Affirmative action programs, he wrote, were necessary short-term steps. “They are predicated on what we know to have been years, decades, perhaps centuries of practice that tolerated bias, discrimination, and a treatment of people on the basis of stereotyped views and misguided convictions of what they want and what they are entitled to.” These attitudes, he warned, “will not go away by virtue of a faculty vote or the forging of guidelines.”
