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Beran, talking about Clarence Thomas and his memoir, slams affirmative action. According to him "liberal elites use the stigma of affirmative action to belittle a great justice." (City Journal)
So how does he propose to bridge the gap created by hundreds of years of brutal discrimination and indifference?Proclaiming the end of slavery and end of racism is not going to wipe out the enormous gap between the minorities and the rest of the nation, there has to be "affirmative" action.
Beran chooses to ignore the divide, says"Implicit in affirmative action is the belief that all men are not created equal: certain minorities, such as blacks, are less equal than others, and therefore require special help. Affirmative action promotes not equality but classification: its beneficiaries bear the subtle stigma of caste. Like that other creation of the liberal establishment, the welfare state, affirmative action is supposed to help those whom the state has designated as “underprivileged.” In reality, it works to break their spirit."
