Tag: Race Relations

Sample Letters in Support of Proposition 54  Mercury News, Aug. 6 Groups vow to defeat initiative banning racial data collection letters@mercurynews.com I notice that Kaiser Permanente is joining the misguided […]

Notice the governor's Owell-speak. By advocating that we stop dividing people up by "races", we are now accused of dividing people on "race." I would call him an idiot, but […]

Nathan C. Masters of CNSNews.com on Affirmative Action Foes Split Over Racial Privacy Initiative: The man who wrote and sponsored California's Proposition 209, which banned affirmative action in the state, […]

The Sacramento Bee on Prop. 54 funding is questioned: With the election fast approaching, California voters trying to “follow the money” in Ward Connerly’s campaign to restrict race-based data quickly […]

Emily Berg of the Victorville Daily Press on Educators confused over Prop. 54: Checking race and ethnic background boxes on government forms could come to an end in California. On […]

Prop 54 would hide inequities in education: Would bar the state from gathering information on race By JENNIFER COLEMAN, The Associated Press For more of this story, click on or […]

I have an op-ed appearing in ChronWatch today. Read it here.

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 […]

Is Colorblind Initiative Naive? August 13, 2003 KRON-TV The fight over race has always been a heated topic across the world and now it will be fought here in California. […]

L.A. mayor joins NAACP in opposing Prop. 54 August 13, 2003 Contra Costa Times by Sandra Marquez The head of the NAACP and Mayor James Hahn joined activists Tuesday in […]