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To: tejek who wrote (158148)	1/16/2003 9:08:34 AM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1586780

``The president believes that quotas and racial preferences do not serve to lift up our country and to help the average American,'' I don't know all the facts, so I take no position until I understand more...but I listened to the dean of the Michigan school of law being interviewed this morning...he said that Bush is wrong to say that there are quotas and that the school has no quotas. He said that the school of law's distribution of admissions for blacks has been well below (the highest admission distribution for a single year was 9%, with other years being at 5,6, and 7%) the national average of black population (13%) distribution under the current admission practices. Al

To: tejek who wrote (158148)	1/16/2003 12:29:39 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1586780

On racial outreach, Republicans are struggling for a delicate balance as they try to put Trent Lott behind them and focus on the 2004 elections. The party is seeking to mollify blacks within its ranks and recruit more minorities at the same time President Bush is opposing affirmative action in a key court case. That isn't a mixed signal. The Republican party is trying to recruit more blacks but it is staying the Republican party. Instead of ignoring blacks as it might have in the past it is trying to convince them to support its ideas such as the idea that people should be treated as individuals and not as members of a racial group. Tim