Preferences for Everybody!

Would white voters be more inclined to support so-called affirmative action if it discriminated only in favor of blacks, rather than, as it does now, in favor of women and all "persons of color"--which is to say, against white men? Maybe.

Then again, blacks-only racial preferences would have been untenable, for both political and legal reasons. Politically, it would have been difficult to sustain support for a program of discrimination that benefited only about an eighth of the population. But when you add in every minority under the sun plus a whole sex, you give a large majority of the population an interest in preserving the system...

[ironic that the only legal minority in the US is white men. Will we ever be honest enough to admit that AA is nothing more than state sponsored discrimination against them?]

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