The comptroller feared that targets would amount to setting racial and gender quotas, and he persuaded legislators to strip these from the bill.
Powell said that setting racial quotas (as done by the U.C. Davis School of Medicine, to which Allan Bakke, who was white, had applied) is unconstitutional, but that race may be counted as a "plus" factor in college and university admissions.
When I asked Harvey about the lack of diversity last year, he bluntly said "we're not going to set racial quotas" – and as an organization, Burning Man seems to be doing little creatively and systematically to address the lack of diversity.
In an interview with the Guardian, Harvey vowed that "we're not going to set racial quotas", defended the presence of rich Silicon Valley executives at the festival, and said he will personally go undercover this week to investigate the luxurious camps of ultra-wealthy tech bosses said by the New York Times to boast chefs, air conditioning and servants.
While his so-called "populist" initiatives like infrastructure have mostly been left by the wayside, he has been able to use the executive branch to re-shape immigration and criminal justice policy in a way that will set racial justice back decades.
With its actors frequently disrupting the scene and addressing the audience, the play draws attention to the problematic assumptions we are all too used to seeing on stage, setting up racial and cultural stereotypes in order to undermine and question them.
Suresh Grover Chairman, National Civil Rights Movement Grover's campaigns continue to set the racial justice agenda.
While the settlement sets no racial quotas, it requires the county to market the homes aggressively to black and Hispanic residents of the New York City area.
Mr. Pride has taken pains throughout his career to set aside racial considerations, describing himself as "an American singing American music".
PLAINFIELD, Ind .– Senator Barack Obama repudiated the "incendiary" remarks of his former minister today, imploring Americans to set aside racial divisions and heed the words that Robert F. Kennedy delivered not far from here the night the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated.
Murphy spent most of the lunch talking about how worried he was that the civil-rights movement, which was at its peak, would set off racial violence in New York, but toward the end Rosenthal asked him about a curious case, then being covered in the tabloids, in which two men had confessed to the same murder.
