Ward Connerly

Ward Connerly Quoted Re: UCSD Diversity Story

August 2, 2010

The American Civil Rights Institute‘s Ward Connerly was quoted in a story about the diversity of transfer students to the University of California at San Diego (UCSD). From San Diego Union-Tribune: UCSD is set to receive a “record number” of transfer students mostly from community colleges, which will increase “diversity” on campus. The director of [...]

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Ward Connerly Quoted Re: NAACP

July 21, 2010

Michelle Malkin quoted the American Civil Rights Institute‘s Ward Connerly in a recent column about that nasty business with the NAACP accusing the tea party movement of racism: “The NAACP is a laughingstock…The group no longer represents the best interests of oppressed minorities, but the thin-skinned whims of the black elite and the ravenous appetite [...]

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UC Post-Proposition 209

July 20, 2010

Racial preferences opponents David Lehrer and Joe Hicks co-authored an op-ed for the Los Angeles Times, titled, “UC proves Prop. 209′s point.” “As proponents of Proposition 209 in 1996, we could only have hoped that the ‘underrepresented’ minorities at the center of the debate would ultimately be admitted to the UC — without preferences — [...]

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California Court Voids Quota Law

July 6, 2010

Although California’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 [...]

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Defend California’s Proposition 209

June 17, 2010

Earlier this year I blogged about the Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration, and Immigration Rights By Any Means Necessary (BAMN) filing a lawsuit challenging Proposition 209, approved by 54 percent of California voters in 1996. The law bars the state from granting preferences to or discriminating against individuals or groups based on race in [...]

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Ward Connerly on Arizona’s Immigration Law

May 21, 2010

“Although I am a resident of California, I spend a considerable amount of time in Arizona. In fact, over the past several months, I have commuted to Arizona on an almost weekly basis. “I have grown to love the state and its people. I find them to be friendly, fair and extraordinarily interested in America’s [...]

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Ward Connerly on the UCSD Controversy

April 28, 2010

An excerpt of a Minding the Campus article by the American Civil Rights Institute‘s Ward Connerly: “Although my years of service on the University of California (UC) Board of Regents were the most tumultuous years of my life, my pride in the Board and the university that it serves has, until now, never wavered. But, [...]

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‘One Florida’ Has Mixed Results

April 13, 2010

As you may recall, the One Florida Initiative was a reaction to Ward Connerly’s campaign to end government racial preferences in the state 10 years ago. Former Governor Jeb Bush issued an executive order to bar race-based preferences in government hiring, contracting, and admissions. (Hiring, contracting, and admitting individuals without regard to race seems a [...]

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Ward Connerly on False ‘Racist!’ Accusation

April 6, 2010

An excerpt of Ward Connerly’s post at the National Review’s The Corner blog: “The national debate about health-care insurance has underscored one indisputable fact: In every way imaginable — socially, ideologically, culturally, politically, and financially — the American public is profoundly divided. There is one area of division that is starker, more enduring, more contentious, [...]

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Ward Connerly to Review Students’ Race-Based Demands

March 8, 2010

I’m working on a column about the controversy brewing at UC San Diego since last month. A group of white UCSD students held an off-campus “ghetto” party that offended some blacks, and a student-run TV station used a racial slur. Consequently, the students have come up with a list of race-based “demands” for the school. [...]