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Backward in California
The Boston Globe
THE SACRAMENTO businessman and University of California regent who successfully pushed through a ballot measure banning affirmative action in public hiring, contracting, and college admissions is back to his old tricks. This time Ward Connerly is seeking to ban the very collection of the data used to justify and shape affirmative action programs and other efforts aimed at easing racial and ethnic disparities. Despite its innocuous name, the Racial Privacy Initiative is a harmful and ill-conceived attempt to remove not only the proof that disparities exist in education, public health, and law enforcement but also the incentive to correct them. Instead of being a step toward creating a colorblind society, as Connerly and his allies claim, the proposition would be a step backward for California.