jreeves
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- Feb 12, 2008
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Affirmative action was not a Nixon mandate. What I said was that white reaped most of the benefits of racial inequality...until the mid to late 1970's when Nixon destroyed the Bretton Woods system.
This created an ever widening gap between the rich and the poor. It was the middle class who were hit the hardest...white working class people.
When Affirmative Action came along, whites hated it because for the first time in American history they felt what black people had been going through for decades.
Whites screamed bloody murder and to this day denounce affirmative action. Where were those cries when it was blacks experiencing these inequities?
Why, is this generation responsible for what their ancestors did?