AFFIRMATIVE ACTION….The Supreme Court outlawed racial quotas and set-asides in 1978 in its landmark affirmative-action decision in the Bakke case. Thurgood Marshall wrote a dissenting opinion in which he issued a seven-item report card on the state of racial equality in the United States, concluding that “Measured by any benchmark of comfort or achievement, meaningful equality remains a distant dream.”
So how have we done on those seven items since the Bakke decision was handed down 25 years ago? The Christian Science Monitor updates us today.
