The recent announcement by Texas A&M University President Robert Gates on the suspension of
affirmative action places the College Station, Texas campus once again at the center of leadership for
Republican-style racism.
Texas A&M University is the home of the George Bush
presidential library and hosts a student body that is among the most conservative in the
world.
On Dec. 3 (2003) Gates released a statement declaring that Texas A&M would no
longer pursue affirmative action… The decision is dismaying but hardly shocking, because the Texas
A&M University System has been historically reluctant to produce excellence in anti-racist leadership
skills.
Please see a collection of links and resources collected at the Texas Civil
Rights Review:
http://pages.prodigy.net/gmoses/tcrr/index.htm
The evidence is
consistent and weighty in support of the proposition that “interposition and nullification” is the
living soul of the “Aggie Miracle.”
The words “interposition and nullification” are
taken from the 1963 “I Have a Dream Speech” by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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