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consideration for legal rights as, say middle-class Negroes
or middle-class Whites.
This is why I have made this particular proposal.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delecrate Kiefer.
DELEGATE KIEFER: Mr. Chairman, this matter --
I rise to oppose this amendment. This matter was discussed
in great detail in our committee. We had numerous hearings
with respect to the economically deprived, so-called.
One of the problems was, what is an economically deprived
person?
Some people on a particular level consider them-
selves economically deprived when they are extremely well
off according to other groups.
In any event, the problem was handled. We con-
sidered it, and it is part of Recommendation No. 2, which
we will come to in due season. But there is a great dif-
ference between thispparticular amendment and the one that
we adopted with respect to race and color amendments.
Race and color amendments and the 14th Amendment
were directed prin''"y to those practiced based upon dis-
crinination because of race, color, or national origin.