Then you hit college and kids feel that they have to choose to be a part of a racial structure or group in order to complete their three-dimensional personality. Oh continued her speech by stating that there will be major problems in the future if people do not address racism now. If we look around the world, we can see the implications of long- term racial inequality. Given our resources and our abilities as a country, there is no reason we cannot cross the bridge of racial equality. Oh believes that in order to reach those lofty aspirations, affirmative action and immigration must become the two major political issues by the year 2000.
Nobody is interested in that kind of a policy.
But affirmative action is about opening up an opportunity that wouldn't normally be there without this policy in place. In every history book I've read, America is always the land of immigrants, but in 1998, we seem to have forgotten that. Oh did a great job addressing race relations in her speech. It's nice to hear someone from Clinton's staff come to Davis and talk about such important issues. Unlike some of the speakers at Davis who antagonize people in the audience, Angela is very respectful.