Maybe I’ve been reading this stuff too long, but I find this report of a Central Michigan University conference fascinating, revealing, and depressing.
The most noteworthy thing about it is … that it’s so un-noteworthy, commonplace, even banal. It’s just like hundreds, maybe thousands, of similar meetings that are now, alas, a part of contemporary life. And the vested interest of all of the “affirmative action officers” and Associations of Affirmative Officers and umbrella groups of various associations of affirmative action officers underscores how difficult, or even impossible, it will be to rid ourselves of them, Justice O’Connor’s fig-leaf of a 25 year life-span for affirmative action notwithstanding.
I was also struck by two other items in this report. First, the “building bridges” talk was presented to “the Black Caucus Foundation of Michigan
“Some of Powell
Mission statements. Gotta work on those mission statements.
There are literally billions of people in the third world who are suffering from a lack of mission statements.