December 1, 2000
Give Affirmative Action Time to Act
A standard objection to affirmative action and other race-based programs designed to remedy economic disadvantage is the observation that living white Americans are not responsible for past injustices visited upon black Americans. No living white American has owned slaves; no living white American voted for laws that established Jim Crow practices in the South; no living white American helped set up inferior, legally segregated schools for black Americans. Why, then, should living white
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