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Colorado, Nebraska Initiatives

Nov. 4, 11:10 P.M. According to the Omaha World-Telegram, “Nebraska voters approved a constitutional amendment that would ban race- and gender-based affirmative action programs.” The vote total was not provided; I’ll add it later. A court challenge to the initiative is also still pending. With about 25% of the precincts reporting at this hour, the […]

Colorado University: Equality Requirement Would Have “Big Impact”

Opponents of civil rights initiatives — proposals pending in three states that would require treating individuals without regard to race, ethnicity, or gender — often say that such a requirement isn’t needed because the discrimination these initiatives claim to prohibit is already illegal and that no such targeted preferential treatment programs actually exist. They say […]

Rocky Mountain Non-News

The Rocky Mountain News more often than not gets things right. Yesterday, however, it did not. Here is the piece in its entirety: Initiative backers plan to file complaint Organizers of an initiative to eliminate most affirmative action programs in Colorado say they will file a fraud complaint against their opponents, whom they charge with […]

Blind Faith In Colorado

Predictably, the Colorado Council of Churches is opposing the Colorado Civil Rights Initiative, Amendment 46, that would bar the state from engaging in preferential treatment based on race, sex, or ethnicity. The group says Amendment 46 would eliminate things like science and math tutoring for young women and closing the gender gap in pay. “Progress […]

“The Malaise Of Enforced Inequality”

“We live side by side but not together.” That’s how one person recently described “the fallout from decades of race-based affirmative action policies.” People, she said, “were fed up.” Those people are in Malaysia, which just handed the governing party a surprise rebuke that was based heavily on a long-simmering rejection of Malaysia’s “affirmative action” […]

UPDATE

Colorado: The Good Guys Win A Round, posted yesterday, has been updated.

Obfuscation In Colorado

Conceding that they cannot win an honest contest over racial preferences, the opponents of colorblind equality in Colorado have turned, as preferentialists always do, to disingenuousness and obfuscation. Combining a sly version of the tried and true “if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em” tactic with a bait and switch, two sentence initiative where the […]

UPDATE!

Please see the UPDATE to From Inane To Sublime To Ridiculous below.

From Inane To Sublime To Ridiculous

In my post immediately below I criticized two columns, one of them from the Rocky Mountain News, as utterly inane. Today I’m happy to report that the Rocky Mountain News has a column by Vincent Carroll, the Rocky’s editorial page editor, that is superb. (HatTip to reader Linda Seebach, recently retired as an editorial writer […]

Colorado Misrepresentation Mimics Michigan Misrepresentation

Diane Carman is a columnist for the Denver Post. The Denver Post is a liberal newspaper. Colorado is facing a Michigan-like initiative barring racial preferences. Thus a recent column by Diane Carman recycles all the innuendoes, misrepresentations, and outright lies that her ideological colleagues in Michigan, in and out of the press, attempted, with a […]