To some extent, Obama agrees that affirmative action is poorly suited to address such problems. But it still is needed, he says.
“Affirmative action is an important tool, although a limited tool,” Obama told National Public Radio last year.
“I say limited simply because a large portion of our young people right now never even benefit from affirmative action because they’re not graduating from high school,” he said. “And unless we do a better job with early childhood education, fixing crumbling schools, investing to make sure that we’ve got an excellent teacher in front of every classroom, and then making college affordable, we’re not even going to reach the point where our children can benefit from affirmative action.”
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