Democratic U.S. Senator, James Webb, makes a compelling case for the end to affirmative action programs- read his Op-Ed in the Wall Street Journal:
Among others, Senator Webb's focus-points are:
1. Historically speaking, it is impossible to group all whites living in the U.S. into one large group. The journey for the white-American is so diverse that one strains to find logic in lumping them all together for the purpose of public policy.
2. Less than 5 percent of whites in the South owned slaves. Curiously enough, the South consisted of a three-tiered society; the white elites, the white peasants, and the African slaves. Comparatively, southern white peasants were disadvantaged to a large degree. Ought they not be recipients of some form of reparation?
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