Although 49 percent of Colorado voters chose to end the practice of government preferential treatment and discrimination, 50 percent chose to retain that practice. Amendment 46 narrowly failed to pass on Tuesday.
In contrast, Nebraska’s voters did the right thing by putting their state and local governments out of the skin color business. Initiative 424 passed with almost 58 percent of the vote. When asked about this victory and future ballot initiatives, Ward Connerly told the Associated Press that “it certainly strengthens the effort…The people of Nebraska, who have a motto of equality before the law, simply are reinforcing that.”
Nebraska’s new constitutional amendment will face court challenges.
After Initiative 424′s victory, Doug Tietz, director the Nebraska Civil Rights Initiative, told the SW Iowa News that “Democrats, Republicans, independents — they can agree that the government shouldn’t be playing politics based on race and gender…That’s the message of tonight. Nebraska believes that equality before the law is not only the state motto, it should also be enshrined in the state’s constitution.”
Nebraska’s government agencies and institutions will now have to review current policies to root out discriminatory and preferential practices.
Update: Steven Willborn, dean of the University of Nebraska’s law school, said it was okay that his school admitted under-qualified black students. With that confession on record, administrators at the law school and other state-supported schools in Nebraska will have to review programs to determine whether they violate the state’s new law.
Last month, the Center for Equal Opportunity released a study that documented cases of “severe discrimination” in the University of Nebraska law school’s admissions process.
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“Nebraska ends Preferences;Colorado doesn’t.”
Thank you to the people of Nebraska for passing Initiative 424, and thank you to the voters of Colorado who stood up in great numbers for the principle of a colorblind America — only to be narrowly defeated. There will be another day, another time to cast your vote for “unqualified equality”, for the dream that someday Americans “will not be judged by the color of their skin but by content of their character” will live on.
As to the despicable ad linking Ward Connerly to the KKK (put forth by opponents of Colorado’s Amendment 46), all it does is demonstrate the ugliness – not to mention desperation – of the so-called “liberal”, “fair”, and “social justice-oriented” radical left. As an academic who has been the target of these radicals’ smears and retribution for years, I know that they will stop at nothing to silence and punish those who oppose preferences and are committed to genuine equality.
As someone who is personally aquainted with Mr. Connerly, and finds him to be one of the finest gentlemen one can have the pleasure of knowing, I want to apologize on behalf of the creators of this utterly disgusting ad. To those who are responsible for marketing it, I have this to say: you represent the very thing you so hypocritically decry: naked, disgusting, and unabashed RACISM! God help you!
Thank you, Dr. Wasson!
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