Affirmative action hurts blacks

Professor assails anti-bias program:

• UCLA law professor Richard H. Sander, author of a controversial new study concluding that affirmative action hurts black law school students, generally seems an unlikely candidate to challenge a leading liberal cause.
• Yet Sander's latest research, to be published this month in the Stanford Law Review, already is drawing widespread criticism from liberal backers of affirmative action and is roiling law schools around the country.

I thought "real" compassionate people like Jesse Jackson and Ted Kennedy told us that blacks can't make it in 2004 America without extra help and lower standards?