1.0 link 128626 <![CDATA[McCain-Palin And The Death Of Affirmative Action]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paula-b-mays/mccain-palin-and-the-deat_b_128626.html We have come a long way as a nation but have we come far enough and are we destined to go backward if the U.S. elects candidate McCain and Governor Palin?

I'm talking about race relations and the demonized term "Affirmative Action," which has now come to mean "quotas" and "set asides," but from the beginning was about making policy and programs that would seek to redress past discrimination by ensuring present-day equal opportunity.

Increasingly over the years, and compounded in...

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