The West Wing, Season Three

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C.J.:
I'm the wrong Democrat to talk to about affirmative action.

Toby:
Why?

C.J.:
Because... After my father fought in Korea, he became what this government begs every college graduate to become. He became a teacher. And he raised a family on a teacher's salary, and he paid his taxes and always crossed at the green. And any time there was opportunity for career advancement, it took him an extra five years because invariably there was a less qualified black woman in the picture. So instead of retiring as superintendent of the Ohio Valley Union Free School District, he retired head of the math department at William Henry Harrison Junior High.

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  • Victoria Freemonte
    Victoria Freemonte
    This always seemed unlikely to me considering that even now only about 10 percent of school administrators are black nationwide and it was probably much less than that for much of her father's career to say nothing of the gender inequality that existed and still does to some extent. 
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