Is the fight against discrimination being lost? Defenders of America’s vast anti-discrimination apparatus would like you to think so. The celebrities, activists, lawyers, diversity consultants, university administrators, and corporate bureaucrats who campaigned against the California Civil Rights Initiative profess to regard their defeat as a step backward toward resegregation, if not white supremacy.
But to judge by the gibbering terror on the faces of Texaco’s top management after a few executives were caught on tape saying ambiguously negative things about blacks in the workplace, corporate America does not feel quite as liberated as CCRI’s opponents fear.
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