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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^^The only reference to college admissions I see is the specific case of one girl. All other references are to employment.[/quote]

For those of you who are not familiar with how Affirmative Action started, this is the basic historical context.  Eventually and unfortunately, it has become synonymous with school admissions and preferential treatment.  It was never, ever intended to be defined by this.  If the PP wants to argue and belabor a trivial point that the article referred to one girl, that's their prerogative.

This was the original intent.:

[i]The first affirmative-action measure in America was an executive order signed by President Kennedy in 1961 requiring that federal contractors “take affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed, and employees are treated during employment, without regard to their race, creed, color, or national origin.” In 1967, President Johnson amended this, and a subsequent measure included sex, recognizing that women also faced many discriminatory barriers and hurdles to equal opportunity. Meanwhile, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 only included sex in the list of prohibited forms of discrimination because conservative opponents of the legislation hoped that including it would sway moderate members of Congress to withdraw their support for the bill. Still, in a nation where white women and black people were once considered property — not allowed to own property themselves and not allowed to vote — it was clear to all those who were seeking fairness and opportunity that both groups faced monumental obstacles.[/i]
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