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	<title>American Civil Rights Institute Blog &#187; Barack Obama</title>
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	<description>&#34;Race has no place in American Life or Law&#34;</description>
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		<title>Rachel Alexander on Obama-Era &#8220;Affirmative Action&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.acri.org/blog/2011/03/16/rachel-alexander-on-obama-era-affirmative-action/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 13:40:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rachel  Alexander, a great lady I used to write for at Intellectual Conservative many moons ago, penned an article about the president&#8217;s dedication to racial preferences in government. No doubt thinking about his own privileged upbringing, he went on record to say his daughters &#8220;should probably&#8221; be treated by admissions officers as the advantaged applicants [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Roger Clegg on Disparate Impact in SOTU</title>
		<link>http://www.acri.org/blog/2010/02/04/roger-clegg-on-disparate-impact-in-sotu/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:16:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last month, the Department of Justice sued New Jersey and its Civil Service Commission for using an exam that &#8220;discriminates&#8221; against blacks and Hispanics, because these groups scored &#8220;statistically significantly lower&#8221; than whites. Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez (pictured) said, &#8220;This complaint should send a clear message to all public employers that employment practices with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Civil Rights-Era VRA Section 5</title>
		<link>http://www.acri.org/blog/2009/09/30/ivil-rights-era-section-5-of-voting-rights-act/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:06:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One problem with legislation created during the civil rights era to protect blacks from discrimination is that its present-day application typically is condescending. For example, Georgia tried to protect the integrity of the voting process by requiring voters to present state-issued identification. I was under the impression that this was standard practice, but groups cried [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Washington Times on Thomas Perez</title>
		<link>http://www.acri.org/blog/2009/09/29/washington-times-on-thomas-perez/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:04:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lbarber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Washington Times recently published an editorial about Thomas Perez, Maryland&#8217;s secretary of labor and President Barack Obama&#8217;s nominee for assistant attorney general for the Justice Department&#8217;s Civil Rights Division. Focusing on his record on illegal immigration and comments on racial preferences, the Times writes: &#8220;[Perez] has served as president of the board of CASA [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ward Connerly Says…</title>
		<link>http://www.acri.org/blog/2009/08/03/ward-connerly-says%e2%80%a6/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 18:18:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lbarber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The American Civil Rights Institute&#8216;s Ward Connerly was recently quoted in several news stories. Examples below. Commenting on the Henry Louis Gates story, Connerly said, &#8220;We&#8217;ve reached a point where white males are saying, &#8216;We&#8217;ve done all that we need to do in terms of treating black people with kid gloves and giving them deference. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Wise Latina&#8217; Sotomayor Plugs Her Impartiality</title>
		<link>http://www.acri.org/blog/2009/07/14/wise-latina-sotomayor-plugs-her-impartiality/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:02:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lbarber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sonia Sotomayor faces a second day of questions posed by members of the Senate Judiciary Committee for confirmation to the Supreme Court. The &#8220;wise Latina&#8221; said she&#8217;d be an impartial judge, despite previous statements that indicate the contrary. &#8220;Many Senators have asked me about my judicial philosophy. It is simple: fidelity to the law. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Response to Ricci</title>
		<link>http://www.acri.org/blog/2009/07/09/obamas-response-to-ricci/</link>
		<comments>http://www.acri.org/blog/2009/07/09/obamas-response-to-ricci/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 11:28:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lbarber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like most liberal politicians, President Barack Obama supports race-based preferential treatment, although he calls it affirmative action, which it is not. We&#8217;ve explained on the blog several times what affirmative action is: widening the recruitment net to include qualified minorities historically left out of the process for whatever reason. Racial preferences are not affirmative action. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shelby Steele on Post-Racialism</title>
		<link>http://www.acri.org/blog/2009/06/10/shelby-steele-on-post-racialism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.acri.org/blog/2009/06/10/shelby-steele-on-post-racialism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:55:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lbarber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The indispensable Shelby Steele calls Barack Obama on his contradictory &#8220;post-racial&#8221; rhetoric and his penchant to play identity politics. He once called Obama&#8217;s post-racialism delusional. &#8220;Barack Obama seduced whites with a vision of their racial innocence precisely to coerce them into acting out of a racial motivation,&#8221; Steele wrote. Chilling, but true. In his latest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sonia Sotomayor: Obama&#8217;s &#8216;Wise Latina Woman&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.acri.org/blog/2009/05/26/sonia-sotomayor-obamas-wise-latina-woman/</link>
		<comments>http://www.acri.org/blog/2009/05/26/sonia-sotomayor-obamas-wise-latina-woman/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 20:55:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn&#8217;t lived that life. So says Sonia Sotomayor, President Barack Obama&#8217;s nominee for the Supreme Court. She said that a woman like herself would make better decisions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ward Connerly, Waiting in the Wings</title>
		<link>http://www.acri.org/blog/2009/02/11/ward-connerly-waiting-in-the-wings/</link>
		<comments>http://www.acri.org/blog/2009/02/11/ward-connerly-waiting-in-the-wings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:26:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lbarber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Victor Merina, a senior fellow at the USC Annenberg Institute for Justice and Journalism, has penned an article about the American Civil Rights Institute&#8216;s Ward Connerly, &#8220;who can match his multiracial background with the biracial Obama.&#8221; (Source) Merina, like so many others, uses the terms affirmative action and race preferences interchangeably, when they are not [...]]]></description>
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