Affirmative Action in Florida "By assuming that what we did to blacks was immoral, we were willing to assuage our guilt via affirmative action programs and welfare. By thinking of men as the dominant oppressors who do what they do for power and greed, we feel a little guilt when the die early in the process. By believing that women were an oppressed slave - like class, we extended privileges and advantages to women that had originally been designed to compensate for our immorality to blacks. For women - and only women - to take advantage of this slavery compensation was its own brand of immorality. For men to cooperate was its own