When Justin Ketcham, a white college student from the suburbs, thinks

about affirmative action, he thinks about what happened when he sent

out letters seeking scholarships so he could attend Stanford University

after being accepted during his senior year of high school.The

organizations that wrote back told him their money was reserved for

women or minorities. To Americans like Ketcham, it's a matter of

fairness. The average white male will claim that it's not fair to

attempt to rebalance scales by balancing them the other way. Students

like Ketcham are also more likely to claim that affirmative action is a

program geared towards curtailing workplace prejudices that really

don't exist anymore.But when Hillary Williams, a black insurance

company manager from the inner-city, thinks about affirmative action,

she thinks about the time she had to train three consecutive white male

bosses for a job that no one even approached her about filling. To her,

it's also a question of fairness. African-Americans like Hillary feel

that there is just no other was besides affirmative action to level the

playing field in certain businesses.And so the disparity in public

has helped ope the doors of oportunity for minorities and women over

is under attack from opponents who want to abolish of and from

according to one recent study, still earn on average 15 percent less

positions on the new adminstration for women and minorities, to his

Traditionally, it had been a policy that was greatly scrutinized for

its quotas and alleged unfairness towards Blacks, but at the same time

minority (Leslie 1991, 59). And universities gives special

Both the gender gap and, to a slightly lesser degree, the racial gap in

treatment, as seen from responses to the following NES questions in

that "symbolic racism" explains the lack of support among whites for

side rather than tipsy egalitarian side of the political spectrum.

diversity was designed less to fight bias in particular instances than

759 anonymous 'non-minority students' about their thoughts of

entitlement-much as the elderly view Medicare or farmers regard crop

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