Affirmative Action Was White: Review Research Paper

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In the speech that Canon, Colman & Mayer reprint; "You warmly commended the Birmingham police force for keeping "order" and "preventing violence." I doubt that you would have so warmly commended the police force if you had seen its angry dogs sinking their teeth into six unarmed, non-violent Negroes, I doubt that you would so quickly commend the policemen if you were to observe their ugly and inhuman treatment of Negroes her in the City Jail; if you were to watch them push and curse old Negro women and young Negro girls; if you were to see them slap and kick old Negro men and young boys; if you were to observe as they did on two occasions, refuse to give us food because we wanted to sing our grace together. I cannot join you in your praise of the Birmingham Police Department." (140) the message her is clear and runs parallel to Katrznelson's as he makes every attempt to express the fact that situations like this were not only common they were indicative and parallel to the ideology that kept the laws "equal" and reality far from it. If the official face, i.e. The public representation of the staunch and fair policemen was to be accepted as the rule rather than the exception then it was perfectly acceptable for them to act outside that accord when they were behind closed doors. In other words if the constitution begins to challenge legal segregation then lawmakers can find cause to support real discrimination through exclusionary service provision.

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Katrznelson points out the shift in constitutional law, just as Lowi, Ginsberg & Shepsle overemphasize it in their post WWII discussion where challenges to old guard standards begin to shift affirmative action from white needs to more egalitarian standards but also makes clear that the separation between reality and law was enforced in subtler ways for decades, and to some degree still is.

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The development over time, of a set of egalitarian standards that Katrznelson points out is fundamental but required countless legal and social challenges to develop, many of them bloody and not demonstrative of "real" change that set about to make social service provision and other issues at least limitedly more egalitarian. Katrznelson does not necessarily offer a debate or discussion regarding affirmative action challenges, such as those which have occurred over the last 20 years to reverse the affirmative action laws that allow race to be considered as an aspect of what people think of as affirmative action today, such as college admissions and the like. This discussion would probably be well served and might add to an overall cyclical work. The point might be made that despite legal progress, and with a lack of knowledge associated with the social and legal history that he expresses in his work people today are trying to reverse strides made in the past.

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