Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen uses theFrank Ricci Supreme Court case to attack affirmative action: The justification for affirmative action gets weaker and weaker. Maybe once it was possible to argue that some innocent people had to suffer in the name of progress, but a glance at the White House strongly suggests that things have changed. For most Americans, race has become supremely irrelevant. Everyone knows this. Every poll shows this. Maybe the Supreme Court will recognize this. First of all, affirmative action was never solely about racism–though the media have long made race their primary consideration in how they [...]
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