Proponents of affirmative action must be vigilant in their advocacy, creating opportunities, and taking advantages of those that arise, to express their support.
We are very clearly in the midst of serious challenges to affirmative action. Those of us who believe in its rightness must regain the high ground in framing the debate, in defining the terms, in interpreting what it is and what it is not, and in making a persuasive case for what we think is just.
Now is, and always has been, the time to act. The pendulum swings -- back and forth, to and fro. Our task is to ensure that when its momentum ceases, it is resting just where we want it, just where we put it.
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