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发帖数: 9926 | 1 Mercury News editorial: Affirmative action is yesterday's solution to
inequality
POSTED: 04/22/2014 03:18:22 PM
The Supreme Court ruling upholding Michigan's voter-approved ban on race-
based affirmative action effectively puts an end to what was always a
controversial strategy.
Once considered our best hope to level the playing field for minorities and
women held back by discrimination, the policy to provide opportunities in
universities and in the workforce succeeded by many measures. Blacks in
particular were able to crack barriers at a time when racial prejudice and
discrimination were overt.
But it's been clear for some time that affirmative action was a strategy of
the past -- too divisive to be a positive force against prejudice that
persists.
The latest kerfuffle in California makes the point: An attempt to revive
elements of affirmative action for universities was quashed in the
Legislature this year, not by white supremacists but by Asian-Americans
whose children are disproportionately succeeding without it.
The ruling Tuesday said voters can decide on affirmative action, leaving the
door open to it if voters approve. But Californians already have passed
Proposition 209 to end it, and there's no way it's coming back to a ballot
here.
America is still a land of unequal opportunity, however.
The same day the Michigan decision came down, The New York Times reported
that America's middle class, once the strongest in the world, has fallen
behind Canada's and some other industrialized nations'. America's poor now
earn less than those in poverty in Europe.
At the same time, it's getting harder for lower-income kids of all races to
rise on the economic scale. Wide disparities in K-12 education combined with
rising tuition costs and less financial aid put college farther out of
reach.
This is particularly true for black and Latino youths: They lag in academic
achievement behind whites and Asian-Americans, not just comparing rich and
poor but within every income level.
We never believed affirmative action harmed white Americans as much as its
white opponents claimed or that it diminished the achievements of people of
color, as black opponents claimed. If judgment today is more nearly color-
and gender-blind than it was 40 years ago, thank affirmative action for part
of the shift.
It's day is over. But the societal challenges it took on are ever with us.
http://www.mercurynews.com/opinion/ci_25615920/mercury-news-edi | n****l
发帖数: 6652 | 2 总编也许过几天得被迫辞职。。。
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【在 s*******s 的大作中提到】
: Mercury News editorial: Affirmative action is yesterday's solution to
: inequality
: POSTED: 04/22/2014 03:18:22 PM
: The Supreme Court ruling upholding Michigan's voter-approved ban on race-
: based affirmative action effectively puts an end to what was always a
: controversial strategy.
: Once considered our best hope to level the playing field for minorities and
: women held back by discrimination, the policy to provide opportunities in
: universities and in the workforce succeeded by many measures. Blacks in
: particular were able to crack barriers at a time when racial prejudice and
| v*******e
发帖数: 11604 | | h**d
发帖数: 5161 | 4 不至于，社会总是在进步中的，全面废除AA还有很长的路要走，但是可以期待。
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: 总编也许过几天得被迫辞职。。。
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: and
| M*******c
发帖数: 4371 | 5 我看不出怎么反SCA5了。倒是对某族裔很同情。只知道说人穷。却不说这些人中，到底
有多少是应该出现在美国的。也不说，这些人有做过什么努力了。一边倒。 | u*****a
发帖数: 6276 | | c*******8
发帖数: 707 | 7 放开种族不谈，美国作为先进文明，社会主流是鼓励勤奋工作学习，反对懒惰福利的 |
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