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...Clarence A. Pendleton and the other Reagan appointees to the U.S. Civil Rights commission have said that affirmative action for minorities and women denies certain whites their constitutional rights. They also claim that it has caused a backlash of hostility...
...lively news conference at the end of the Hunt Valley meeting, Berry confronted Abram and Chairman Clarence Pendleton Jr., an earlier Reagan appointee who had been in a conservative minority on the old commission. Said Pendleton: "I sat at this commission for 18 months and got beat up all kinds of ways . .. Now [the new members] are here, and we are going to do the best job we can for the American citizens." Berry, who could hardly conceal her disdain for the chairman, said that the commission "is no longer the conscience of America on civil rights" and added...
Pendictories to play down the significance of statistics: "Figures don't deny equally of opportunity, they deny equal results." But Chairman Pendleton seems unwilling to accept connections between 200 years of systematic discrimination and institutionalized racism and current inequities between white and Black Americans Advocates of affirmative action do not deny the desirability of a "color-blind," "gender-neutral" society, but, rather, realistically accept the limitations of our present society...
...federal civil rights policy and agencies. Until Ronald Reagan stepped into the picture, its activities were characterized by fierce independence from partisan congressional and executive pressure alike. Reagan first challenged historical precedent in 1981 when he replaced then-chairman Fleming with present chairman of the Commission Clarence A. Pendleton. Then, in October 1983, he tried to fire three commissioners who opposed his position on civil rights. The Commission had weathered six Presidents before Reagan became the first to fire a commissioner. Today's agency is composed of four Reagan appointees and four congressional appointees, two of whom support the Administration...
...commissioner described the frightening pattern of last week's actions this way: "First they moved to protect Reagan from any criticism and then they rushed to support his policies without study." Pendleton makes no bones about the Commission's alignment with the President: "The new commissioners are independent thinkers who happen to have ideologies compatible with the Administration...