Henry Louis Gates Jr. Quotes
Without affirmative action I could never have attended Yale University. Without affirmative action Barack Obama would never have gotten into Colombia and Harvard Law school
Gates, a Black man, was one of the leading intellectuals in America. Until relatively recently, most schools had quotas of how many Blacks they would take. Many also had quotas for Jews, Asians and other minorities. It was affirmative action that started the change in racial discrimination in colleges and universities.
Henry Louis Gates, Historian & Cultural Reformer, PBS, Black in Latin America, May 3, 2011
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In 1848 a free Black applied for admission to Harvard College, amidst protests from the white students:
Moynihan was actually not the political originator of the "benign neglect" phrase which became so controversial. It had been first used by The Earl of Durham in his 1839 Durham Report on the English policy towards Canada.
Subsection (1) states that all Canadians are equal. Canada built affirmative action into its most recent constitution.
Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr. is an American literary critic, professor, historian, filmmaker, and public intellectual who serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He rediscovered the earliest African-American novels, long forgotten, and has published extensively on appreciating African-American literature as part of the Western canon.
