Matt Waters on Ending Racial Preferences
Matt Waters writes about the American Civil Rights Institute’s Ward Connerly on Townhall.
“Thirteen years ago one man challenged the political establishment—of both parties—and won,” Waters writes. “His issue? Ending racial preferences. The man? Ward Connerly. Connerly, a Sacramento-based businessman, made the case why all Americans, black and white, should oppose racial preferences. At their core, racial preferences were meant to assist the disadvantaged, those who had a lesser education or who were born into impoverished conditions. What was created was a system that cheated thousands of hard working Americans of all races and classes, and coddled some Americans based solely on their race or gender.”
I reviewed Connerly’s first book, Creating Equal: My Fight Against Race Preferences, a few years before I met him. Check it out.
Waters notes the anger of groups opposed to equal treatment, such as ACORN, which tried to stop petitioners collecting signatures for measures that banned government preferences and discrimination in hiring, contracting, and admitting.
“Blocking and harassing petition circulators isn’t the only challenge facing the American Civil Rights Coalition as it attempts to get its initiative on the ballot in states across the nation. According to Connerly, ‘The other challenge comes in the form of lawsuits like the one the ACLU recently filed against our effort in Missouri. A judge there barred our initiative from appearing on the ballot based on a technicality. But this is the second time we have been blocked from gathering signatures by fraudulent ballot language written by the ACORN-backed Secretary of State, Robin Carnahan.’”
Read the full text of the article here.
