Introduction of Debaters

Moderator Ray Suarez, senior correspondent of PBSs The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, introduces the four participants in the third debate in Season Two of the Miller Center's National Discussion and Debate Series. The event, held at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC, on April 16, 2009, examined the following resolution: Affirmative Action should focus on class and wealth rather than race and ethnicity. Dalton Conley, Chair of NYUs Sociology Department, and John McWhorter, Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, argued for the resolution. Julian Bond, Chairman of the NAACP, and Lee Bollinger, President of Columbia University, argued against.

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• Affirmative action
• bond
• naacp
• Bollinger
• mcwhorter
• conley
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• miller center
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• university of virginia