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Bush Administration Pursuing "White Supremacist" Policies in America
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"This administration and allies in Congress are rolling back advances in racial equality, economic opportunity and gender equity."
Source: http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics.asp?Pa...L20030624b.html
Lee noted that even though the Bush administration distanced itself from Trent Lott's controversial remarks last year (Lott lamented Sen. Strom Thurmond's failed 1948 presidential campaign), the administration has essentially adopted the same racially segregationist platform that Thurmond advanced in 1948.
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"Believe me, its policies are taking us back to those days nonetheless."
Source: http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics.asp?Pa...L20030624b.html
Lee said she attended oral arguments at the Supreme Court when the University of Michigan's attorneys argued their case. She said she was particularly offended by the comments of the Bush administration's Solicitor General Ted Olson and Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.
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"Sitting there, I thought, 'How sad,' and I felt how horrible it is to witness our own government arguing against the interests of so many of its people."
Lee called Justice Scalia "sinister" for his comments during the court case.
"[Scalia] said that [the University of Michigan] could either be an elite, first-rate school or it could lower its standards and pursue racial diversity -- that is what he said."
"How sinister. How wrong can he get -- Justice Scalia?"
"Justice Scalia was in fact offering a false dichotomy. In realty, you cannot be a top-flight university without diversity."
Lee called Justice Scalia "sinister" for his comments during the court case.
"[Scalia] said that [the University of Michigan] could either be an elite, first-rate school or it could lower its standards and pursue racial diversity -- that is what he said."
"How sinister. How wrong can he get -- Justice Scalia?"
"Justice Scalia was in fact offering a false dichotomy. In realty, you cannot be a top-flight university without diversity."
Source: http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics.asp?Pa...L20030624b.html
When Lee referred to "a black man -- Ward Connerly" (a California anti-affirmative action activist), the room filled with boos.
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California voters supported the anti-affirmative action Proposition 209 in 1996, only because "misinformation and prejudice helped carry the day at the polls."
"Shame on California, that is all I can say, shame on California."
"Shame on California, that is all I can say, shame on California."
Source: http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics.asp?Pa...L20030624b.html
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