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To: TigerPaw who wrote (18889)	1/9/2003 10:40:30 AM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

Whether its a "goal" or a quota, it discriminates. Our society is supposed to be color blind and you don't remedy discrimination aginst one group by discriminating against another....

To: TigerPaw who wrote (18889)	1/9/2003 10:42:37 AM
From: LPS5	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

I've felt the way I do on this and other issues for quite some time, but it's reinforcing and fulfilling to find that there are other folks - many, as I've discovered - who feel the same. Better yet when, as my personal/professional experience and formal education progress, I find that those viewpoints and the phenomena they describe are both rooted in fact and observable in daily life. LPS5

To: TigerPaw who wrote (18889)	1/9/2003 12:36:36 PM
From: bearshark	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

The law of the land. "Accordingly, we hold today that all racial classifications, imposed by whatever federal, state, or local governmental actor, must be analyzed by a reviewing court under strict scrutiny. In other words, such classifications are constitutional only if they are narrowly tailored measures that further compelling governmental interests. "Finally, we wish to dispel the notion that strict scrutiny is "strict in theory, but fatal in fact." Fullilove, supra, at 519 (Marshall, J., concurring in judgment). The unhappy persistence of both the practice and the lingering effects of racial discrimination against minority groups in this country is an unfortunate reality, and government is not disqualified from acting in response to it. As recently as 1987, for example, every Justice of this Court agreed that the Alabama Department of Public Safety's "pervasive, systematic, and obstinate discriminatory conduct" justified a narrowly tailored race based remedy. See United States v. Paradise, 480 U. S., at 167 (plurality opinion of Brennan, J.); id., at 190 (Stevens, J., concurring in judgment); id., at 196 (O'Connor, J., dissenting). When race based action is necessary to further a compelling interest, such action is within constitutional constraints if it satisfies the "narrow tailoring" test this Court has set out in previous cases." Justice O'Connor, for the Court: Adarand Constructors v. Pena (93-1841), 515 U.S. 200 (1995). supct.law.cornell.edu