Affirmative action may be on ballots

[DesertFox]

A campaign is underway to ban affirmative action in five states already embroiled in debates over illegal immigration.

Efforts are proceeding in Arizona, Colorado, Missouri, Nebraska and Oklahoma to put initiatives on November ballots that would end programs to increase minority and female participation in government and education.

The push is led by Ward Connerly, a California management consultant who successfully ran similar campaigns in California, Washington and Michigan.

It is part of Connerly's effort to ban race- and gender-based policies nationwide.

More (http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/2007-12-27-affirmative-action_N.htm)

[Beowulf]

A campaign is underway to ban affirmative action in five states already embroiled in debates over illegal immigration.

It is part of Connerly's effort to ban race- and gender-based policies nationwide.




GOOD!!

[Neil Peart]

Hopefully this will eventually lead to the abolition of that disgusting practice.

Connerly says he believes in affirmative action if it is based on socioeconomic conditions, not gender or race.
Though you can't win 'em all.

[irknow1]

The push is led by Ward Connerly, a California management consultant who successfully ran similar campaigns in California, Washington and Michigan

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I could be mistaken here but was it not the University of Michigan that
was using skin color as a basis for admission? Has this practice been
abolished by them? If not, then would it be fair to say that Mr. Connerly
did not actually realize a success in Michigan?

As I said, I may be wrong here, but it seems to me that I remember
the University of Michigan being embroiled in this debate...............

SIDEBAR: whatever happened to believing in Dr. King's wonderful
"I have a dream" speach? The cornerstone of that speech
being the statement (paraphrased--------"I dream of a day
when my children shall not be judged for the color of their
skin but the content of their character....").

I have to wonder if Dr. King would approve of affirmitive action?

I. R. Know 1

[Forget_the_Truth]

AA has to be eliminated, its time is done

society isnt a big racist mass anymore nor are women "oppressed" (infact a woman who chooses to be a loyal wife and Mom gets more hassle nowadays)

AA has to go, as it sees race/gender itself, rather than American people

we should all have equal chances, id want to make it by working hard at something, rather than being a certain "race" or a female

[PrezLeefun]

Agreed FTT.

[DesertFox]

If AA goes, it will be almost exclusively to the one-man efforts of Connerly, who is a modern American hero in my book. He has suffered as much abuse as Clarence Thomas but without the historical standing, and has done all his work largely on his own dime and strictly at his own initiative.

[Forget_the_Truth]

well AA only seemed to be started to appease militant "minoritys" and feminists anyway, who arent nice people and only wanted more power for their "group" than to be equal

genuine people who wanted equal rights surelly would be disgusted by it

[Maggie_T]

Quite true.

A for the blight of AA going away, I'll believe it when I see it. And I would give ANYTHING to see it happen.

[Jag Wife]

I read the language on the Washington ballot when it came up more than 10 years ago. It was plain as day: No person shall be given preference because of, or be denied because of, race, gender, etc., etc., etc. I don't even have a college degree, and I understood that plain as day. Did you?

The AA bots said it was "too confusing." Uh yeah. Right.

[DesertFox]

Ah, but you're supposed to read such things with the glasses of political correctness firmly in place.

[DeclinetoState]

Ted Kennedy was in favor of efforts to get rid of AA till he found out AA didn't refer here to "Alcoholics Anonymous."

(Yeah, I've used that one before. . .)

[DesertFox]

Ah, you've used that one before

[DoctorDoom]

Kennedrunk has no dealings with AA. He damned well isn't anonymous.