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If you’ve had the misfortune of sitting through workplace “diversity training” sessions, you know how eye-rollingly pointless they can be. The diversity training idea stems from a former teacher named Jane Elliott, who required her all-white class to participate in role-playing exercises. Groups were separated by eye color. The first day, the blues were treated [...]

In “Assessing the Impact of Eliminating Affirmative Action in Higher Education,” Jessica S. Howell of California State University, Sacramento, acknowledges that declines in minority representation at colleges and universities in California and Texas, states that bar the government from discriminating against or preferring individuals or groups based on race in hiring, contracting, and admissions, have [...]

The Washington Times editorializes about racially discriminatory provisions in the health care reform bill (see our previous coverage here): “Not only are these provisions morally suspect, but they also fly in the face of recent (and wise) Supreme Court precedent. Even in the one recent case where the high court did allow limited racial preferences, [...]

Back in August, I blogged about racial preferences provisions (and wrote about them in a Townhall column) in the House of Representatives’s version of the health care reform bill. Found on page 881 of a bill of over 1,000 pages, for example: “In awarding grants or contracts under this section, the Secretary shall give preference [...]