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Review of Literature on Affirmative Action.  

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Review of Literature on Affirmative Action. The issue of affirmative action or employment equity is a very polarized debate. It is possible to plot the schools of thought on a spectrum. On the far left you have those who believe it should be abolished, on the right you have the opposite side with those who wish to increase it's presence in more aspects of out lives. California Assembly Speaker Willie Brown said, "I think at every stage of any governmental program designed to level the playing field it should be constantly reviewed."1 A Newsweek poll in February found three-quarters of whites believe that blacks should not get special treatment2. At the Conservative Political Action Conference on February 10, Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole declared: "Government too often says that the most important thing about you is the color of your skin or the country of your forefathers. That's wrong."3 Mojab Shahrazad defined...

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