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Mar 7 18:20 UTC 2003

The opposition to affirmative action always strikes me as a ruse by
racists to hold back minorities. The racists have mostly lost the formal
legal battles concerning voting, accomodations, access, etc, but they
realize that by opposing affirmative action they are opposing the final
stages of integration, where it is subtle discrimination that still
limits minority equal access to leadership levels of society. They
never come up with any solutions to the remaining problems of racial
discrimination - they just want to declare that if everyone is EQUAL they
should get equal treatment in everything, conveniently forgetting that
in fact, in the everyday operations of society, everyone is NOT equal
because of racism.