She has consistently opposed racial profiling. She supports equal pay for equal work. Not only did she enforce the law as director of the civil rights commission but she is a well-known spokeswoman for equal opportunity under law. She supports the Supreme Court's Adarand decision as the law of the land. It declared that quotas and preferences are in conflict with equal rights under law.
Affirmative action creates problems with standards and increases racial friction.
And it's simply not just. It is because of the fact that much of affirmative action violates equality before the law that she opposes that aspect of it. No, In fact, she is a former labor union employee. She comes from a working-class family that taught her the value of hard work, fair play and educational attainment. Her father, who did not finish high school but was an avid reader, painted houses while her mother spent long hours working in restaurants and department stores.