Sen. Obama has reassured pro-preference columnist DeWayne Wickham that he has not wavered in his support for racial preferences.“In response to a question I put to him,” Wickham writes,
Obama answered that he opposes efforts to pass constitutional amendments this year in Arizona, Colorado and Nebraska to ban affirmative action in state contracting and college admissions.“Sen. Obama believes in a country in which opportunity is available to all Americans, regardless of their race, gender...