My Open Letter To Ibram X. Kendi - Bonus
Conversations With Coleman
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Is Affirmative Action Racism?
According to the census bureau's historical poverty tables, the black poverty rate decreased for every age group between 19 82 and the end of regan's tenure in 19 89. Also roneous is kendy's claim, for which he offers no citation, that white women are the primary beneficiaries of affirmative action programmes. They found that employers who supported affirmative action were no more likely to employ white women than employers who didn't. What kendy lacks in empirical rigor, he makes up for in candor. Whereas many anti racists dance awkwardly around the fact that affirmative action is a racially discriminatory policy, kendy says what they probably believe but are too afraid to say: racial discrimination
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