How We Lost Affirmative Action
Affirmative action is dead. It died a long time ago, but no one seemed to notice. In truth, its death was predictable in the late 1960s when President Richard Nixon, faced with a radicalized Black Power movement that demanded reparations for slavery, used the federal non-discrimination statute (also known as Executive Order 11246) to appease Black folk.…
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