" and speak on behalf of minorities. That's an entertaining but flawed perspective. Affirmative action means Bacon will not have to be the only representative of blacks because there will be more than a token number at school or work, thereby enabling others to appreciate a variety of views and perspectives. Affirmative action doesn't force you to be the representative of diversity; it gives you the freedom...
...ethnic-Indian opposition Labor Party in his government. The court ruled that under the constitution Labor was entitled to eight Cabinet posts - proportional to its 40% share of the vote. Qarase's government is dominated by indigenous Fijians, who make up just over half of the nation's population. Racial tensions have been a major cause of political instability in a country that has seen three coups in 16 years. MEANWHILE IN THE U.S. ... May the Devil Take you A bereaved New Mexico family is suing its local Catholic church over a funeral mass in which the priest allegedly said...
...conservative advocacy groups had challenged as discriminatory a number of programs limited to racial minorities—including a MIT-based summer program for teens and the HBS program. MIT opened its program to non-minorities this summer, while Harvard said it was awaiting the Supreme Court ruling...
...state-of-the-art estrangement, plus the sex, that made his second novel, The Elementary Particles, a huge best seller in Europe and made Houellebecq (pronounced Well-beck) a heavily contested literary star. Last year he was acquitted by a French court of inciting racial hatred after he called Islam "the most stupid religion." (Does it help to know that his mother left him in childhood for an Arab and converted to Islam?) So is he a new paradigm of loutish lucidity, a potty-mouthed Camus? Or just a racist drunk? Platform (Knopf; 259 pages), his third novel...