July 4, 2003
A Turning Point in the Civil-Rights Struggle
The Supreme Court's decisions on two affirmative-action cases this week left both sides claiming victory, but the real losers were the American people. The court could have put an end to the sorry history of government involvement in picking winners and losers on the basis of skin color, but chose instead to encourage the practice.
By enshrining the proposition that race is a perfectly acceptable "plus
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