Investigate The Investigators!
Craig DeRoche, the Speaker of the House in Michigan, and Chris Ward, the majority floor leader, have just sent a letter to the Michigan Attorney General requesting a formal investigation and audit of the Michigan Civil Rights Commission. The Michigan Civil Rights Commission has joined with One United Michigan (the chairman even held a fund-raiser […]
A Second Bite In The Behind/Shot In The Foot?
I have complained here more than once about the shameless Republican hypocrisy of co-operating with the Democrats in creating “majority/minority” districts. These districts are created by cramming enough blacks into a district to elect a black representative; this usually involves “bleaching” the surrounding districts, making them more Republican. As Roger Clegg and Edward Blum pointed […]
Money, Test Scores, Grades
On Back to School night several years ago, when daughter Jessie was beginning her first year in middle school (she’s now in graduate school, but her sixth grade year was not as long ago as one might think), her new principal proudly announced that as a result of a reform of the school’s grading system […]
“Diversity” As Exploitation
By now everyone here is probably familiar with UCLA law prof Richard Sander’s argument (supported by copious evidence) that preferential admissions actually reduces the number of black lawyers (by inducing them to attend highly competitive schools where they drop out in large numbers). If not, look here, here, here, and here for starters. Sander’s argument […]
What’s Fair?
I have complained here a number of times (most recently earlier today) about “the transformation of ‘civil rights’ from its traditional concern with individual rights to the newer belief in group rights….” It should come as no surprise that at the core of the debate over the proper meaning of “civil rights” is a disagreement […]
MCRI Would Not Ban “Affirmative Action”
I have pointed out here many times that the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative would not ban affirmative action. Now Roger Clegg does so, at length and compellingly, in the Detroit Free Press: When the term was first used in the civil rights context — in an executive order signed by President John Kennedy in 1961 […]
“Diversity” Double Standard?
I used to say that if Bill Clinton became a hypocrite, it would represent a big improvement. (To be a hypocrite, you have to believe something while acting or speaking as though you don’t, and I was not sure that Clinton actually believed anything.) Similarly, I’m tempted to say that diversiphiles have a double standard, […]
The “Bloody Shirt” Still Waves…
For a generation after the Civil War northern Republicans “waved the bloody shirt” to remind voters that the Democrats were all disloyal sympathizers with the South. The modern equivalent is for northern liberals, now Democrats, to accuse all Republicans of being sympathizers with the South, and thus racist. A perfect example is this column, “Bigotry […]
Unbalanced
In Busing Without (For Now?) The Buses, I discussed the Supremes’ decision to review racial school assignment cases from Louisville and Seattle, even though it had recently (with O’Connor, without Roberts or Alito) refused to hear a similar appeal from Lynn, Mass. (discussed here). Now comes the New York Times, with a long article yesterday, […]
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