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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (6619)4/7/2003 2:48:00 PM
From: Solon  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 7689
 
"They" were the people who stood to benefit by enforcing quotas and pushing aside better qualified candidates"

It is common in democracies for objective people to refer to the majority (those whom rule) as "us". Democracy has no constraints other than those found in the legal system beginning with the Constitution. Democracy by its very nature embraces prejudice and favouritism. Like it or leave it...