Between Two Worlds

Roger Clegg, president and general counsel of the Center for Equal Opportunity, wrote an excellent, nuanced summary of the case against affirmative action and against discrimination in today's Wall Street Journal. (The longer, fuller statement can be read here in PDF.) Here's a good quote:

America is becoming an increasingly multiracial and multiethnic society. That can be a source of great strength, but it can also be a source of division if people know that they aren't all being held to the same standards. The only way to enforce the antidiscrimination laws in our multiracial, multiethnic society is by playing no favorites.

(For an empirical study of affirmative action around the world and the effects it has had, see Thomas Sowell's Affirmative Action Around the World : An Empirical Study.