Maine Voices
The Portland Press Herald
Monday, May 16, 2011
The former economic development chief needs to look at the facts -- and get a history lesson.
ORONO - Philip Congdon, formerly Maine's commissioner of the Department of Economic and Community Development, recently issued a broadside against affirmative action, presumably for its negative impact on the economy.
Congdon's scapegoating of affirmative action is wrong for three reasons.
First, the largest recipients of affirmative action are, as Time Magazine has noted, white women. Indeed, the University of Maine recently got a $3.2 million grant to promote women in science (not bad for economic development).
But presumably Congdon wasn't complaining about his wife and daughters, or any other white women: The largest recipients of complaints about affirmative action are and always have been African-Americans.
Full Story: http://www.pressherald.com/opinion/on-affirmative-action-congdon-blames-blacks-in-a-state-with-few_2011-05-13.html
See story about comments by Philip Congdon: http://www.pressherald.com/news/ousted-official-says-hes-been-misquoted-misunderstood_2011-04-30.html?searchterm=affirmative+action
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