And some was downright vicious. I've heard those who say we have a color-blind society. That is a piece of ugliness worth parsing. To begin with, there isn't a single serious critic of affirmative action who would claim that American society is color-blind. The principle that the law has no business making distinctions on racial grounds is exactly the principle that drove the civil rights pioneers.
Hunters use a duck blind to kill ducks.
It is precisely what he means to imply. The implication leaps from his text. And to a crime in Lawrence, Mass., where an interracial couple was attacked by thugs with baseball bats. According To Gore, opponents of affirmative action are no better than a lynching party. Then they must be for racism.