Sen. Webb restates opponent to some confirmatory accomplishment programs in op-ed

Presently as cultural issues have returned to the vanguard of political argue, Virginia Sen. James Webb (D) on Friday reiterated his opposition to some confirmatory action programs and optional that white Americans are being "marginalized" by present administration policies.

In a Wall Street periodical op-ed headlined "Diversity and the Myth of White Privilege," Webb writes: "Forty years ago, as the United States knowledgeable the civil rights group, the theoretical monolith of White Anglo-Saxon Protestant dominance served as the whipping post for almost every debate regarding authority and status in America. After a full generation of such debate, WASP elites have fallen by the wayside and a plethora of government-enforced variety policies have marginalized many white workers."

A permeating state-sponsored racism that is as odious as the Jim Crow laws it sought to countermand."This is not a new issue for Webb, whose difficult views on race-based programs were an issue in his 2006 Senate operation, when some of his fellow Democrats complained that Webb sounded like a Republican. In a 2000 book review, also published in the Wall Street Journal, Webb wrote that confirmatory action "has within one generation brought about

"I have dedicated my political career to bringing fairness to America's economic system and to our work force, regardless of what people look like or where they may worship," Webb writes. "Unfortunately, present-day diversity programs work against that notion, having expanded so far beyond their original purpose that they now favor anyone who does not happen to be white."

Webb's newest aeration of his views comes during a week when racial issues have dominated the headlines, after the firing of Agriculture Department official Shirley Sherrod sparked debates on alleged "reverse racism" and whether the Obama administration -- and society as a whole -- is capable of engaging in mature discussions of racial issues without descending into acrimony.