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affirmative action
1. any act which affirms that no human will ever receive equal treatment, as the second it becomes a possibility some learned individual discovers an elaborate rationalization to put racism back in its proper place: everyday life.
2. a legal initiative to better race relations by offering improved employment or educational situations to minority races instead of to those who earned them.
3. white man’s burden, epilog.
4. racism vs. racism; only history can record which of these competing ideas will prove supreme.
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