Affirmative Action #3
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...THE PAPERSTORE
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
Barbara Babcock Inc., April 2000
When Burt Blass, a white Texaco executive from Queens, thinks about affirmative action, he thinks about the time he competed for a promotion with an equally qualified woman and the woman got the job -even though she was about to go out on maternity leave. To him, it's a question of fairness - not racism or sexism. "Instead of evening the playing field, we're going the other way," says Blass. "Maybe we're making up for hundreds of years of wrongdoing, but I didn't do anything."
Individuals and organizations in America are not uniformly race- and gender-neutral. Race and gender may determine an individual's political rights, selection for employment, and access to medical care (Omi & Winant 31). Emotional, intellectually dividing, and complicated, affirmative action - over 35 years after it entered the national lexicon in the wake of the Civil Rights...
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