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To: TimF who wrote (6747)7/9/2003 4:17:40 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) of 7720
 
I don't see how racial preferences for historically disadvantaged races are some sort of constitutional right, or even a natural right for that matter.

I don't either. And the SC put a stop to unequal justice for blacks way back when blacks were still called "colored." I can find no fault with that.

Preferences are inherently incompatible with equal justice and the Constitution certainly doesn't guarantee them or even condone them, at least not anymore. Affirmative action was a flawed way of trying to mitigate the original injustice. Even with the advantage of hindsight, I don't know what other approach might have been better. Once the correction was largely accomplished, however, as it has been, then that should be the end of it.
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