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	<title>American Civil Rights Institute Blog &#187; Quotas</title>
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	<description>&#34;Race has no place in American Life or Law&#34;</description>
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		<title>California Court Voids Quota Law</title>
		<link>http://www.acri.org/blog/2010/07/06/court-agrees-quota-bill-unconstitutional/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 16:28:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>La Shawn Barber</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Pacific Legal Foundation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Quotas]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although California&#8217;s constitution bars the government from discriminating against or granting preferences to individuals or groups on the basis of race in government employment, education, or contracting, proponents of race-based policies still resist obeying the law.
Last October, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who swore to uphold the constitution, signed into law a bill that directs state departments [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Phoenix to End Race- and Sex-Based Set-Aside Program</title>
		<link>http://www.acri.org/blog/2010/05/19/phoenix-to-end-race-and-sex-based-set-aside-program/</link>
		<comments>http://www.acri.org/blog/2010/05/19/phoenix-to-end-race-and-sex-based-set-aside-program/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 18:38:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>La Shawn Barber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Contingent on city council approval, Phoenix will change its 17-year-old Minority, Women, and Small Business Enterprise Program, to remove race and sex from the city contract equation. Kudos to Phoenix.
Instead, the city will set aside up to 10 percent of government contracts for small businesses, regardless of owners&#8217; race or sex. (Source)
What prompted the change? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Racial Preferences Now and Forever</title>
		<link>http://www.acri.org/blog/2009/11/19/racial-preferences-now-and-forever/</link>
		<comments>http://www.acri.org/blog/2009/11/19/racial-preferences-now-and-forever/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:42:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>La Shawn Barber</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Diversity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Quotas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Finally, a racial preferences proponent admits, publicly, exactly what the policy is. James P. Sterba, author of Affirmative Action for the Future, says (emphasis added):
&#8220;Affirmative action is a policy of favoring qualified women, minority, or economically disadvantaged candidates over qualified men, nonminority or economically advantaged candidates respectively with the immediate goals of outreach, remedying discrimination, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It Might Be Affirmative Action If…</title>
		<link>http://www.acri.org/blog/2009/10/28/it-might-be-affirmative-action-if%e2%80%a6/</link>
		<comments>http://www.acri.org/blog/2009/10/28/it-might-be-affirmative-action-if%e2%80%a6/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:21:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>La Shawn Barber</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Diversity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Quotas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Socioeconomic AA]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;Ohio State University (OSU) intends to cast a &#8220;deeper and wider net&#8221; to admit more black students. Does this mean the school will lower standards to admit more black students? The former is commendable; the latter is known as racial preferences.
OSU is reaching out to black students in 15 inner-city high schools in select cities [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Column]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Judiciary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Quotas]]></category>
		<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>Roger Clegg Comments on Lani Guinier Article</title>
		<link>http://www.acri.org/blog/2009/07/15/roger-clegg-comments-on-lani-guinier-article/</link>
		<comments>http://www.acri.org/blog/2009/07/15/roger-clegg-comments-on-lani-guinier-article/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:54:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>La Shawn Barber</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Quotas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roger Clegg]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Lani Guinier, who said African immigrants should not receive racial preferences because they are not descendants of black American slaves, co-wrote an article in the New York Times with Susan Sturm, a fellow liberal law professor. Guinier was Bill Clinton&#8217;s nominee for Assistant Attorney General until her pro-quota views became known.
I echo what the Center [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Milwaukee Spends $350,000 on Set-Aside Study</title>
		<link>http://www.acri.org/blog/2009/06/23/milwaukee-spends-350000-on-set-aside-study/</link>
		<comments>http://www.acri.org/blog/2009/06/23/milwaukee-spends-350000-on-set-aside-study/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:24:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>La Shawn Barber</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Quotas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, will spend $350,000 figuring out how to award government contracts based on race and sex. 
According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, there&#8217;s a disparity in government contract awards between minority-owned businesses and the rest. And as we&#8217;ve been told thousands of times, disparities equal racism. 
The city had utilized racial-neutral [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Minneapolis Racial Quota Advocates Ready for Business</title>
		<link>http://www.acri.org/blog/2009/06/19/minneapolis-racial-quotas-advocates-ready-for-business/</link>
		<comments>http://www.acri.org/blog/2009/06/19/minneapolis-racial-quotas-advocates-ready-for-business/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:03:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>La Shawn Barber</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Quotas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Quota advocates are hoping the economic downturn stimulates more than just federal funding. They&#8217;re hoping to increase set-aside contracts.
The Federal Highway Administration recently approved the California Department of Transportation&#8217;s (Caltrans) racial quota plan. The reason? What else…money. The state&#8217;s so-called Disadvantaged Business Enterprise program saw a drop in minority business participation related to the economy. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LA County Fails to Reach Racial Spoils Goal</title>
		<link>http://www.acri.org/blog/2009/05/14/la-county-fails-to-reach-racial-spoils-goal/</link>
		<comments>http://www.acri.org/blog/2009/05/14/la-county-fails-to-reach-racial-spoils-goal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 13:56:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>La Shawn Barber</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Quotas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roger Clegg]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the comment section of an LAT blog article on racial quotas in Los Angeles County contracting, Roger Clegg asks, &#8220;Why do race, ethnicity, and sex need to be considered at all in deciding who gets awarded a contract?&#8221;
Apparently, the county is not reaching its minority contract set-aside goal of 25 percent. Since discriminating against [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ricci v. Perez</title>
		<link>http://www.acri.org/blog/2009/05/14/ricci-v-perez/</link>
		<comments>http://www.acri.org/blog/2009/05/14/ricci-v-perez/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 13:43:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>La Shawn Barber</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Judiciary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Quotas]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thomas Perez, President Barack Obama&#8217;s nominee for assistant attorney general for civil rights, the same man who believes medical schools should drop standards for black applicants because they&#8217;re more likely to work in &#8220;underserved&#8221; communities than white doctors, also believes in watering down firefighters recruitment tests.
The Center for Equal Opportunity&#8217;s Roger Clegg posted on The [...]]]></description>
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