Discriminations

ABC News reports today that new census figures “Add Fuel To Fiery Affirmative Action Debate; Critics of Diversity Programs Say the Latest Census Figures Justify Their Stance.”

"As America becomes increasingly multi-ethnic and multiracial, it becomes more and more untenable for some people to get preferences on the basis of race or ethnicity," says [Roger] Clegg [president of the Center for Equal Opportunity]. “I think it makes it harder and harder to justify giving some groups special treatment because it becomes more difficult to pick and choose who deserves special treatment.”
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Ward Connerly, the California businessman leading the drive behind the ballot initiatives, says the new census figures show that America is no longer the place it was when affirmative action policies were put into place in 1961.

“We are a nation of minorities now; the idea the government can prefer one group over another is insane,” Connerly says. “Racial preferences are fundamentally unfair and marginalize the very people they’re intended to benefit.”

Naturally, those who support racial preferences disagree.

Gary Orfield, the co-director of the Civil Rights Project and a professor of education at UCLA, says the basic structure of discrimination and inequality against African-Americans and Latinos remains in place and has never been resolved.

Orfield and friends would “resolve” this problem by keeping affirmative action, which itself is a massive “structure of discrimination,” in place forever, or at least until the ever-present playing field is leveled, which is the same thing.