This Thanksgiving morning in spite of the news covering the ongoing crisis in Mumbai as well as the reports of a possible coup in Thailand, the continuing conflict in the Middle East, not to mention the global economic mess which continues to promise darker days to come, Americans find ways to celebrate this yearly holiday. Of course there are reasons to be thankful.
Those of us who supported President-elect Obama have reason to be glad that he was elected and can't help but be impressed with the way he has appeared and spoken this week. An acquaintance who definitely didn't vote for Barack Obama and who is happy to remind us of that regularly sent an email yesterday criticizing both Mr. and Mrs. Obama and the natural coverage they are getting in the media these days and he closed with the thought that had it not been for affirmative action these two people would never have gotten to Columbia, Princeton, or Harvard. He said the only way that two young black people would have been able to attain the level of education which they have been given was the 'favoratism' of affirmative action programs.
My response, perhaps such programs assisted them in some way, though in the Obama's case we are seeing two exceptionally intelligent and talented people. But what if affirmative action did help them? Then it worked! And we all have benefited from it.
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