October 2008

Preferences, Barack Obama, and Sarah Palin

October 20, 2008

[E]nding preferences will allow minorities and women to take the full credit for their accomplishments. One of the reasons I advocate doing away with race and sex preferences is to allow minorities and women to achieve on their own merits. Even if individual blacks and women are admitted or hired based on grades, scores, skills, [...]

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Democratic Denver Mayor Opposes Amendment 46

October 16, 2008

You don’t say? Mayor John Hickenlooper has announced his opposition to a measure that would give equal opportunity to anyone seeking admission to a Colorado university or a job in a state or local government agency. Colorado Independent reporter Naomi Zeveloff obviously opposes Amendment 46, too, as she frames the initiative as a “measure that will [...]

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Equality for 2008 and Beyond

October 16, 2008

*Update below* The Colorado Civil Rights Initiative’s Jessica Peck Corry makes the case in the Denver Post that it’s time to end government discrimination and preferential treatment. A vote for Amendment 46 is a vote for equality. Amendment 46 will eliminate government preferences based on factors like race and sex and open outreach to individuals [...]

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Tuesday Quick Links

October 14, 2008

Ward Connerly, American Hero – The Hoover Institution’s Peter Robinson does a fine job capturing the essence of the man behind the effort to eliminate preferences in government hiring, contracting, and admissions across the country. I reviewed Connerly’s biography, Creating Equal: My Fight Against Race Preferences, a number of years ago, so I’m familiar with [...]

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Poll: Amendment 46 Likely to Pass

October 14, 2008

I don’t have much faith in polls, whether they favor my position or not, but I can’t help smiling about this: According to a poll taken by Quinnipiac University, Amendment 46 will pass 63 percent to 21 percent. (Source) The measure would amend the Colorado state constitution to bar the government from discriminating against or [...]

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Does Redressing Past Harms Justify Present Racial Discrimination?

October 13, 2008

I’m sure Nathaniel Hedman, a member of a student group called the Roosevelt Institution at the University of Colorado, speaks for many of his peers. Not only does he believe in lowered standards for certain groups to “redress harms,” he also believes the government should be allowed to discriminate against whites and Asians in favor [...]

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Did Steven Willborn Really Say That?

October 10, 2008

According to the Associated Press, Steven Willborn, dean of the University of Nebraska’s law school, says it’s okay to admit under-qualified black students, because diversity is oh-so good. In response to a study released by the Center for Equal Opportunity (CEO) earlier this week, Willborn was up front about his school’s odious practice. (Also see [...]

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Discrimination at the University of Nebraska Law School

October 9, 2008

When it comes to being admitted into the University of Nebraska’s law school, the odds favor blacks over whites 442 to 1. Odds favor Hispanics 90 to 1. The Center for Equal Opportunity (CEO) released a new study that documents cases of “severe discrimination” in law school admissions. Among the 2006 and 2007 entering classes, [...]

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Denver Democrat Endorses Amendment 46

October 8, 2008

Shawn Coleman, a Democratic party precinct captain in Boulder County, Colorado, has endorsed Amendment 46, a measure that would bar state and local governments from discriminating against and granting preferential treatment to people based race and sex in hiring, contracting, and admissions. Coleman also was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention. Coleman, who calls [...]

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John McCain’s Lukewarm Support for Anti-Preferences Initiatives

October 7, 2008

Ward Connerly is right. John McCain, Republican presidential nominee, “tepidly endorsed” the Arizona Civil Rights Initiative (AzCRI), a measure that would have barred state and local governments from discriminating or granting preferences in hiring, contracting, and admissions in his home state. “Although he supports the initiatives,” Connerly told the Associated Press, “I believe he would [...]