Richard Rodriguez Quotes About Affirmative Action

• Mi decisión fue provocada por la discriminación positiva. Hubo un momento en mi vida en el que la discriminación positiva habría significado algo para mí: cuando mi familia era de clase trabajadora y teníamos dificultades.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Struggle, Class, Decision

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• Affirmative action ignores our society's real minorities - members of the disadvantaged classes, no matter what their race. We have this ludicrous bureaucratic sense that certain racial groups, regardless of class, are minorities. So what happens is those "minorities" at the very top of the ladder get chosen for everything.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Real, Class, Race

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• Who knows what Yale thought it was getting when it hired Richard Rodriguez? The people who offered me the job thought there was nothing wrong with that. I thought there was something very wrong. I still do. I think race-based affirmative action is crude and absolutely mistaken.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Trabajo, Pensamiento, Raza

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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