Clueless In Seattle
If it weren’t for the 46,000 remaining captive students for whom it is responsible, it would be hard to regard the Seattle school board as anything other than a bad joke. Indeed, it is so easy to ridicule the Seattle school board that I have done so on more than one occasion — most recently [...]
“Diversity” Chickens Come Home To Roost
I’ve written a number of times about how “diversity,” as I put it here, has become increasingly “un-American,” about “the awkward fact that a significantly high number of the beneficiaries of racial preference are foreigners.” (See, in addition, here, here, here, and here.) Shirley Wilcher, an early 1970s graduate of Mount Holyoke, looked around at [...]
“Diversity” = Proportional Representation
It is now so widely understood that “diversity” does not mean diversity that it’s hardly necessary to keep mentioning it. Such expressions as “How many diverse students are enrolled at X University?” and “what proportion of the staff is diverse?” have become commonplace. As these expressions reveal, many people now treat “diverse” simply as a [...]
Tempe Tantrums
The debate over the Arizona Civil Rights Initiative is now getting off the ground, and an interesting debate it is. One perennial element of this debate surfaced today in an Arizona Republic news article: the nearly schizophrenic argument that a ban on racial preference is not needed because the state/county/city/school/etc. employs no racial preferences, but [...]
The Season Of Equality
Equality seems to be bustin’ out all over. In addition to the “Super Tuesday Of Equality,” where five or more states may be voting on whether or not to eliminate race, ethnic, and gender preferences, there is an attempt to revive the Equal Rights Amendment (now dubbed the Women’s Equity Amendment, discussed here) and the [...]
The Transmogrification Of Affirmative Action
Linda Chavez, president of the Center for Equal Opportunity and honorary co-chair of the new Colorado Civil Rights Initiative, explains to Arizona readers why she abandoned her earlier support for affirmative action. When I entered the University of Colorado as a freshman in the fall of 1965, there were few black or Hispanic students enrolled. [...]
Did The Seattle School System Misuse Federal Funds?
Sometimes the Seattle school system seems to make an effort to present itself as a parody of politically correct multiculturalism. Recall, for example, my mention (here) of several items discussed in Hans Bader’s excellent amicus brief for the plaintiffs in the Seattle school assignment case. Bader wrote: On its Equity and Race Relations web site, [...]
Arizona And Oklahoma
Arizona and Oklahoma join the party with the launching of drives to put the Arizona Civil Rights Initiative and the Oklahoma Civil Rights Initiative on the 2008 ballot. UPDATE Writing earlier today about conflicting confusions in Colorado (here), I noted that some opponents of the new civil rights initiative opposed it because there were no [...]
Can Coloradans Think For Themselves?
The editors of the Denver Post don’t seem to be sure. Their editorial today on a “California import that our state doesn’t need” begins as follows: Just when Coloradans thought we might have to think for ourselves for a change, Ward Connerly jetted into town this week to promote his California-style ban on affirmative action. [...]
Colorado Obfuscation 2
In writing about the new Colorado Civil Rights Initiative (here), I quoted (or quoted an article that quoted) Christine Yoshinaga-Itano, vice provost and associate vice chancellor for diversity and equity at Colorado University, who said it has “no race- based admissions, no race- based employment and no race-based financial aid or scholarship.” It turns out, [...]
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