The Economist.As a more diverse America emerges, the time is ripe to scrap affirmative action affirmative action, in the United States, programs to overcome the effects of past societal discrimination by allocating jobs and resources to members of specific groups, such as minorities and women. , according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a March 15 editorial in The Economist. The London-based weekly weighs in on the issue in the wake of new census data that show this country "in the grip of a demographic revolution." The magazine adds, "The old black-and-white America that produced the tragedy of black oppression The offense, committed by a public official, of wrongfully inflicting injury, such as bodily harm or imprisonment, upon another individual under color of office. Oppression, which is a misdemeanor, is committed through any act of cruelty, severity, unlawful exaction, or and the glory of the civil rights movement is giving way to a more complicated country-in which browns are as numerous as blacks." Affirmative action becomes meaningless and impractical im·prac·ti·cal adj. 1. Unwise to implement or maintain in practice: Refloating the sunken ship proved impractical because of the great expense. 2. , the editorial asserts, "mutating into a monster that perpetrates the very problems that it was designed to solve." |
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