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10/01/2003

Sowell on Affirmative Action

Sowell on Affirmative Action

Thomas Sowell: Silly letters

One of the silly things that gets said repeatedly is that I should not be against affirmative action because I have myself benefitted from it.

Think about it: I am 73 years old. There was no affirmative action when I went to college -- or to graduate school, for that matter. There wasn't even a Civil Rights Act of 1964 when I began my academic career in 1962.