[Howlin]

Jesse brought up reparations.

[TLBSHOW]

Topic: George W. Bush
Where does George W. Bush stand on affirmative action?

Campaign For a Colorblind America




The Campaign For a Colorblind America (www.equalrights.com) asked George W. Bush to answer the following questions:



Congress should enact a law that would ban discrimination and preferences on the basis of race, color, sex, ethnicity and national origin in the operation of public employment and public contracting.

Agree_____ Disagree_____ No Opinion_____



Race-based "affirmative action" should be replaced with class- or need-based affirmative action or a system based on merit only.

Agree_____ Disagree_____ No Opinion_____



No recent immigrant of any race should benefit from "affirmative action" or racial preferences because they have not faced a history of discrimination in the United States.

Agree_____ Disagree_____ No Opinion_____



In his answer, to each of these questions, Gov. George W. Bush checked "No Opinion."

Also, Gov. Bush did not take a position on Measure A, better known as the Houston Civil Rights Initiative, which would have outlawed race and gender preferences in contracting in Houston.

http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a36e138b1462f.htm

[rohry]

Here's a CNN poll to Freep:

"Should minorities get preferential treatment in university admissions policies?"

http://www.cnn.com/

Results so far:

Yes----14%

No-----86%

[Steve_Seattle]

"Jesse brought up reparations"

If Bush had come out in favor of the University of Michigan's policy, I have no doubt that Jackson would still have found some reason to disagree with him. Quite possibly, he would just have raised the ante and blasted Bush for not supporting reparations.