Please Keep This Up!
An article in the Madison, Wisconsin, Capital Times by columnist Joel McNally unwittingly provides a good example of why pro-preference forces are so unpopular and thus regularly lose elections. Here’s how it begins, which is all I’m going to quote from it since it’s all you need to know about what it says: Inviting Ward […]
A Ford In Your Past
Jeffrey Toobin has an OpEd in today’s New York Times highlighting, and singing the praises of, the instrumental role of former president Gerald Ford — with the assistance of his former House aide, James Cannon — in securing the brief by retired military officers supporting racial preferences that proved to be an important contribution to […]
6th Circuit Revives Prop. 2, Slams BAMN & Michigan Officials
In an unusually sharp rejection of the arguments for delaying implementation of Michigan’s Proposition 2 put forward by BAMN and three Michigan universities, a three judge panel of the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals has lifted the preliminary injunction ordered by U.S. District Court Judge David Lawson. The 6th Circuit opinion is very impressive, as […]
Race And Careers In Academia
Scott Jaschik’s column at InsideHigherEd today on the laments of minority scholars expressed at a panel of the Modern Language Association is a good example of something I’ve been noticing more and more: it’s getting harder and harder on many occasions to distinguish straight reporting from parody, comedy, or tragedy. Jaschik’s column is straight reporting, […]
Michigan Update
Judge David Lawson, the U.S. District Court judge hearing BAMN’s suit against Proposal 2, has allowed Eric Russell, represented by the Center for Individual Rights, to intervene in the case while denying intervention to the City of Lansing and to the two organizations, led by Ward Connerly and Jennifer Gratz, that led the campaign for […]
What Is “Desegregation”?
Those who defend assigning students to schools on the basis of their race argue that doing so is necessary in order to “desegregate” or to prevent “resegregation” or to provide a “racial balance” that more or less reflects the demography of the city. I wonder if any of those advocates have taken a look lately […]
The Anti-Equality Argument
The Michigan Citizen describes itself as “America’s Most Progressive Community Newspaper.” Insofar as “progressive,” unfortunately, has become a synonym for wacko, it may well be right, at least judging by this article on the fate of Proposition 2, the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative that amended the Michigan constitution to bar discrimination by state agencies on […]
An Old-Fashioned (But Not Old-Fashioned Enough) Liberal
John Bunzel — former president of San Jose State, former member of the Civil Rights Commission, current resident researcher at Stanford’s Hoover Institution — is an old-fashioned liberal. He is old-fashioned enough to have qualms about racial preferences, but liberal enough to support them. His OpEd today in the Sacramento Bee provides a good example […]
Pluribus E Unum
Goodwin Liu, the Berkeley law professor whose OpEd I criticized in the post immediately below, argued in that OpEd that “the idea that Brown prohibits ‘classification’ by race is profoundly revisionist.” Professor Liu may not be aware that “revisionist” is frequently a badge of honor worn by historians, who take great pride in correcting earlier […]
Racial Classification In Liu Of Colorblindness
Berkeley law professor Goodwin Liu argues in an OpEd today not only that Brown v. Board of Education “unambiguously” stands for the proposition that classifying and assigning students by race to achieve “integration” is constitutional but even that “[n]othing in the opinion establishes or suggests colorblindness as a legal principle.” I believe, you will not […]
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