Not-So-New Rallying Cry: Reverse Discrimination – Roll Call

Not-So-New Rallying Cry: Reverse Discrimination

By Tracie Powell and CQ Guest Columnist

Posted July 1, 2009 at 12:00am

5-4 Supreme Court ruling
Patrick J. Buchanan’s
unemployed workers.
blacks and Latinos are being hit hardest by the current recession,
blacks and Hispanics lag behind whites for higher-paying jobs
poll
tweaking
Ricci v. DeStefano
Ricci
wrote
plans
subverted
Tracie Powell is a former American Political Science Association congressional fellow and writes regularly on politics and policy.

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