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  1. Xref: sparky misc.education:4441 alt.discrimination:4701 soc.culture.african.american:11397 soc.women:20083
  2. Newsgroups: misc.education,alt.discrimination,soc.culture.african.american,soc.women
  3. Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!rock!concert!samba!usenet
  4. From: Terry.Parks@launchpad.unc.edu (Terry Parks)
  5. Subject: Re: Racist/Sexist Role Models
  6. Message-ID: <1992Nov21.044707.19152@samba.oit.unc.edu>
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  11. Distribution: usa
  12. Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 04:47:07 GMT
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  15. >Although I don't think anyone has as a goal to equate the percentage of black
  16. >engineers to thier percentage of the population. Rather, it is just to increase
  17. >the percentage
  18.  
  19. Why? What are the excuses for such overt racism?
  20.  
  21. >If 9% of engineers were black, I don't think anyone would see
  22. >a problem. On the other hand, 4% seems absurdly low.
  23.  
  24. So 9% is your quota then?
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