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  • Clinton Pandered to Segregationist Whites

    12/19/2002 5:33:48 AM PST · by concerned about politics · 94 replies · 342+ views
    News Max ^ | Dec. 18, 2002 | With Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff
    Lani Guinier: Clinton Pandered to Segregationist WhitesAfter he was sued in the late 1980s by the NAACP's Legal Defense Fund for failing to enforce the Voting Rights Act in Arkansas, then-Gov. Bill Clinton suggested to a group of pro-segregation whites that they were being unfairly targeted by civil rights laws as a result of the South's loss in the Civil War, according to one-time Clinton administration Civil Rights Division nominee Lani Guinier. "In the late 1980s, in a particularly tense meeting in southeastern Arkansas - a section of the Mississippi Delta region where antebellum social relations are still in many...