Sunday, September 25, 2011

Tim Wise on CNN, 9/24/11, Discussing Affirmative Action and its Opponents at UC-Berkeley

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/us/2011/09/25/nr-bake-sale-race.cnn



Tim Wise: "The point that I think needs to be made and which they often ignore, and conservative students generally ignore, is that by the time anyone steps on a college campus, whether it's Berkeley or any other school in the UC system or any college in this country, there is already been 12-13 years of institutionalized affirmative action for white folks - that is to say, racially embedded inequality which has benefited those of us who are white and it's only at the point of college admission that these folks seem to get concerned with color consciousness, with thinking about race..."

via http://www.timwise.org/2011/09/tim-wise-on-cnn-92411-discussing-affirmative-action-and-its-opponents-at-uc-berkeley/

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