Roger Clegg

Op Writer Confuses Racial Preferences With ‘Civil Rights’

November 30, 2010

You may recall that lawmakers in Utah are considering a measure to bar government racial preferences and discrimination in the state. Preferences supporter and writer Barb Guy not only seems new to the “affirmative action” debate, she descends into ad hominem “debating” her position. She writes in “Outsider confusing anti-affirmative action with civil rights”: “Let’s [...]

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Roger Clegg Responds to NYT

November 30, 2010

In a New York Times article, columnist Charles Blow said he was worried that denying racism “may be the new normal,” and that such denials will impede our progress to racial reconciliation. He commences the our-discrimination-is-bigger-than-yours assault and asks for proof that whites face discrimination on the level that blacks faced. Blow apparently doesn’t consider [...]

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Roger Clegg on the Arizona Civil Rights Initiative

November 4, 2010

Responding to Proposition 107 opponents’ claim that racial preferences don’t exist in Arizona, the Center for Equal Opportunity’s (CEO) Roger Clegg revisits his reports on the University of Arizona and Arizona State University law schools in an article on Minding the Campus. Among other things, the reports showed that both law schools discriminate against white [...]

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Roger Clegg on School Discipline Disparate Impact

October 22, 2010

The Center for Equal Opportunity‘s Roger Clegg penned an op-ed for the Washington Times about disparate impact in school discipline. Black students are more likely to be disciplined by schools than white students. If black children are treated differently because of their race, that would be a problem. But we know that’s not the case. [...]

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Perceptions

October 20, 2010

One of the consequences of racial preferences is how people perceive racial minorities. Even if a minority were hired or admitted without regard to race, for example, the use of preferences in the hiring or admissions process leads others to believe the minority was hired or admitted in part because of race and held to [...]

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UA President: We Will Continue Using Preferences

September 28, 2010

Why would a race-neutral admissions policy discourage racial minorities from applying to the University of Arizona (UA)? UA president Robert Shelton thinks Proposition 107, which would bar the state from discriminating against or granting preferences to individuals or groups in employment, education, and contracting based on race, would do just that. Shelton said, presumably with [...]

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Legacy and Racial Preferences

September 23, 2010

Two major differences between legacy preferences and racial preferences are: 1) legacy preferences are racially neutral, although they might have a disparate impact on certain racial minorities; 2) the former are legal. Granting special treatment to children of alumni isn’t illegal; discriminating against individuals based on skin color is illegal. Richard D. Kahlenberg of the [...]

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Roger Clegg on Arizona’s Proposition 107

September 21, 2010

The Center For Equal Opportunity‘s Roger Clegg, blogging at National Review Online’s The Corner, writes: “Glad to see John Hood’s helpful list, and especially happy to see the Arizona Civil Rights Initiative on that list. Proposition 107 will ban discrimination and preferences on the basis of race, ethnicity, and sex in state and local contracting, [...]

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U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Racial Disparities Panel

September 15, 2010

Yesterday, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights held a panel discussion about race and racial disparities titled, “A New Era: Defining Civil Rights in the 21st Century.” Speakers included the Center for Equal Opportunity‘s Roger Clegg, a frequent subject on the ACRI blog; Heather Mac Donald, who writes for the City Journal; and columnist William [...]

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Roger Clegg on Colorblind Justice

August 13, 2010

From Roger Clegg, president and general counsel of the Center for Equal Opportunity: “This year, the Justice Department filed an amicus brief that aggressively defended the University of Texas’ use of racial and ethnic preferences in its undergraduate admissions. (That case was argued last week.) More recently, evidence has surfaced that the administration weighed race [...]