William Julius Wilson Quotes on Equality
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Class-based affirmative action is good in its own right, but it is not a substitute for race-based affirmative action.
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I think that social tensions have lessened because of the strong economy, and now is a time where people are concerned about promoting equality, racial equality, economic equality, now is the time for them to build in this shift in the public's mood.
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Our study clearly shows that employers would rather not hire a lot of workers from the inner city. They feel people from the inner city are not job-ready, that the kids have been poorly educated, that they can't read, they can't write, they can't speak.
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People talk about how busing exacerbated race relations without addressing the problems of black education.
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So I see my research focusing on international problems of social and racial equality. And I think it will help inform a lot of the positions I take regarding domestic strategy issues.
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That's why I support affirmative action that's based on both class and race.
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The basic difference between the period after 1973 and the previous period is that the nation's equalizing institutions - unions, public education, the welfare state broadly defined - were much weaker in the present period.