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	<description>&#34;Race has no place in American Life or Law&#34;</description>
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		<title>&#8216;Racism&#8217; in the 21st Century</title>
		<link>http://www.acri.org/blog/2010/03/12/racism-in-the-21st-century/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:01:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>La Shawn Barber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the late 1960s, college students rioted and stormed administration buildings, protesting everything from the Vietnam War to freedom of speech violations to the paucity of black students, faculty and programs on campuses. If you were around then and thought some, most or all of those protests were over-the-top, you might want to add the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Always Lower, Never Higher</title>
		<link>http://www.acri.org/blog/2010/01/26/always-lower-never-higher/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:31:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>La Shawn Barber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One idea that transcends political lines is that blacks are inferior and should be held to lower standards in perpetuity.
In 2007, the Department of Justice (DOJ) under George W. Bush filed suit against the New York City Fire Department (FDNY) for violating the Civil Rights Act. The Vulcan Society, a fraternal organization of black firefighters, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Berkeley High&#8217;s &#8216;White&#8217; Science Labs</title>
		<link>http://www.acri.org/blog/2009/12/31/berkeley-highs-white-science-labs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 20:10:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>La Shawn Barber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Update (1/5/09): Nice Instapundit link to the Berkeley High article.
***
On international science tests, American students perpetually lag behind their peers in other developed countries. A logical response might be to beef up science programs in government schools, but logic is hard to come by in skin-deep-only-diversity-obsessed bureaucracies.
One school seeks to do the opposite, and for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Racial Quota in California Contracting</title>
		<link>http://www.acri.org/blog/2009/10/26/racial-quotas-in-california-contracting/</link>
		<comments>http://www.acri.org/blog/2009/10/26/racial-quotas-in-california-contracting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:59:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>La Shawn Barber</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ward Connerly]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[California legislators ought to carry a copy of the state constitution in their pockets and refer to it when writing laws. It&#8217;s a useful guide, laying out what the people have a right to do and what the government shall not do. For example, Article I, Section 31 reads in part: 
&#8220;The State shall not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Court: Race-Based Scholarships Unconstitutional</title>
		<link>http://www.acri.org/blog/2009/10/15/court-race-based-scholarships-unconstitutional/</link>
		<comments>http://www.acri.org/blog/2009/10/15/court-race-based-scholarships-unconstitutional/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:09:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>La Shawn Barber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thirteen years after California amended the state constitution to bar the government from discriminating against or preferring individuals or groups in admissions, contracting, and hiring, on the basis of race and sex, courts still are eradicating discriminatory provisions from the code. Proposition 209 passed with 54 percent of the vote.
Earlier this week, Sacramento Superior Court [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Racial Preferences By Any Other Name&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.acri.org/blog/2009/08/28/racial-preferences-by-any-other-name/</link>
		<comments>http://www.acri.org/blog/2009/08/28/racial-preferences-by-any-other-name/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:23:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>La Shawn Barber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Colleges and universities either prohibited by law from factoring race into admissions decisions, or those that prefer a subtler approach to admitting applicants based on race, do so by measuring personality, leadership qualities, life experiences, creativity, resilience, and other &#8220;noncognitive&#8221; factors. 
According to a story in the Wall Street Journal, some schools claim that using [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disparate Treatment and Disparate Impact Inconsistent</title>
		<link>http://www.acri.org/blog/2009/07/03/disparate-treatment-and-disparate-impact-inconsistent/</link>
		<comments>http://www.acri.org/blog/2009/07/03/disparate-treatment-and-disparate-impact-inconsistent/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:14:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>La Shawn Barber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An excerpt from my latest Townhall column:
&#8220;The problem began 38 years ago in a Supreme Court case called Griggs v. Duke Power Co. Black applicants disproportionately lacked required diplomas and/or failed the employment tests. The court held that for purposes of hiring, both requirements violated the Civil Rights Act. If an employment practice is &#8220;facially [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LA Times Changes Tune?</title>
		<link>http://www.acri.org/blog/2009/05/19/la-times-changes-tune/</link>
		<comments>http://www.acri.org/blog/2009/05/19/la-times-changes-tune/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 19:11:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>La Shawn Barber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know the times they are a-changing when the liberal Los Angeles Times implies it was unfair to deny white firefighters promotions on account of race.
Last month, the Supreme Court heard arguments in Ricci v. DeStefano, a case in which over a dozen white firefighters and one Hispanic filed suit against the city of New [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Berkeley&#8217;s Race-Based School Assignment Scheme</title>
		<link>http://www.acri.org/blog/2009/03/31/berkeleys-race-based-school-assignment-scheme/</link>
		<comments>http://www.acri.org/blog/2009/03/31/berkeleys-race-based-school-assignment-scheme/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:57:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>La Shawn Barber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It looks like another set of judges has found a way around the will of the people. 
In 1996, 54 percent of California voters said yes to Proposition 209, a constitutional amendment barring state and local governments from granting preferences to and discriminating against individuals or groups in public employment, public education, or public contracting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lowered Standards in New Haven</title>
		<link>http://www.acri.org/blog/2009/01/27/lowered-standards-in-new-haven/</link>
		<comments>http://www.acri.org/blog/2009/01/27/lowered-standards-in-new-haven/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:42:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>La Shawn Barber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New Haven firefighter Frank Ricci did what he was supposed to do. He bought the recommended books and studied for a promotion exam. Despite his dyslexia, Ricci scored high enough to qualify for a promotion, but the department threw out all test results. No blacks and only two Hispanics scored high enough to be promoted. [...]]]></description>
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