Plenty of fireworks on this one, not always tempered by a shared assumption of good will. CMP: "The remedy for discrimination is not the practice of more discrimination ... The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was not passed so that we could discriminate against whites." ... MFB: "We all know the sad history of slavery, which was the last time blacks had full employment." ... WBR: "It is not only hypocritical, it is sheer nonsense to maintain that we can end discrimination by utilizing the race-conscious tools of the discriminator, using race to get beyond racism." ... JG: "The cancer of racism is the most serious social problem facing America today.... It has placed blacks in a disadvantaged position, with 60 per cent [of the] median income of whites and double the unemployment rate. The only bright spot in the racial picture is affirmative action."