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July 01, 2003
Fudge
Rick Sander via Volokh posts a touching expose of the desires of people on the other side of the politically unbridgeable divide.
I believe honestly that Americans want blacks and latinos to succeed, but in the same way they don't want to pay off their credit cards or balance their government budgets, they don't want to address core issues. For such Americans, Affirmative Action is a fudge. It's a racial get rich quick scheme.
There's nothing quite so annoying as those who decry the hipocrisy of cheating the letter of the inconsistent law without giving much consideration to the forces that objectively cripple students we know to be fundamentally equal given the fiction of racial determinism. But the political power of the desire for diversity outweighs the political power of the desire for inclusion, so we will continue to fudge.
Posted by mbowen at July 1, 2003 10:52 PM
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