January 2010

Ward Connerly on Harry Reid’s Comments

January 12, 2010

If you’ve been living in a Wi-Fi-bereft cave for the last few days, you probably missed the Harry Reid uproar. The senator said something rather innocuous about our biracial president during the campaign. He described Barack Obama as a “light-skinned” black man with “with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.” As expected, [...]

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Youngstown’s Hiring Lists Redux

January 7, 2010

Yesterday I blogged about the city of Youngstown, Ohio, hiring people for police officer and firefighter jobs from two separate lists: one for white men and one for minorities and women. The publication I quoted, Vindy.com, published an editorial about the issue. Mayor Jay Williams wants to change the two-list hiring practice and use one [...]

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Matt Waters on Ending Racial Preferences

January 7, 2010

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 [...]

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Two Hiring Lists, Two Different Standards

January 6, 2010

Try to follow this. The city of Youngstown, Ohio, hires police officers and firefighters from two separate lists: one for white men and one for minorities and women. Taxpayers are funding their government’s discriminatory practices that apply different standards to groups based on race and sex. (Source) How do I know the standards are different, [...]

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Espenshade Redux – Selective Colleges & Inequality

January 5, 2010

I recently blogged about Thomas Espenshade, author of a Princeton University study that showed students of Asian descent are discriminated against at elite colleges and universities. He came up with what he probably thinks is a bold plan to close the racial academic achievement gap. Calling it a project “with the same scale, urgency, and [...]

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