If Steve Ripley was in a perfect world, African Americans would be on the other side of the AgFund desk borrowing money for their farms as well. ... A process so ingrained into the business climate would have to be forced into a different behavior to achieve the quick results that a program like affirmative action has received. Steve Ripley was not a victim of a white male corporation, but the victim of a racially one-sided good ol" boy system still present in this country today. ... I"m not sure the 25 years that Supreme Court Justice O"Connor gave the issue in the recent ruling on aff...

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