HuffPost : Mitt Romney scuttled the Massachusetts government's long-standing affirmative action policies with a few strokes of his pen on a sleepy holiday six months after he became governor. - Romney, the Enemy of Civil Rights

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Romney is stealth, furtive, cunning, underhand and hypocrite in attacking Civil Rights. He is the worst enemy of Civil Rights since Barry Goldwater, Racist Republican Candidate in 1964.

"When civil rights leaders, black lawmakers and other minority groups learned of Romney's move two months later, it sparked a public furor.".

"Romney drew criticism for cutting the enforcement teeth out of the law and rolling back more than two decades of affirmative action advances.".

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Mitt Romney's Record On Affirmative Action In Massachusetts
By ANDREW MIGA
June 2, 2012


Mitt Romney's Record On Affirmative Action In Massachusetts

Some excerpts :

Civil rights leaders said his order stripped minorities, women, disabled people and veterans of equal access protections for state government jobs and replaced them with broad guidelines. They complained Romney hadn't consulted them before making the changes, snubbing the very kind of inclusion he professed to support.

"It was done under the radar and there was a big backlash," said Michael Curry, president of the Boston branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. "It was clear Romney really did not have an appreciation for the affirmative action policies long in place."

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It wasn't until Deval Patrick, a Democrat who was the state's first black governor, took office in 2007 that the old policies formally were reinstated.

Alkins said Romney never seemed to grasp that the aim of the state's affirmative action policies was to protect people who were wrongfully denied equal rights in the workplace.

"I felt that the governor was out of touch," said Alkins. "He was very uncomfortable with the issue of race and how you would address issues such as affirmative action."

The policies Romney erased were started three decades earlier by Republican Gov. Frank Sargent and substantially expanded by Democratic Gov. Michael Dukakis in 1983. Three Republican governors who directly preceded Romney had left the policies in place.

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