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Obama Supports Quotas As Well As Preferences

In his first speech and talk with reporters back in the U.S. after his campaign swing through Europe,

Obama said, ?I am a strong supporter of affirmative action when it is properly structured, so that it is not just a quota, but acknowledging or taking into account some of the hardships and difficulties communities of color have experienced and continue to experience.?

Obama said he did not want to see wealthier African-American children getting more breaks than poor white children.

Not just a quota? So, Obama has no objection to racial quotas, as long as quotas aren?t just quotas.

And he apparently also has no objections to poor blacks ?getting more breaks? than poor whites and Asians; middle class blacks ?getting more breaks? than middle class whites and Asians; and rich blacks ?getting more breaks? than rich whites or Asians.

The more Obama talks about affirmative action, the more he makes even Bill Clinton?s ?mend it, don?t end it? sound almost real. Do American voters really want to elect a president who stands four square with ... Al Sharpton, who announced that ?he, too, was disappointed? that McCain has finally come out for colorblind equal treatment?

Is it still possible to think of Obama as the post- or trans-racial candidate? Give me a break....

Full post as published by Discriminations on July 28, 2008 (boomark / email).