Dupes Day In Court, Again

Once again, some Michiganders who claim they believed a proposal

to ban affirmative action programs that give preferential treatment to groups or individuals based on their race, gender, color, ethnicity or national origin for public employment, education or contracting purposes

was actually a proposal to protect affirmative action are back in court, trying to persuade a judge — this time a federal judge, all similar efforts in a series of Michigan state courts having failed — to prevent the citizens of Michigan from deciding whether or not they want to maintain racial preferences.

Shame on them.

UPDATE [21 Aug.]

George Roberts attended the court session, and has much more on the dupes day in court here. Among the dupes, by the way, were Jennifer Granholm, governor of Michigan, and Kwame Kilpatrick (the George Wallace soundalike), the mayor of Detroit.

Roberts emphasizes the essential racism of the dupes’ argument to keep MCRI off the ballot. “Essentially,” he writes, their argument

is that black people can’t be trusted to know what they are signing…. [They] argued that virtually none of the 120,000 signatures that came from black-majority cities like Detroit were valid because black people essentially agree with affirmative action and so all signatures from a black city must be from black people and they would never sign such a thing so they should all be removed.

Ironically, this purported to be an argument that allowing MCRI on the ballot would be a violation of the Voting Rights Act.

It’s a shame the press hasn’t been more responsible by reporting this idiocy.

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  1. K August 18, 2006 at 11:53 pm | | Reply

    Interesting. We were tricked?

    Such an assertion should have been settled in state court.

    What is the federal issue?

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