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Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu reflected on recent changes in race relations and urged continued efforts to help racial minorities during a two-day conference at Harvard Law School over the weekend...
...Connor said, citing a statistic that black men are more likely to be in prison at some point during their lives than to graduate from college. O’Connor described affirmative action as a “temporary bandage, rather than a permanent cure” to the racial tensions stemming from unequal representation in positions of power and leadership...
...light of the “disaster of K-12 education,” O’Connor said, she hoped that policy-makers would pay more attention to early education, even though promoting racial diversity in higher education was a laudable goal...
...just want to thank her for providing the framework for what I do,” said Lee, a Law School graduate who left private practice several years ago to work in the admissions office promoting racial diversity...
There is no question that racial bias is a powerful force to overcome and a slippery one to quantify. But with Obama propelled by panic over shrinking nest eggs and the wilting Dow, the Bradley effect may be this fall's paper tiger: an old theory re-heated by the media because there's not much left to talk about...