On Hubert Humphrey Once Asserting that, "I Will Eat My Hat if this (the Civil Rights Act of 1964) Leads to Racial Quotas"

This is one of those historical realities that many folks on the left don't know (and those who do know want to keep it a secret). The hard reality is that virtually none of the supporters of this legislation (more of whom were Republican, another inconvenient fact) wanted quotas and instead saw affirmative action as an outreach policy in which schools and businesses were encouraged to reach out and find QUALIFIED CANDIDATES (with preferential treatment not being a component ). Something clearly got lost in translation.