Backfire: A Reporter's Look at Affirmative Action

Zelnick, a reporter for ABC News, obviously shares the opinion of many middle-class white Americans that affirmative action, however good its intentions, has helped foster racial animosity and inequal opportunity. Zelnick writes sharply, even angrily, about his own observations of affirmative action at work. If America is moving toward a consensus that affirmative action has outlived its usefulness, then this attack underscores the resentment driving that movement.