The Omaha World Herald reports that the legislature passed a bill to change Nebraska’s “diversity” scholarship program to comply with the law barring the state from discriminating against or preferring individuals on the basis of race in hiring, contracting, and admissions. But the Nebraska Civil Rights Initiative’s Marc Schniederjans says the law requires nothing less than ending such programs rather than changing them.
Legislative Bill 440 merely would remove the words “racial, ethnic and cultural diversity” and retain the word “diversity.” Any reasonable person who has followed the issues knows that “diversity” used in this context is another way of referring to race preferences in general and to blacks specifically. If the scholarship program gives preferences to anyone based on race or sex, it is illegal and must be suspended.
On November 4, 2008, 58 percent of Nebraska voters chose YES on Initiative 424. A group challenged the law in court earlier this year, but a judge upheld it.
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