April 2010

‘One Florida’ Has Mixed Results

April 13, 2010

As you may recall, the One Florida Initiative was a reaction to Ward Connerly’s campaign to end government racial preferences in the state 10 years ago. Former Governor Jeb Bush issued an executive order to bar race-based preferences in government hiring, contracting, and admissions. (Hiring, contracting, and admitting individuals without regard to race seems a [...]

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Pro-Racial Preferences Book Bolsters Other Side

April 8, 2010

Martin Morse Wooster, a senior fellow at the Capital Research Center in DC, reviews Thomas Espenshade’s and Alexandria Walton Radford’s book, No Longer Separate, Not Yet Equal. You may recall that I blogged about one of Espenshade’s (pictured) studies. To recap, his Princeton University study revealed students of Asian descent face discrimination at elite colleges [...]

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Ward Connerly on False ‘Racist!’ Accusation

April 6, 2010

An excerpt of Ward Connerly’s post at the National Review’s The Corner blog: “The national debate about health-care insurance has underscored one indisputable fact: In every way imaginable — socially, ideologically, culturally, politically, and financially — the American public is profoundly divided. There is one area of division that is starker, more enduring, more contentious, [...]

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Court Rules Against Richard Sander

April 1, 2010

In 2004, University of California at Los Angeles law professor Richard Sander released a study called A Systemic Analysis of Affirmative Action in American Law Schools (PDF), in which he contends that law school race-based preferences result in fewer black lawyers, because blacks admitted under these conditions are placed in schools that exceed their levels [...]

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