Jack Salzman, Cornel West Struggles in the Promised

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Guinier issue, heaved a collective sigh of relief. But allegations that the organized
Jewish community had "sunk" the nomination soon surfaced, with many
Blacks—not Blacks — not understanding, or caring about, the finer points of the Voting Rights
Act—believing Act — believing that the Jewish community was, in the words of an NAACP
Legal Defense Fund official, "[r]aising hell over a Black nominee who was trying
to increase Black political representation."
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This quote quote is is a good good place to end. Perceptions continue to mask realities as both both
communities continue their their efforts at negotiating race-based race-based affirmative action.
The careful careful distinctions crafted by the Supreme Court and Congress Congress over two
decades are being eroded eroded by by the radical political impulses of the 1990s. 1990s. As
America becomes an increasingly multi-ethnic and and multi-religious society society— —
2300 2300 religions and sects, at last count—our count — our communal organizations need to
make common cause to ensure equitable approaches toward toward the ending of barriers
to discrimination, so that all people may make their fullest contribution to
society.