This year marks the 50-year-anniversary of the March on Washington — and although much racial progress has been made, many feel as though there is still much to be done.
However, FOX host Chris Wallace feels differently.
The network’s anchor and host of FOX News Sunday held a discussion on a recent news segment and asked: “How much longer should the government give special treatment to minorities?”
“At what point have we gone as far as the country, as the government, needs to go in putting a thumb on the scale, if you will?” Wallace said, according to Media Matters. “You know, it is 50 years after Martin Luther King’s speech. Obviously there were hundreds of years of discrimination. But at what point do we, in effect, say, ‘you’re on your own?'”
Wallace raised concerns on whether the government will ever stop giving “special treatment” to African-Americans and presented the issue to a panel of guest correspondents.
He asked: “At some point, does affirmative action, does special treatment, need to end?”
In response, Senator Scott Brown said he believes that we are nearing the end of affirmative action — although there are still certain areas, like education and “black-on-black violence,” which need improvement.
“I think we’re getting close, there are certain pockets where there is inequality there are disadvantages that need to be addressed,” he said.
“We have to step back from glorifying a movement, the hip-hop movement, that glorify [sic] violence. I think we’re getting very close to Americans — black, white, all races, colors, creeds — moving forward with their own qualifications and standing on their own merits.”
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