Jesus was a protestor. Rome locked out its creativity and his genius and thus engaged in capital punishment to silence him. But the grave is too static and too shallow to contain truth. Truth crushed unto earth will rise again. We must affirm, affirmative action.
Reactionaries seek to use it as a race negative to instill fear.
It is a majority issue, not a minority issue - women and people of color, and the disabled. Colin Powell was an affirmative action pool, made possible by President Carter and Secretary Clifford Alexander. Today we have a million available high tech jobs. Without affirmative action, training and employing workers at home, we would have to import millions of workers. Al Gore ended the quota of zero Jewish Americans on the national ticket last week.