The recent Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action is a step backwards, and is inconsistent with the Court's other rulings on civil rights. In Chapter 6 of his most recent book, Close Encounters With Accountability Citizenship, Stephen Tryon addresses the reasons affirmative action programs are still necessary in the United States: specifically, because our society still manifests "disparate impact" based on race.
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Ben Franklin was right! We have a Republic if we can keep it. If we are accountable citizens we can keep it.
~ Former U.S. Senator Max Cleland
Accountability Citizenship presents a new paradigm of information-age citizenship for Americans: a simple system for taking positive control of the flood of information to which we are all exposed, processing that information in accordance with our individual beliefs and values, and holding elected officials accountable for representing those beliefs and values.