I just don’t understand the reaction to the Bush administration’s decision to oppose the University of Michigan’s “affirmative action” admissions program.
When Trent Lott makes a statement approving of government-enforced racial discrimination, he was criticized for such backward views by pretty much everybody. But when George W. Bush comes out against government-enforced racial discrimination, Tom Daschle and others complain about the administration’s failure to support such policies. Dick Gephardt even announced plans to file a brief on behalf of state-supported racial discrimination in the University of Michigan case.
Apparently state-supported racial discrimination isn’t such a bad thing after all. Who knew?
Source:
Bush criticizes university ‘quota system’. CNN, January 15, 2003.
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