Affirmative action has been generally cast in terms of race. I think women themselves are not as cognizant of the role affirmative action has played in opening the doors for women.
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I don't know how one would define an affirmative-action hire. I ultimately do not know what role race played in my hiring.
I'm not one that believes that affirmative action should be based on one's skin color or one's gender, I think it should be done based on one's need, because I think if you are from a poor white community, I think that poor white kid needs a scholarship just as badly as a poor black kid.
I feel the feminist movement has excluded black women. You cannot talk about being black and a woman within traditional feminist dialogue.
I looked up affirmative action once in Wikipedia, and it said, 'A measure by which white men are discriminated against,' and I got so mad.
I don't know what this definition of affirmative action is for some.
I have certainly met much more discrimination in terms of being a woman than being black, in the field of politics.
I think that affirmative action programs can be very important.
When I call myself an affirmative action baby, I'm talking about the essence of what affirmative action was when it started.
No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women... When black people are talked about the focus tends to be on black men; and when women are talked about the focus tends to be on white women.
Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class within the black community no longer lives within 'black community' by and large.
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