certainly no one of us would challenge governments right and its responsibility to eliminate discrimination in hiring or education. but in its zeal to accomplish this worthy purpose, government orders what is, in effect, a quota system. both in hiring and in education. they don t call it a quota system. it s an affirmative action program. now if you happen to belong to an ethnic group not recognized by the federal government as entitled to special treatment, you re a victim of reverse discrimination. i d like to have the opportunity to put an end to this federal distortion of the principle of equal rights. that was presidential candidate ronald reagan using the issue of affirmative action to protect president gerald ford and his democrat rival, jimmy carter. now reagan didn t win the presidency. he didn t even make it past the primaries. but oh boy did he get his chance to chip away what he called the federal distortion
hands holding the rejection letter as the narrator intones you are a better candidate than the minority guy that they went with, can you steal the injustice of it all? that ad was exactly what senator jesse helms needed, he. term in the senate, 54 to 46%. that strategy worked. it worked well. making gantt the face of affirmative action, a racial quota system that kept whites at a disadvantage in favor of less qualified minorities. it was potent stuff. the race baiting in the zero-sum politics, it moved people because it angered them. it made them believe the system was rigged against them and in favor of someone else. it was politically explosive, and that was 33 years ago. but the strategy to undermine affirmative action, a program to combat discrimination correct centuries of racial injustice, the war against all that, it started well before jesse helms. this is what was happening 14 years before that.
all? that ad was exactly what senator jesse helms needed. he won re-election to a fourth term in the senate 54 to 46%. that strategy worked, it worked well, making gant the face of affirmative action, a racial quota system that kept whites at a disadvantage ipfavor of less qualified minorities, it was potent stuff. the race baiting and the zero-sum politics, it moved people because it angered them and made them believe the system was rigged against them and in favor of someone else. it was politically explosive and that was 33 years ago. but the strategy to undermine affirmative action, a program to combat racial injustice, it war against all that started well before jesse helms. this is what was happening 14 years before that.at certainly no one of us would challenge government s right and
its responsibility to eliminate discrimination in higher education, but in its zeal to accomplish this worthy purpose government orders what is in effect a quota system both in hiring and in education. they don t call it a quota system. it s an affirmative action program. now, if you happen to belong to an ethnic group thought recognized by the federal government noty entitled to special treatment, you are a victim of reverse discrimination. and i d like to have an opportunity toha put an end to this federal distortion of equal rights. that was reagan. reagan didn t win the presidency, he didn t make it past the primaries but oh, boy did he get a chance to chip away at what he called the federal distortion of equal rights when he won the presidency of 1980.
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