Racial data battle line drawn
August 10, 2003
The Sacramento Bee
by Jim Sanders
Four decades after Martin Luther King Jr. spoke of his dream for a society that doesn’t judge people by the color of their skin, a first-of-its-kind California ballot initiative is sparking fierce new debate over how best to accomplish that.
Ward Connerly’s new initiative, Proposition 54, is based on the notion that society will never be colorblind as long as government continues to collect, dissect, analyze and fight over racial statistics.