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That means the original meaning of the 1964 Civil Rights Act--that racial discrimination of any kind is illegal--has won reaffirmation in three liberal states, none of which have voted for a Republican for president since 1988. Supporters now plan to carry the fight to other states.

“From the outraged cries of affirmative action diehards, you would think the dark night of fascism was descending with the passage of the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative.

Mary Sue Coleman is president of the University of Michigan, which has already spent millions of taxpayers’ dollars defending its racial preferences in courts.

She addressed what Tom Bray of the Detroit News called “a howling mob of hundreds of student and faculty protestors” last week.

“Diversity matters at Michigan,” she declared. “It matters today, and it will matter tomorrow.” Echoes of George Wallace, who in 1963 declared from the steps of Alabama’s Capitol: “I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.”

Ms. Coleman isn’t the only Michigan official to employ Wallace-style rhetoric against MCRI.

Detroit’s Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick told a fundraiser last April that the measure would usher in an era of racial prejudice.

“Bring it on!” he bellowed. “We will affirm to the world that affirmative action will be here today, it will be here tomorrow, and there will be affirmative action in the state forever.”

Another leader in Michigan’s massive resistance is Karen Moss, the executive director of the state ACLU.

“I do think it’s necessary for the courts to slow this thing down and . . . interpret some of the language,” she told the Washington Post.

That “thing” is an amendment that simply states: “The state shall not discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting.”
John Fund @ Opinion Journal

What part of that language does the ACLU find vague or unclear and in need of “interpretation’?”

Michigan´s College Basketball Coaches Say Proposal 2 is Bad for Michigan.

Hmmmm.....Jerry Mcquire??

They said that defeating Proposal 2 was critical to maintaining diversity on college campuses and ensuring a level playing field for all in Michigan.

Translated this means:we want an “unlevel basketball court.”

Tom Izzo, basketball coach at Michigan State University said, “I know what it takes to build a team, and that is diversity,” he added. “We need all kinds of players on our team.”

Yea right- like Chinese and Mexican students who can dunk.

Ernie Zeigler, head men’s basketball coach at Central Michigan University and former assistant coach at the University of California Los Angeles, told the group he knows first hand how important (Translated=show me the money!!) diversity and affirmative action is to college athletics.

One United Michigan steering committee co-chair Debbie Dingell said the coaches’ endorsements will have an impact on the election. “These are people who know about building a team that can succeed. When respected leaders like these say they oppose Proposal 2, it makes others think about this issue carefully. The more people know about how this proposal will impact Michigan, the more likely they are to vote No on Proposal 2.”

It didn’t have much impact at all as eveidenced by the victory of proposal 2 on the ballot.

When so-called Affirmative Action was stopped at University of California at Santa Barbara, the very next freshman class was found to be more racially diverse than previous classes had been.  The truth is that so-called Affirmative Action had mainly been used in CA to keep out the Asians, who represent many “racial groups”.  The admission by scholastic merit thus had many more Asians, who represented more “racial groups” than had been represented at UCSB before.  I striking example of how it takes a lot more than “good intentions” to accomplish anything worthwhile.  You actually have to do the right thing.

Hope and change, in a free world, are the private possessions of motivated individuals.

That should be: “A striking example...”

Hope and change, in a free world, are the private possessions of motivated individuals.

Institutional Racism

Critical race Theory in action

A Lethal professor with words that Kill