Institutional racism supporters prepare to go to court
Published Mon, Nov 20 2006 1:25 PM
Technorati Tags: News and Politics, Courts, Multiculturalism and Intolerance, ACLU
The people of the State of Michigan voted overwhelmingly (58% in favor) to prohibit race and gender based preferences. Such preferences are on their face racist or sexist. In Saturday's Washington Post we find that officials in Michigan are still in denial.
"The proponents of this initiative packaged it and sold a bill of goods to Michigan voters, and played into the fears we have," said Linda Parker, director of the Michigan Department of Civil Rights, who said backers "deliberately racialized the issue." She is studying contracting rules and talking with California counterparts.
Gov. Jennifer M. Granholm (D) and her Republican opponent, businessman Dick DeVos, opposed Proposal 2, as did much of the state's government, business and civic elite.
They lost at the ballot box, so now they're going to attempt to have the courts overturn the will of the people. The so-called American Civil Liberties Union is helping to lead the charge...
The first attempt to block the new law in court was filed soon after the election, although courts have upheld a similar California law.
"There will be both offense lawsuits and defensive lawsuits filed to understand what this actually means for Michigan," said Kary L. Moss, executive director of the Michigan office of the American Civil Liberties Union. "I do think it's necessary for the courts to slow this thing down and . . . interpret some of the language."
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UM President Mary Sue Coleman vowed to fight on. At a rally the day after the votes were counted, she said she will consider "every legal option."
"I am standing here today to tell you that I will not allow this university to go down the path of mediocrity," Coleman said. "That is not Michigan. Diversity makes us strong, and it is too critical to our mission, too critical to our excellence and too critical to our future to simply abandon."
It seems to me that going down the path of mediocrity is exactly what the University of Michigan is doing. Jennifer Gratz sued the university in 2003 over their race-based preferences policy. Sadly she lost the case but the school made a strange argument...
To back the contention that Gratz did not suffer because of race, the university points out that 1,400 white and Asian students with lower grades or test scores than hers were admitted that year, while 2,000 whites and Asians with higher test scores were denied admission.
Can you explain to me how admitting students with lower grades and test scores will make the school stronger? It seems to me that the policy is upside down. If there's so much competition to get into the school shouldn't admissions be based on academic achievement?
Affirmative action policies are racist. People who believe that members of racial minorities can't succeed without a boost are perpetuating a racial stereotype and message of low expectations in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary. It's time that all race based preferences were ended.
It's time for the racists in the "civil rights" movement to start treating people of all races and national origins in a colorblind way. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had a dream. He said "I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but the content of their character....".
Affirmative action proponents have turned that dream on its head, and now it has become a nightmare.
Linked at Rightwing Guy.
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