... to exist primarily as a result of racial discrimination, independent of nonracial factors. The author explains at length that although racial bias continues to be an important factor aggravating black employment problems, it is primarily nonracial economic forces that have sharply increased joblessness and declining real wages among many African-Americans over the past several decades. The race neutral ... divisive issue. Whites generally see affirmative action as preferential to African-Americans and discriminatory to white males. As neither group is likely to compromise on this issue ...

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