“In matters of race relations, the campus generates and exports hysteria, and it is the common sense of the ordinary man and woman in the street that must provide a corrective. The college campus is the last place one would now expect to have a rational discussion of affirmative action.” -John M. Ellis, Literature Lost: […]
“The intellectual catastrophe that has overtaken the humanities is not just a by-product of affirmative action. It *is* affirmative action transformed into a curricular and intellectual climate.” -John M. Ellis, Literature Lost: Social Agendas and the Corruption of the Humanities, 1997 (216)
Few people outside education can fully understand the extent to which affirmative action suffuses […]
Since the Michigan media can’t be relied on to report Ward Connerly’s response to the Governor’s misleading statements regarding MCRI, bloggers will have to present the facts for voters to decide for themselves:
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March 17, 2006
The Honorable Jennifer M. Granholm
Office of Governor
State of Michigan
P.O. Box 30013
Lansing, MI 48909
Dear Governor Granholm:
In your March 9, 2005 Guest Column, […]
“…change the culture of the university, which is what I was (and am still) seeking as much as anything else.” -Ward Connerly (139)
The discimination and preferences hidden behind the pieties of affirmative action have poisoned and corrupted the culture of the university, filtering down through all levels of education, in Michigan and elsewhere throughout the […]
“Clearly, affirmative action has hardened into an ideology in search of a justification.” -Ward Connerly, Creating Equal (22).
Sitting on the stage with BAMN lawyer George Washington and the other participants in the February 23, 2006 forum at the Gerald Ford Museum in Grand Rapids, the truth of Ward Connerly’s observation hit me like a ton […]
“Discriminatory admissions . . . are wrong because they are a manifest violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which unambiguously forbids institutions receiving federal financial assistance from discriminating on the basis of race or color or nationality, which we [U. Michigan] admit that we do.” - Carl Cohen
I was shocked […]
“These preferences are also wrong because they violate the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment to our Constitution.” - Carl Cohen
How easily we’ve slid down the slippery slope of the end justifies the means, for decades now, till the worst of the oppressed become the oppressors, in the classic form of human experience. […]
Monday, March 13th, 2006
As I launch this blog, I must emphasize at the outset that I do not officially represent the views and opinions of the Initiative Committee nor anyone connected with it. I speak only for myself, my experience of affirmative action, personal and otherwise…
Frederick Glaysher
www.fglaysher.com
Monday, March 13th, 2006
Why I Collected Signatures for the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative
Frederick Glaysher
Two reasons among many:
1. Murray State University, October 1994 - Filed with EEOC, KY
2. Reverse racism at Lewis & Clark Community College, Godfrey, Illinois
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EEOC, St. Louis, Missouri - Filed with EEOC, MO
Center for Individual Rights - Feldacker & Cohen
—– Original Message —–
From: Azizi Jasper
To: earthrisepress
Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 1:09 PM
Subject: MCRI Debate in Grand Rapids MI
Greetings,
On February 23, 2006; I Azizi Jasper and Jonathan Jelks have organized a non-partisan community forum at the Gerald R. Ford museum to discuss the Michigan Civil Rights ballot proposal. This very controversial initiative has been the […]