Sentences with phrase «attack on affirmative action»

The new black conservatives voiced these feelings in the form of attacks on affirmative action programs (ignoring the fact that they had achieved their positions by means of such programs).

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From that debatable generalization, Roger Cardinal Mahony of Los Angeles moves to an attack on California's Proposition 209, which would eliminate state affirmative action programs.

The Justice Department stepped up its attack on race - and gender - conscious affirmative - action plans last week, asking a federal district judge to modify hiring goals for Indianapolis» police and fire departments.