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• in Business
  Affirmative Action Needed in Media As Well
  The media coverage of the surge in Black killings is a stark reminder that we need affirmative action in Journalism as well.
  by Mozart99 / on Apr 9, 2012
• in Lifestyle
  Where's the Justice For Trayvon Martin?
  The growing injustice to Trayvon Martin & the "Shoot First" law signed by Governor Bush that enables it
  by makingsense / on Mar 22, 2012
• in Politics
  Democrats Want a Primary Challenger to Obama
  Will Any Democrat Challenge Obama?
  by / on Aug 30, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “affirmative action”

 

• Affirmative Action Has Helped White Women More Than Anyone

  
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  In the coming days, the Supreme Court is expected to rule in a potentially landmark case on the constitutionality of affirmative action. The original lawsuit was filed on behalf of Abigail Fisher, a woman who claims that she was denied admission to the University of Texas because she is white. But study after study ...
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• NBC News Poll: Many Americans Feel Affirmative Action Should End

  
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  DatzHott.com - "Where Everything Cool is Hott!" By Victor Trammell The U.S. Supreme Court is gearing up to rule on some serious issues regarding affirmative action. On the cusp of such a historic endeavor, a recent poll was conducted by NBC News and The Wall Street Journal, which reflects that a record low ...
  5 days ago

• Op-Ed Contributor: Race vs. Class: The False Dichotomy

  
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  Why are liberals surrendering on affirmative action?        
  5 days ago

• Another (smaller) research update

  
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  Seems like this always happens, I post a research update and then Personnel Psychology comes out with their latest issue. Oh well!  At least you wont have to read as much this time  And while were at it, lets take a look at the latest Journal of Applied Social Psychology.  But first, Personnel Psych : - The ...
  5 days ago

• One Woman’s Bug

  
  Countenance Blog — Authority: 126
  Washington, D.C. NYP : State Department has hired agents with criminal records, memo reveals WASHINGTON — The State Department has hired an alarming number of law-enforcement agents with criminal or checkered backgrounds because of a flawed hiring process, a stunning memo obtained by The Post reveals. The ...
  6 days ago

• Supreme Court Saving The Best For Last

  
  WSJ.com: Law Blog — Authority: 550
  This year, three weighty issues are awaiting resolution by the Supreme Court and are candidates to be decided in that hectic final week of June.
  6 days ago

• Why is Fisher taking so long?

  
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  Linda Greenhouse says: One reason might be that Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, who almost certainly received the opinion assignment in the Texas case, isn’t going far enough in that case to satisfy the other conservative justices. Under this theory, those justices responded to what they saw as a frustratingly narrow ...
  6 days ago

• Supreme Court: no ruling today in Texas affirmative action case

  
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  … update : The Court released four rulings today. No affirmative action. No Voting Rights Act. We do have a ruling in a Texas case today, but it’s not one of the blockbusters. This case  involves water rights, the Tarrant Regional Water District, the Red River, and Oklahoma. Opinion here . WASHINGTON — ...
  6 days ago

• Race Matters: Whites Becoming Minority As America’s Racial And Ethnic Minorities Now Make Up Half Of The Under-5 Age Group

  
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  White people are becoming the minority in America… America’s Minorities Are Taking Over The Majority Via HuffPo reports: For the first time, America’s racial and ethnic minorities now make up about half of the under-5 age group, the government said Thursday. It’s a historic shift that shows how young ...
  6 days ago

• Survey Shows Eroding Support For Affirmative Action As SCOTUS Ruling Nears

  
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  (AP/Alex Brandon, File) More Americans are turning away from affirmative action, claiming the practice is becoming irrelevant — including a majority of Whites who claim it’s turning into a system of reverse discrimination. According to a poll conducted by NBC News and The Wall Street Journal, only 45 percent of ...
  6 days ago

• The Racist Liberals Who Run Universities

  
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  About the only people who approve of race-based admissions . Filed under: Miscellaneous Tagged: Affirmative Action , Colleges , Race , Race-based Admissions , Universities
  6 days ago

• 76% oppose use of race in college admissions

  
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  Seventy-six percent of adults oppose “allowing universities to consider applicants’ race as a factor in deciding which students to admit,”  according to a Washington Post /ABC poll. That includes 79 percent of whites, 78 percent of blacks and 68 percent of Hispanics. Sixty-four percent of liberal Democrats ...
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• Why the Court’s Affirmative Action Decision Won’t Affect Most Colleges

  
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  If the Supreme Court strikes down or severely limits affirmative action in college admissions when it rules in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin , don’t expect its decision to radically transform the landscape of U.S. college admissions. The reason? The court’s ruling will surely be influential, but as a ...
  1 week ago

• Poll: People in the U.S. Have Never Liked Affirmative Action Less Than They Do Now

  
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  At one time, a majority of people in the U.S.--a full 61 percent--supported affirmative action. That day is long gone. Today, support for affirmative action is at record lows, with just 45 percent of people in the U.S. saying that such programs are necessary today, according to a new poll conducted by NBC .  Since ...
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• Edward Snowden: Hero, Traitor, or Hong Kong Phoey?

  
  THE INTERSECTION | MADNESS & REALITY — Authority: 118
  Not that I ever really lost it, but Edward Snowden has restored my faith in America. Whether you regard him as a hero or as a “traitor,” as John Boehner called him for his revealing government secrets (secrets which are in fact perfectly legal). The fact remains: There is nowhere else on earth that a high school ...
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• Poll: Affirmative Action Support at All-Time Low of 45 Percent Compared to 61 Percent in 1991

  
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  As the U. S. Supreme Court prepares to hear a case involving the issue of affirmative action, support for the issue is at an all-time low among Americans. According to a NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll , 45 percent of responders said they believe affirmative action programs have gone too far and should be ended ...
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• Taking Note: Class-Based Admissions and Racial Diversity

  
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  The University of California says student body diversity can’t be fully realized without taking race into account.        
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• Barack Obama is the ultimate affirmative action hire, he will never be held responsible for anything as long as he is in the white house.

  
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  DaTechGuy: Is it Nixon, yet?
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• Milton County

  
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  Atlanta WND (H/T AWD ): Lawmaker: Hire more whites to run government Robb Pitts, a county commissioner in Atlanta, Ga., says the county needs to hire more whites. What? Not really? Yes. Pitts, a black, said, “I would encourage the county manager to find ways to inform all ethnicities when new positions ...
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• Review | Creating Equal: My Fight Against Race Preferences by Ward Connerly

  
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  Ward Connerly is a crusader, but a crusader who has picked a battle that matters. A black man born in the south but raised in the west, Connerly is a unique figure in the fight for equal rights against racial preferences. Creating Equal: My Fight Against Race Preferences, part autobiography and part political memoir, ...
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