Barack Obama

Preferences, Barack Obama, and Sarah Palin

October 20, 2008

[E]nding preferences will allow minorities and women to take the full credit for their accomplishments. One of the reasons I advocate doing away with race and sex preferences is to allow minorities and women to achieve on their own merits. Even if individual blacks and women are admitted or hired based on grades, scores, skills, [...]

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John McCain’s Lukewarm Support for Anti-Preferences Initiatives

October 7, 2008

Ward Connerly is right. John McCain, Republican presidential nominee, “tepidly endorsed” the Arizona Civil Rights Initiative (AzCRI), a measure that would have barred state and local governments from discriminating or granting preferences in hiring, contracting, and admissions in his home state. “Although he supports the initiatives,” Connerly told the Associated Press, “I believe he would [...]

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