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Obama on Affirmative-action
News Type: Event — Seeded on Mon Mar 31, 2008 4:42 PM EDT
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Obama has sent signals that he is not doctrinaire on the issue. In an interview last May on ABC's "This Week With George Stephanopoulos," the senator was asked whether his own daughters should someday receive preferences in college admissions. His response was startling: "I think that my daughters should probably be treated by any admissions officer as folks who are pretty advantaged."
He added, "I think that we should take into account white kids who have been disadvantaged and have grown up in poverty and shown themselves to have what it takes to succeed." His comments lit up the blogosphere with speculation that as president he might spearhead a major policy change, shifting the basis of affirmative action from race to class disparities.
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Obama is desiring to push forward a "needs-based, rather than race-based" affirmative action policy.
However, there are believes that he is walking a "fine line"...
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#1 - Mon Mar 31, 2008 5:09 PM EDT{"commentId":1641231,"authorDomain":"stevehouse"}
It's a step in the right direction, for sure, but it's hard to see a near future in which this problem is solved adequately. Clipped to Successful Solutions anyway.
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#2 - Mon Mar 31, 2008 5:46 PM EDT{"commentId":1642840,"authorDomain":"1stcontact"}
Hello SteveHouse:
It's a step in the right direction, for sure, but it's hard to see a near future in which this problem is solved adequately. Clipped to Successful Solutions anyway.
Yes - it is a step in the right direction. I have to admit when I saw this article clipped to Successful Solutions I wondered "why"?. On the surface it seems more like a political topic.
But - then I read:
Obama has sent signals that he is not doctrinaire on the issue. In an interview last May on ABC's "This Week With George Stephanopoulos," the senator was asked whether his own daughters should someday receive preferences in college admissions. His response was startling: "I think that my daughters should probably be treated by any admissions officer as folks who are pretty advantaged." He added, "I think that we should take into account white kids who have been disadvantaged and have grown up in poverty and shown themselves to have what it takes to succeed." His comments lit up the blogosphere with speculation that as president he might spearhead a major policy change, shifting the basis of affirmative action from race to class disparities.
And as I got deeper into the article I realized that there were indeed solutions being offered. It seems our country has approached Affirmative Action with an "either/or" mentality. Obama's approach is definitely more pragmatic and deals with these issues in common sense ways.
Still - even though his approach is good-old common sense, it is still new to our culture's way of thinking and acting on Affirmative Action. Like you said, "it's a step in the right direction".
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