Word: racism
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...live in a society where racism is one of the central features of society and those who say we should move to a color-blind system of affirmative action are just ignoring the racism in society," ISO member Brian Kelly told a gathering of 10 people, most of whom were ISO members...
...Affirmative action currently is not enough to overcome racism in society. We should argue for affirmative action to go further. We should see our commitment to equality to go way beyond the pitiful laws as they now stand," Trawic said...
...Democrats and the Republicans seem now to agree on ending special privileges based on race. They seem to be heading toward a colorblind affirmative action," he said. "The problem with this is that racism and sexism are not things of the past. A pattern of discrimination based on race still exists...
...would be a shame if Clinton's "review" sidesteps the undeniable persistence of racism in the workplace and just about everywhere else. Consider the recent lesson from Rutgers University. Here we have a perfectly nice liberal fellow, a college president with a record of responsiveness to minority concerns. He opens his mouth to talk about minority test scores, and then-like a Tourette's syndrome victim in the grip of a seizure-he comes out with the words "genetic hereditary background." Translated from the academese: minorities are dumb, and they're dumb because they're born that...
...measure of the ambient racism that we find it so hard to believe that affirmative action may actually be doing something right: ensuring that the best guy gets the job, regardless of that guy's race or sex. Eventually, when the occupational hierarchy is so thoroughly integrated that it no longer makes sense for our subconscious minds to invest the notion of competence with a particular skin color or type of genitalia, affirmative action can indeed be cast aside like training wheels...