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	<description>&#34;Race has no place in American Life or Law&#34;</description>
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		<title>DOJ: South Philly Asian Discrimination Claim Has Merit</title>
		<link>http://www.acri.org/blog/2010/08/31/doj-south-philly-asian-discrimination-claim-has-merit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:44:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>La Shawn Barber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this year, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) filed suit against the Philadelphia School District, alleging &#8220;deliberate and discriminatory indifference&#8221; after groups of mostly blacks students at South Philadelphia High School (designated &#8220;persistently dangerous&#8221;) beat up students of Asian descent.
Although the district suspended about 10 students, the AALDEF claimed the school [...]]]></description>
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		<title>American Civil Rights Foundation Drops Suit Against LA Schools</title>
		<link>http://www.acri.org/blog/2010/08/26/american-civil-rights-foundation-drops-suit-against-la-schools/</link>
		<comments>http://www.acri.org/blog/2010/08/26/american-civil-rights-foundation-drops-suit-against-la-schools/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 19:35:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>La Shawn Barber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The American Civil Rights Foundation (ACRF) has dropped a lawsuit against the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) after it dropped a race-based teacher assignment and transfer policy as part of a settlement. (Source)
Ward Connerly, spokesman for ACRF and president of the American Civil Rights Institute, said the race-based practice &#8220;grossly shortchanges the taxpayers, not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Liberal Who Gets It</title>
		<link>http://www.acri.org/blog/2010/08/26/a-liberal-who-gets-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 16:43:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>La Shawn Barber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m surprised there aren&#8217;t more articles on the web like this one. The New American Foundation&#8217;s Michael Lind, who used to be conservative but converted to liberalism, argues that racial preferences are wrong. The most important part of his article is in bold:
The diversity theory is now invoked by university administrations to justify informal racial [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Reverse&#8217; Racial Discrimination in Syracuse</title>
		<link>http://www.acri.org/blog/2010/08/10/reverse-racial-discrimination-in-syracuse/</link>
		<comments>http://www.acri.org/blog/2010/08/10/reverse-racial-discrimination-in-syracuse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 22:23:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>La Shawn Barber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like other cities, Syracuse operates under a consent decree, which stipulates that the city must hire a certain percentage of minority firefighters and police officers. 
Would it shock you to know I think such mandates are ridiculous as well as racially discriminatory?
By the way, I put the word reverse in quotations marks, because there&#8217;s no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MD Lawmaker Introduces Anti-Preferences Resolution</title>
		<link>http://www.acri.org/blog/2010/07/28/md-lawmaker-introduces-anti-preferences-resolution/</link>
		<comments>http://www.acri.org/blog/2010/07/28/md-lawmaker-introduces-anti-preferences-resolution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:24:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>La Shawn Barber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A county commissioner in Frederick County, Maryland, seeks to end government racial discrimination. John L. Thompson, running as a delegate to the Maryland General Assembly, introduced a proposal to demand a constitutional amendment to eliminate racial preferences in state government.
The Frederick News Post reports the measure is based on California&#8217;s successful Proposition 209, which barred [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beware the White Influx!</title>
		<link>http://www.acri.org/blog/2010/07/28/beware-the-white-influx/</link>
		<comments>http://www.acri.org/blog/2010/07/28/beware-the-white-influx/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:16:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>La Shawn Barber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Beware of the white influx in Chicago&#8217;s selective government schools!
Sources report that Chicago Public Schools (CPS) is using a new admissions plan, one that replaces skin color with socioeconomic status. As a result, elite schools in the district are seeing an increase of white students. Although some sources say the level of racial diversity will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Resegregation&#8217; Protesters</title>
		<link>http://www.acri.org/blog/2010/07/22/resegregation-protesters/</link>
		<comments>http://www.acri.org/blog/2010/07/22/resegregation-protesters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:44:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>La Shawn Barber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In March, the Wake County School Board in Wake Country, North Carolina, voted 5-4 to end a busing policy that sent kids to schools outside their neighborhoods, a scheme that was unpopular among parents.
According to media reports, discussions at the school board meeting  were &#8220;heated&#8221; and &#8220;tense.&#8221; At least three men were arrested, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Racial Madness</title>
		<link>http://www.acri.org/blog/2010/07/14/racial-madness/</link>
		<comments>http://www.acri.org/blog/2010/07/14/racial-madness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 18:58:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>La Shawn Barber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Peter Wood, of the National Association of Scholars, wrote a piece about the Association of American Law Schools&#8217;s (AALS) recent race-focused workshop, in which the group outlined some rather incoherent ideas of the &#8220;unfairness-in-the-name-of-fairness&#8221; sort. But first, an excerpt from Wood&#8217;s preface:
&#8220;In the decades since, we have watched the rise of a racial preference industry, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arizona&#8217;s Proposition 107</title>
		<link>http://www.acri.org/blog/2010/07/13/arizonas-proposition-107/</link>
		<comments>http://www.acri.org/blog/2010/07/13/arizonas-proposition-107/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:21:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>La Shawn Barber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Racial preferences opponents in Arizona attempted to put language on the November 2008 ballot to amend the state constitution to bar their government from discriminating against or granting preferences to individuals based on race in government employment, education, or contracting. Unfortunately, they didn&#8217;t collect enough signatures to qualify.
Senator Russell Pearce, who authored Arizona&#8217;s SB 1070, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Racial Preferences in Financial Regulation Bill</title>
		<link>http://www.acri.org/blog/2010/07/13/racial-preferences-in-financial-regulation-bill/</link>
		<comments>http://www.acri.org/blog/2010/07/13/racial-preferences-in-financial-regulation-bill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 20:42:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>La Shawn Barber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of weeks ago I heard a rumor that politicians were attempting to insert racial preferences into the financial regulation bill. As it turns out, the facts have been confirmed. Included in the bill are provisions to authorize the creation of &#8220;Offices of Minority and Women Inclusion&#8221; in new financial regulatory offices.
From John Rosenberg&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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