November 2008

Racial Imbalances and Preferences

November 10, 2008

The New York Times reports on a common phenomenon: the academic achievement gap between whites and Asians and blacks and Hispanics. Among eighth graders who took the Specialized High Schools Admissions Test for entry into New York City’s elite schools like Stuyvesant, Bronx Science, and Brooklyn Tech, only a small percentage of blacks and Hispanics [...]

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Is the Bradley Effect Effectively Debunked?

November 10, 2008

According to the Associated Press, the Bradley Effect didn’t rear its head last Tuesday. The Bradley Effect is the phenomenon of the discrepancy between voter opinion polls and election results. Voters tell pollsters they’re undecided or that they’ll vote for the black candidate, but choose the white candidate come election day. Whites who don’t want [...]

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Obama America: Good for Blacks?

November 6, 2008

National Review Online asked a group of center-right thinkers if they believe Obama’s election is “good for blacks.” The American Civil Rights Institute’s Ward Connerly said yes it is, in the sense that blacks have arrived as first class citizens of a country that once enslaved and degraded them because of skin color. An Obama [...]

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Nebraska Ends Preferences; Colorado Doesn’t: *Updated*

November 6, 2008

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 [...]

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Will Obama Presidency Signal End of Preferences?

November 4, 2008

In an interview with The Politico, Ward Connerly said he was hopeful that Barack Obama would support economic affirmative action and oppose race preferences. “[Obama] is a very, very bright man who thinks through the nuances of issues and I cannot help believe he realizes the inherent flaw in race preferences. If you listen to [...]

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Vote for Values and Policies, Not Skin Color

November 3, 2008

A black woman admonishes blacks who plan to vote for Barack Obama just because he’s black: The same can be said for blacks who plan to vote NO on Amendment 46 in Colorado and Initiative 424 in Nebraska. Both would bar state and local governments from discriminating against and granting preferences to people in hiring, [...]

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Clear Channel Pulls ‘Carpetbagger’ Ad

November 3, 2008

Melissa Hart’s “No on 46″ campaign paid for a radio ad that referred to Ward Connerly as a “carpetbagger.” One man impersonating Connerly said he’d “gotten rich off this scam for so long.” Putting the government out of the skin color business – what a scam! The ad was scheduled to run from October 28 [...]

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