![]() ![]() ![]() Liberals, plainly less unhappy, see the existing preferences as inadequate. Conservatives tend to see the basic proposition as a series of elaborate, dishonest dodges designed to circumvent merit-based standards. 1Īs presently practiced on campuses or in the workplace, affirmative action satisfies almost nobody. The Court itself had a singularly dismal day on June 23, 2003, when it served up two different decisions about admissions at the University of Michigan, ruling against racial preferences at the university's undergraduate college but upholding them at the law school. This policy has had a long run as a hot-button issue in America the questions swirling around it seem never to die, and never to get resolved. When Affirmative Action was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century AmericaĪmong many possible outcomes of the Supreme Court makeover now in progress is a new focus on affirmative action, also known as racial preference. ![]()
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