March 2009

Friday Quick Links

March 13, 2009

Voting Rights Act – On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Voting Rights Act does not require election officials to consider race when redrawing districts if blacks are a minority in the area. Disappointed with the decision, the New York Times says, without any irony at all, redrawing districts based on race moves [...]

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Michael Steele Redux

March 12, 2009

In January, former Maryland lieutenant governor Michael Steele became the first black person to head the Republican National Committee (RNC). He won on the fifth ballot by a vote of 91 to 77. He said this about race preferences: “Studies show enormous disparities still exist in education, healthcare, employment and economic opportunities along racial lines [...]

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Obama Chides Holder for ‘Cowards’ Remark

March 11, 2009

According to the New York Times, President Barack Obama “chided” Attorney General Eric Holder for calling white Americans “cowards” because they’re not talking about or dealing with race the way he believes they should. Among other things, Holder said, “Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial, [...]

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Texas Lawmakers Seek to Modify 10 Percent Admissions Policy

March 10, 2009

In January, I blogged about Texas lawmakers’ efforts to modify the state’s 10 percent admissions policy for tax-supported colleges and universities. If a student graduates in the top 10 percent of his class in Texas, he’s guaranteed admission to any public college or university in the state, regardless of the high school’s academic standards. University [...]

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Is Nebraska Trying to Get Around Anti-Preferences Law?

March 6, 2009

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 [...]

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Race Preference Bake Sales

March 6, 2009

…prove the point quite well, don’t they? A student group at Purdue University in Lafayette, Indiana, held such a demonstration last week. (Source) Since students of Asian descent generally outscore blacks, whites, Hispanics, and other groups, for example, the men were charged $1.50 per item. The rest were charged lower amounts, depending on race. American Indians [...]

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Paul Jacob Wins CPAC Award

March 4, 2009

Paul Jacob, president of Citizens in Charge Foundation, received the “Charlton Heston Courage Under Fire Award” at last week’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in the nation’s capital. In 2005, Jacob helped Oklahoma residents with a ballot initiative that would cap state spending. The governor charged him and two others with a felony in 2007 [...]

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Eric Holder’s Divisive Dialogue

March 3, 2009

Of all the op-eds I’ve read in the past couple weeks about Attorney General Eric Holder’s inane statement – “Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial, we have always been, and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards.” – the one [...]

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‘Because He’s Mexican’

March 3, 2009

Conservative writer Bobby Eberle discusses race preferences from a personal angle in the Hawaii Reporter. Eberle says he prefers to embrace his nationality over his ethnicity. Half white and half Hispanic, he’s experienced firsthand the stigma of skin color-focused policies, practices, and perceptions. He writes: “There was that box that always popped up: White, Black, [...]

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Sacramento’s Black Parallel School Board

March 3, 2009

An unmarried black mother quoted in a Sacramento Bee article believes administrators at her son’s middle school didn’t take her concerns seriously because she’s black and unmarried. An excerpt: “So she called a meeting with school officials a few months ago. Two members of the Black Parallel School Board – an education advocacy group working [...]

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