Like many of you, I suspect, I’ve put off diving into the debate over CRECNO, the California initiative sponsored by Ward Connerly to end Classification by Race, Ethnicity, Color, or National Origin. As mentioned in posts below, that initiative was originally scheduled for appearance on the Calif. ballot in March 2004 but now will appear on October 7 along with the Davis recall.
So, we can’t put off considering it any longer. The debate is more interesting than many may suspect, in large part because some prominent critics have been leaders in the fight against racial preferences, most notably Tom Wood, one of the co-sponsors of Proposition 209.
I will be weighing in on this matter as the campaign develops, but meanwhile you all should not only visit but bookmark Tom Wood’s invaluable site, AADAP, which has an archive and daily updates on this and other discrimination-related matters. Just go there and start reading; the column on the right has CRECNO material, both for and against.
More later.
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you will find at the bottom of reasoning for everyone who wants to be recognized that there is a need for service where there was no service before. Where people are outside of the mainstream of America and they know one of the reasons is race or ethni…