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…% of each high school be offered automatic admission to University of Texas or Texas A&M. Affirmative action is the nation's most ambitious attempt to redress its long history of racial and sexual discrimination. But these days it seems to incite, rather than…

…In Whale Talk, Chris Crutcher attempted to capture the teen spirit. By doing this, he perfectly described the anger, hormones, cursing, hazing, racial tension, fear, and all around emotions of the high school age. Yet he overlooked one of the most…

…felt that he had always been a devout, militant follower of Muhammad and the nation of Islam. This betrayal and rivalry would eventually lead to his murder. Black Muslims believed that there was no other answer to the racial incongruence that was going…

…make assumptions that I don’t talk because I’m Asian, or that I don’t have a voice because my parents “taught me better” than to speak-out. At school, where racial discrimination was supposedly less pervasive, I would get sudden urges to burst out…

…lead to racial discrimination.” As is well noted in this example, Affirmative action demands racial discrimination: discrimination against whites. Whites are being discriminated against in the same ways that blacks were discriminated against years ago…

…. The 1964 Civil Rights Act made racial discrimination in public places, such as theaters, restaurants and hotels, illegal. It also required employers to provide equal employment opportunities. Projects involving federal funds could now be cut off…

…. If you want to see the United States of America as balkanized as Europe, support the school voucher or "choice" proposition. Ever increasing economic, political, racial, and religious segregation is unavoidable through a school voucher plan because…

…of a California ballot initiative abolishing sexual and racial preferences – Republicans are taking up the battle wherever they can. The debate over affirmative action takes on a particularly bitter tenor in the trenches. "Angry white men" blame affirmative action…

…-established ideas of difference that influenced racial inequalities in the colonial situation. Including discussion of the controversial practice of female genital mutilation, Colonial Inscriptions presents an African American woman's views of how images…

…, looking to end the protest offered to negotiate in exchange for an end to demonstrations. But white business leaders and politicians proved unwilling to change the racial status quo, and the sit-ins resumed on April 1. In response to the arrest of 45 students…