By Roger Wilkins (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) ...Affirmative action, as I understand it, was not designed to punish anyone; it was, rather-as a result of a clear-eyed look at how America actually works-an attempt to enlarge opportunity for everybody. As amply documented in the 1968 Kerner Commission report on racial disorders, when left to their own devices, … [Read more...] about “Racism Has Its Privileges” by Roger Wilkins (May-June 1995 P&R Issue)
