Black leaders protest racial privacy initiative
August 14, 2003
The San Francisco Examiner
by Ethan Fletcher
Julian Bond, national chairman of the NAACP, joined other African-American leaders Wednesday in San Francisco to speak out against the anti-affirmative action initiative, Proposition 54.
The proposition, called the Racial Privacy Initiative, will appear on the recall ballot Oct. 7, and has drawn fire from minority groups and others for its goal of banning the collection of racial data, meaning “race, ethnicity, color, or national origin,” in California at the state and local level.
African-American leaders from The City, including district attorney candidate Kamala Harris, Supervisor Sophie Maxwell and Mayor Willie Brown, gathered at the San Francisco Christian Church, near the border to Daly City, to rally opposition to the initiative.
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