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Half a century ago, America was embroiled in a legal and moral struggle to end government-sanctioned racial discrimination. Under a system known as Jim Crow, our government treated citizens differently based on race. Today, America still treats citizens differently based on race under a policy euphemistically known as “affirmative action.”
In 1961, President John F. Kennedy issued an executive order directing the federal government to take “affirmative action” to ensure that no person was denied employment based on skin color, but this policy evolved into racial bean-counting.
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The people have spoken.
On November 4, 2008, 51 percent of Colorado voters defeated a measure that would have ended state and local government race- and sex-based discrimination and preferences in hiring, contracting, and admissions. Fifty-eight percent of Nebraska voters passed a similar measure, and 53 percent of the nation’s voters chose Barack Obama over John McCain to be president of the United States.
The biracial Obama has risen through the political ranks very quickly. Does his win signal the end of government-sanctioned race preferences?
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Who would have thought in 2008, some 50 years after the country groaned under the strain of dismantling laws and practices that relegated blacks to second class citizenship, the government still would be discriminating against people on the basis of race?
Alive and well is the practice of assessing black job applicants, contract bidders, and prospective college students under standards lower than those used to assess others, all in the name of diversity. Euphemistically known as affirmative action, this practice is odious enough when done in the private sector. But when the government does it, it’s time to act.
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