Affirmative action programs, when properly structured, can open up opportunities otherwise closed to qualified minorities without diminishing oppotunities for white students. Given the dearth of black and Latino Ph.D. candidates in mathematics and the physical sciences, for example, a modest scholarship program for minorities interested in getting advanced degrees in these fields (a recent target of a Justice Department inquiry) won't keep white students out of such programs, but can broaden the pool of talent that America will need for all of us to prosper in a technology-based economy.
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The response of liberal policy makers and civil rights leaders didn't help; in their urgency to avoid blaming the victims of historical racism, they tended to downplay or ignore evidence that entrenched behavioral patterns among the black poor really were contributing to intergenerational poverty. (Most famously, Daniel Patrick Moynihan was accused of racism in the early sixties when he raised alarms about the rise of out-of-wedlock births among the black poor.)
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The AUDACITY of HOPEHey you mister fancy degree, we don't need no skoller-ships, we don't need no teck-noller-gee, and we don't need no intact families! You wanna show that you are a good guy to have a beer with while we watch this football game/Iraq war/soap opera ... or do you want to write elitist garbage? Senator Clinton wins the nomination and then she becomes President. When she's President, she dumps that two-timing Billy-boy. That's the script.
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