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Argues that affirmative action is a morally sound idea that should not be abandoned. This is about one hour and 10 minutes. Thank you very much for that generous introduction and for making the Space Available and for all of us. And im going to talk for a few minutes about my new book and then we will have a discussion and hopefully the monologue will turn into a dialogue and four will be open to questions and comments and by all means objection, because this is a subject about which people have all sorts of opinions and i would suspect that there is an audience like this and people have different takes on the subject. What is our subject . Our subject is the controversy involving affirmative action and this is truly a controversy and everything about affirmative action seems to be controversial and you get a little bit of a hit on where i stand insofar as i referred to affirmative action as affirmative action and as youll quickl ....
Ill mention to others. Theres a whole raft of reasons but ill mention to others, quickly. Another argument for affirmative action was that, well, institutions say that they have ceased discriminating against people of color. Thats what they say. But what do you do if folks dont believe it . Suppose you have a faculty, lets say, a faculty at some institution. And the faculty says we dont discriminate against people of color. But the faculty is, nonetheless, all white. Well, you know, i mean, people know that for a long time there is institutions have engaged in Racial Discrimination. Onlookers say, why should we believe you now . You say youre not engaged in Racial Discrimination, but what we see is a faculty that is all white. We want more than that. We want more than your word that youre not engaged in ....
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