Ward Connerly

Ward Connerly on Harry Reid’s Comments

January 12, 2010

If you’ve been living in a Wi-Fi-bereft cave for the last few days, you probably missed the Harry Reid uproar. The senator said something rather innocuous about our biracial president during the campaign. He described Barack Obama as a “light-skinned” black man with “with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.” As expected, [...]

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Matt Waters on Ending Racial Preferences

January 7, 2010

Matt Waters writes about the American Civil Rights Institute‘s Ward Connerly on Townhall. “Thirteen years ago one man challenged the political establishment—of both parties—and won,” Waters writes. “His issue? Ending racial preferences. The man? Ward Connerly. Connerly, a Sacramento-based businessman, made the case why all Americans, black and white, should oppose racial preferences. At their [...]

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Ward Connerly on the UC System

December 9, 2009

As you probably read, the University of California system (UC) raised fees by 32 percent for fall 2010 admissions. The American Civil Rights Institute‘s Ward Connerly, a former UC regent, says he voted against proposals to raise fees for students during his tenure. “But with each vote I realized that UC was slowly moving toward [...]

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Ward Connerly on Holistic Admissions

November 3, 2009

The American Civil Rights Institute‘s Ward Connerly was quoted in a New York Times article about “holistic” or comprehensive admissions. According to the story, holistic or comprehensive admissions supposedly allows officials “the luxury of thoughtfully knitting together a multitalented student body as well as a diverse one” by looking beyond grades and scores. In less [...]

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Racial Quota in California Contracting

October 26, 2009

California legislators ought to carry a copy of the state constitution in their pockets and refer to it when writing laws. It’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: “The State shall not [...]

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Ward Connerly Goes to Arizona

October 14, 2009

The American Civil Rights Institute‘s Ward Connerly is headed to the University of Arizona to talk about the Arizona Civil Rights Initiative (AzCRI) on October 28, from 4-5:30 p.m. See this page for more details. The 2008 effort to add AzCRI to the state ballot failed after the campaign ran out of time to validate [...]

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Asian Discrimination at Elites

October 12, 2009

Americans of Asian descent account for about 12 percent of California’s population, yet they account for 40 percent of all undergraduates at the University of California at Los Angeles, 43 percent at Berkeley, 50 percent at San Diego, and 54 percent at Irvine. The American Civil Rights Institute‘s (ACRI) Ward Connerly has written about UC’s [...]

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‘To Argue the Essential Weakness of His Own People’

August 5, 2009

Last month, a federal judge ruled that New York City’s Fire Department (FDNY) discriminated against blacks and Hispanics with its recruitment exam. The court contended that paper-and-pencil tests given from 1999 to 2007 unfairly excluded minority recruits. (Source) In plain-speak, it means blacks and Hispanics performed disproportionately poorly on the exam. In 2007, the Department [...]

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Ward Connerly Says…

August 3, 2009

The American Civil Rights Institute‘s Ward Connerly was recently quoted in several news stories. Examples below. Commenting on the Henry Louis Gates story, Connerly said, “We’ve reached a point where white males are saying, ‘We’ve done all that we need to do in terms of treating black people with kid gloves and giving them deference. [...]

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Ward Connerly on Ricci

July 16, 2009

The American Civil Rights Institute‘s Ward Connerly penned an op-ed for the Christian Science Monitor about Ricci v. DeStefano. “Discrimination in employment on the basis of race, sex, skin color, ethnicity, or national origin is a violation of the 1964 Civil Rights Act,” he writes. “Yet that fact seems to either go unnoticed or is [...]