[Fuusm-l] Today's Issues for Sunday, Oct 23, 2022. Affirmative Action reconsidered

[Ted Goertzel]

The Today's Issues group meets at 9:30 on Sunday mornings in person in the
parlor of the Religious Education buildings next to the church and on Zoom
at:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8583258484?pwd=RFdJUGZOZkU4THArWFpnVkllZzh1dz0
<https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8583258484?pwd=RFdJUGZOZkU4THArWFpnVkllZzh1dz09>


This Sunday,  October 23, 2022 our discussions will be about trends in race
relations and affirmative action.  Here are some short readings.  There are
printable Google Docs files that don’t require a password.

Opinion | The L.A. City Council Scandal Shows What Happens When Race Is
Everything - The New York Times (nytimes.com)
<https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/13/opinion/la-city-council-racism.html>
 Printable
Google Docs File.
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Fa-nNQykQuVxZnJDe7Si0vXuiE2Zmv477wnvKOgizeY/edit?usp=sharing>
by David Brooks, Columnist commenting on the recent scandal over racist
language and what it says about defining politics as a conflict between
racial and ethnic identities.

Opinion | Stop Making Asian Americans Pay the Price for Campus Diversity -
The New York Times (nytimes.com)
<https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/23/opinion/race-admissions.html?searchResultPosition=4>
 Printable Google Docs File
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ACNpUs9CUoPEWolXGCPFk1dsv3BFXbBvQxIg4L_O3TY/edit?usp=sharing>.
by John McWhorter, a Black Columbia professor who write a column for the
Times, arguing that it is time to end affirmative action.

Opinion | We Need a New Language for Talking About Race - The New York
Times (nytimes.com)
<https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/03/opinion/sunday/talking-about-race.html?action=click&module=RelatedLinks&pgtype=Article>
   Printable Google Docs File.
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lTVaSqR_EgL4x5aOQk0pP1HESVE5ZEtz0qtI2PDnKF8/edit?usp=sharing>
by Henry Louis Gates and Andrew Curran, about the genetic and social
definitions of race.

The first two articles are critical of affirmative action for diversity,
this one is a defense based on a study of Law Review articles.    Opinion |
On affirmative action, the 'diversity rule' works - The Washington Post
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/18/affirmative-action-diversity-rule-benefits-evidents/>
  Printable Google Docs File
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jTcAEPqsQoaMYtVWdICidIWypQqFkF5riM3AGv_W898/edit?usp=sharing>.
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