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	<title>American Civil Rights Institute Blog &#187; MCRI</title>
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	<description>&#34;Race has no place in American Life or Law&#34;</description>
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		<title>BAMN Challenges MCRI&#8230;Again</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:30:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>La Shawn Barber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative (MCRI), the sixth circuit court of appeals is hearing arguments today in Cincinnati in suits filed by the pro-racial preferences group By Any Means Necessary (BAMN) and its allies challenging the MCRI.
In 2006, 58 percent of voters passed MCRI (as Proposal 2), which barred Michigan from discriminating against [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foul in Flint: Jury Says City Discriminated Against White Officer</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:06:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>La Shawn Barber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michigan Live reports that a jury found race was a factor when the former mayor appointed four black men and one woman (bypassing typical promotion procedures) to a special unit. A white officer sued, and a jury awarded him $131,000 in damages.
Plaintiff&#8217;s attorney Glen Lenhoff said, &#8220;We feel it&#8217;s wrong when [a black American] is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Michigan College May Be Violating the Law</title>
		<link>http://www.acri.org/blog/2008/10/02/michigan-college-may-be-violating-the-law/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 18:33:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>La Shawn Barber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I read an article this morning titled &#8220;Diversity Grows.&#8221; It sounded promising:
&#8220;Michigan&#8217;s ban on affirmative action has hurt minority recruiting at some colleges, but Saginaw Valley State University isn&#8217;t among them…By using focused recruiting and special scholarships as tools, SVSU has increased its share of under-represented minorities &#8212; blacks, Hispanics and American Indians &#8212; by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is the Michigan Department of Transportation Breaking the Law?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:30:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>La Shawn Barber</dc:creator>
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In 2006, 58 percent of Michigan voters chose to bar their state government from preferring members of one group over another based on race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin. Despite several challenges, the constitutional amendment still stands.
The Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) is a state government entity, which means it falls under the purview [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Missouri State U Seeks to &#8216;Promote Ethnic Diversity&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:23:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>La Shawn Barber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Nietzel, president of Missouri State University, released his annual campus report for 2008, and one of his proposals is to &#8220;promote ethnic diversity&#8221; on campus. (Source)
Ethnic diversity is not an unworthy goal, but when efforts to increase diversity involve discriminating against one ethnic group in favor of another (and lowering standards for one group [...]]]></description>
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