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Americans moved to atone for their racist past by enacting President Johnson's Great Society, followed by affirmative action and the celebration of diversity. Steele argues that the results were a disaster for black Americans, not only failing to produce racial equality, but requiring blacks to be grateful to the white bureaucrats who now ...
Shelby Steele (born January 1, 1946) [1] is an American author, columnist, documentary film maker, and a Robert J. and Marion E. Oster Senior Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. He specializes in the study of race relations , multiculturalism , and affirmative action .
Lynch explains that these white men felt frustrated and unfairly victimized by affirmative action. [139] Shelby Steele, another author against affirmative action, wanted to see affirmative action go back to its original meaning of enforcing equal opportunity. He argued that blacks had to take full responsibility in their education and in ...
Sen. J.D. Vance, Donald Trump’s running mate for vice president of the United States and a white man, is firmly anti-affirmative action.Many white people, including professors make claims about ...
The case began in 2014 when anti-affirmative action group Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) filed a lawsuit against the university, alleging the school’s race-conscious admissions practices ...
A non-profit group opposing race-based education policies has filed more than a dozen U.S. civil rights complaints this year against universities, challenging the legality of offering minority ...
On June 19, 2019, Hughes testified before a U.S. House Judiciary subcommittee at a hearing on reparations for slavery, arguing against the campaign. [12] [13] [14] He argued that "[i]f we were to pay reparations today, we would only divide the country further, making it harder to build the political coalitions required to solve the problems facing Black people today."
The Reconstruction-era law was originally intended to protect formally enslaved people from economic exclusion, but anti-affirmative action activists have been leveraging it to challenge programs ...