Monday, December 15, 2003

Candidate Review - Civil Rights - Former Ambassador Carol Moseley Braun

Here we go. Forgot to do one of these Friday so I'm doing one today, starting with Civil Rights and with the candidates I skipped last week.

This is from Ms. Mosely Braun's website, which is pretty well organized.

"The struggle is to get to the point where the relationships exist and the confidence abides in women and minorities to lead our business community. Indeed, the paucity of both in the boardrooms makes clear that many of the 'old boys' are still more comfortable with one another than with racial or gender diversity.

The survival of affirmative action creates hope that opportunity exists for those who have not yet had a chance to lead and that performance and talent will be rewarded. That hope keeps our society on a path toward progress and the fulfillment of the promise of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. The Supreme Court's recent decision regarding the challenge to the University of Michigan's law school program kept alive the light of that hope. May it guide the district court in its decision-making regarding the pending challenge to the City of Chicago's effort to support affirmative action in contracting.
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