Professor Walter Massey, of the University of Chicago, said: "It is ironic, to say the least, that institutions at which racial attitudes are most liberal, according to survey results, are the very places where racial conflict is increasing." [D'Souza, p. 126.] In other words those campuses most likely to have vigorous programs of affirmative action are precisely the campuses where bigotry is most likely to reassert itself. The reasons are not difficult to understand.
First I've heard this one....that AA leads to more racial conflict.....afterall, D'Souza made that claim back in 1991. Of course, it may be possible. A campus that is all white is not likely to have any racial conflict. Since AA has turned formerly all white campuses into multi racial institutions, it stands to reason that racial conflict might increase. Don't you agree?
Supreme Court Justice Blackmun stated in the Bakke affirmative action case the fundamental doctrine of affirmative action: "In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently." [Belz, p. 152.] But the sad fact is that taking account of race can only be racist and will only encourage further racism by creating another generation of victims.
So then, you all think we should ignore race completely....like it was before when discrimination was rampant. Interesting. And whom did you say was the racist? |
