Affirmative Action Hits University of Illinois Football Staff

CBS Chicago reports:

Back in 1963, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., told the world that he had a dream in which his children would some day live in a nation where people are judged not by the color of their skin, but rather by the content of their character.

Today, nearly five decades after King’s famous speech, we still aren’t living in that nation. Or, at least, University of Illinois trustees Lawrence Oliver and James Montgomery certainly didn’t seem to be taking up residence there last week.

That’s because, on Thursday – ironically, just three days after Martin Luther King, Jr. Day – Oliver and Montgomery, two of three black trustees on the U. of I. board, voted against the appointment of new Illinois football coach Tim Beckman for one simple reason.

He’s white.

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