Reporting from Rhode Island
December 8, 2007
I am writing this post from a hotel in
If I could steal a page from Garlin’s book, I want to give you a glimpse of what is happening as I travel. In 2005,
Anyways, the local paper here has a story where the Supreme Court ruled that two women who were married in
I must say I was highly impressed by an editorial in the Providence Journal that addressed the need for affirmative action and why critics need to stop claiming that we have had affirmative action in place long enough. What follows is a lengthy excerpt from the article,
Still, Americans are uncomfortable emphasizing race. Wouldn’t it be better, many think, to focus efforts on the economically disadvantaged instead? We’d end up helping whites along with blacks, and thereby diminish resentment.
Certainly, colleges must do better at enrolling low-income students. But, as Bowen noted in a speech this year, used exclusively, such a system would cut the number of minority students at top schools from just over 13 percent to 7 percent. Ending race-sensitive admissions policies now, as blacks are seeing both opportunity and progress erode, will not get us to “long enough.”
Race issues put many Americans at war with themselves. Whites want to be tolerant but also to side with their own. Blacks want to succeed on merit but know they will not always be seen as equal.
With every
I might have to come back to
Stay up fam,
Brandon Q.
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