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Uncommon Knowledge: Ward Connerly

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Ward Connerly and the End of Affirmative Action

03 min 29 sec

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Ward Connerly, founder and the chairman of the American Civil Rights Institute, is working to end affirmative action in Colorado and Nebraska with the American Civil Rights Initiative, Amendment 46.

The measure is opposed by Nebraska Faith groups, the University of Nebraska, and the League of Women voters.
Ward Connerly - California Since Prop. 209

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Ward Connerly, founder and the chairman of the American Civil Rights Institute, supported proposition 209 elected in 1995. Prop 209 cut the proportion of the number of African American, Latino, and Native American students in half in all UC campuses. Connerly states he supported a measure that brought the principle of equality to California.
Could an Obama Victory Set Back Racial Equality?

01 min 48 sec

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Connerly thinks Barack Obama's position on affirmative action is only for political purposes. He believes presidential candidates have to be for affirmative action in order to get the black vote and believes Obama’s stance will start to align more with his (away from affirmative action) if Obama wins the presidency.
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parkflies

Posted: 10.29.08, 09:36 AM

As much as the Constitution is revered, and necessarily so, as a template for the organization of American society, it is nevertheless an imperfect document that in no complete way will account for and contain many impudent realities of human nature and human behavior. Those who support affirmative action (and its attendant imperfections) may know that it is 'extra-constitutional' in the same way they know that humanity is extra-constitutional, just as they may know that it is frivolous and irresponsible to allow an unavoidably limited document to legitimize avoidable human suffering and inequality. And so, thankfully, the Supreme Court has occasionally attempted to administer human justice when Constitutional justice reveals it's limits. Ward Connerly's mistake is over-reliance on the Constitution to deliver human justice; a mistake that I might forgive him for were he not making it from such a place of comfort.