Gov. Granholm Denigrates The Women Of Michigan
At a recent “summit” of “women’s leaders” in Michigan, the assembled ladies were united in support of the continuation of preferences to … themselves. Gov. Jennifer Granholm told the summiteers that equality was a threat to Michigan women. “There is no question,” she said, “that the elimination of affirmative action programs in our state would […]
New Report Urges Both Race And Sex Discrimination
The Chronicle of Higher Education reports today that a new study by a black think tank criticizes all institutions of higher learning — but especially flagship state universities — for failing to enroll enough black men and failing to graduate enough who do enroll. The report, “Black Male Students at Public Flagship Universities in the […]
Blueprint For Racial Hiring
For a window into contemporary, post-Grutter strategies and strategems for dressing up racial hiring in attire that is sufficiently presentable (while camouflaging the true racial purpose) to pass Supreme Court muster, there is no better place to look than an article in today’s Chronicle of Higher Education, “When Seeking a Diverse Faculty, Watch Out for […]
UPDATE II
See the second UPDATE to this post for the second, and somewhat more satisfactory, reply of the Washington Post ombudsman to my criticism of its defamatory photograph caption.
One Hmong Many…
As social movements age their intellectual arteries begin to harden and long-dormant contradictions begin to manifest themselves. The civil rights movement, which throughout most of its history argued for universal human rights, has in its old age declined into a racial interest group trying to protect assorted preferences based on race and ethnicity. This reversal […]
UPDATE
In this post several days ago I complained about a vicious charge in a caption to a picture of Rep. Ann Northrup (R, Ky) — that she was preparing “to slime” her opponent — that the authors of the accompanying Washington Post article studiously, and fairly, did not make. See the UPDATE to my post […]
Another Racially Exclusive Program Challenged
According to an article by Peter Schmidt in today’s Chronicle of Higher Education, “Advocacy Group Challenges Program for Minority Journalists as Discriminatory,” a lawsuit has been filed against yet another racially exclusive academic program. The Center for Individual Rights, which has been a leader in the fight against affirmative action, alleges that the Virginia Commonwealth […]
Do Women Want Equality?
I ask whether or not women want equality because the shrill opposition to the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative by women leaders there suggests that, at least for women leaders, the answer is no. First, let me reprise a bit of history from this post several months ago: One of the oldest, and most interesting, conflicts […]
Benn There, Done That
Recently I have had (or at least taken) several opportunities to mention a new book by Walter Benn Michaels, The Trouble With Diversity, that criticizes the new fetish for “diversity,” and its sibling, multiculturalism, from the left. (See here, here, and here.) Michaels’s book is getting, and is likely to continue to get, so much […]
Will Weighs In On MCRI
George Will has an excellent column on the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative in tomorrow’s (Sunday’s) Washington Post. It begins with this … DETROIT — A feisty 29-year-old white woman and a pugnacious 67-year-old black man are performing two services this autumn for Michigan and the nation. Their Michigan Civil Rights Initiative (MCRI) is promoting colorblind […]
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