Center for Equal Opportunity

Model Racial Preferences Brief

August 5, 2010

The Pacific Legal Foundation‘s Sharon Browne and the Center for Equal Opportunity‘s Roger Clegg have created a model brief (31 pages PDF) for contractors and subcontractors who’ve been shut out of government contracts because of racial preferences. Preferences proponents typically cite sentiment over the law to justify government discrimination. Black American’s ancestors were slaves, and [...]

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Center for Equal Opportunity Supports AZ Civil Rights Initiative

July 26, 2010

Proposition 107, which would bar the government from discriminating against or granting preferences to individuals or groups on the basis on race in government employment, contracting, and education, will appear on the November 2010 ballot in Arizona. The Center for Equal Opportunity (CEO) will submit a formal statement to the Arizona secretary of state in [...]

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Roger Clegg: Race Preferences Foster Resentment

February 4, 2009

The Center for Equal Opportunity‘s Roger Clegg has an op-ed in the Philadelphia Inquirer on race preferences. He identifies at least two impediments to improving race relations: racial bias and discrimination, and the disproportionate number of blacks at the bottom rungs of the socioeconomic ladder. For the most part, America has dealt with bias and [...]

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Roger Clegg v. Jay Rosner

January 28, 2009

More brilliance from the Center for Equal Opportunity‘s Roger Clegg as he goes head-to-head in a comment thread with Jay Rosner, responding to his convince-me-racism-doesn’t-matter straw man: “[N]o one believes that racial discrimination has vanished, that race does not matter. But there are better ways to fight it than giving preferential treatment to individuals who [...]

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Why Do Black Students Lag Behind Peers?

January 14, 2009

Why do black students lag behind their peers? There are plenty of theories and debates on the topic. Some say it’s the culture. Others say it’s in the genes. Still others blame poverty. Regardless of the reason, the question is, what, if anything, can the education system do about it? One “solution” has been to [...]

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Obama America: Good for Blacks?

November 6, 2008

National Review Online asked a group of center-right thinkers if they believe Obama’s election is “good for blacks.” The American Civil Rights Institute’s Ward Connerly said yes it is, in the sense that blacks have arrived as first class citizens of a country that once enslaved and degraded them because of skin color. An Obama [...]

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Discrimination at the University of Nebraska Law School

October 9, 2008

When it comes to being admitted into the University of Nebraska’s law school, the odds favor blacks over whites 442 to 1. Odds favor Hispanics 90 to 1. The Center for Equal Opportunity (CEO) released a new study that documents cases of “severe discrimination” in law school admissions. Among the 2006 and 2007 entering classes, [...]

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Arizona Public Law Schools Discriminating Based on Race

October 2, 2008

Yesterday the Center for Equal Opportunity (CEO) released two reports that show law schools at the University of Arizona and Arizona State University, both supported by taxpayers, discriminate against white and Asian applicants in favor of blacks and Hispanics. The studies describe the discrimination as “severe.” Black and Hispanic students are admitted with “significantly lower [...]

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