[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 54 (Thursday, March 23, 1995)]
[House]
[Pages H3576-H3577]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  AFFIRMATIVE ACTION'S TIME HAS PASSED

  (Mr. FUNDERBURK asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. FUNDERBURK. Mr. Speaker, of all of the destructive ideas invented 
by the American left, none has been more 
[[Page H3577]] pernicious than affirmative action. It has changed 
America from a country grounded in individual rights and merit to one 
where justice is determined by what is done for, and to, one's racial 
or ethnic group.
  Originally affirmative action was designed to protect men and women 
who had actually suffered direct discrimination. But now, these laws 
are used to set aside jobs, contracts, and seats in our best colleges.
  Bill Bennett notes that with the helping hand of Federal bureaucrats 
and an activist judiciary we have actually regressed in race relations 
because, ``you have a combination of resegregation, reseparation, and 
pseudopsychological nonsense about how skin color means a different 
identity psychologically.''
  Mr. Speaker, discrimination is wrong period. It is always wrong and 
affirmative-action is nothing more than discrimination with the Federal 
stamp of approval. For the sake of every American it is finally time to 
end the cult of victimization. It really is past time to end 
affirmative action as we know it.


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