Obama won't settle affirmative action

The following letter was published on March 4, 2008 by
The Cape Cod Times
Cape Cod, Massachusetts

In response to Sean Gonsalves' Feb. 27 column, I don't think an Obama win would just be about a black win. In my opinion, Obama is winning now because liberal and moderate voters are banding together to take this country back from the neocon extremists let out of a Pandora's box by the Bush administration.

If Obama is elected the affirmative action matter will not be settled, as Gonsalves hinted; years and years of people being pushed behind will not wear off in an Obama administration. An Obama win would be a symbolic defeat of the arrogance that has gripped this country for the past eight years.