1. The Bridge over the Racial Divide
Finally, affirmative action programs as an obstacle to multiracial coalition building is discussed. Affirmative action is always a potentially 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 and as black Americans generally view affirmative action as indispensable to the ultimate goal of racial equality it is an issue which must be resolved before effective multiracial coalition building can be achieved. The author suggests that the divisive components of curre...
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