June 2010

Male Preferences in Admissions

June 8, 2010

Admitting individuals to college based only on factors like grades, scores, and extracurricular activities seems a naïve notion, I admit. We must “remedy” past discrimination, they say. But when our government makes assumptions about individuals, and we authorize the government to make judgments based on those assumptions, we’re in dangerous territory. At Minding the Campus, [...]

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Washington Bars Racial Preferences…Twice

June 7, 2010

This is strange. Last month, state education officials in Washington asked for public comments on how to implement House Bill 3026, which bars government school districts from discriminating based on race and other factors. But voters have spoken on this issue. In 1998, 58 percent passed I-200, which barred the state from discriminating against or [...]

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Phoenix Preferences Program Spawned Political Favors

June 2, 2010

Last week I blogged about the Phoenix city council’s intent to change its 17-year-old Minority, Women, and Small Business Enterprise Program, to remove race and sex from the city contract equation. The city will set aside up to 10 percent of government contracts for small businesses, regardless of owners’ race or sex. Officials said the [...]

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Racially Restrictive Covenants

June 2, 2010

Echoing yesterday’s post, should a homeowner be allowed to sell his property to only whites? A “Caucasian Only” real estate advertisement has created a buzz in Massachusetts. A holdover from Jim Crow, the covenant stipulates that the property “shall not be sold, leased or rented to any person other than of the Caucasian race or [...]

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Good and Bad Discrimination

June 1, 2010

Libertarian Rand Paul, the Republican nominee for a Kentucky U.S. Senate seat, stirred the race relations pot last week when he made supposedly controversial statements about the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Paul said that although he would have voted for the law and doesn’t support repealing it, he takes issue with the section that [...]

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