Archive for June, 2006

So their kids can’t go to college… MCRI

Saturday, June 24th, 2006

“So their kids can’t go to college…” said George B. Washington, an affirmative action attorney with Scheff & Washington in Detroit.
Scare tactics and excessive rhetoric has been and remains the strategy of BAMN and other opponents of equal treatment under the law, regardless of race. Similarly, BAMN and others, aided by much of the media, […]

125,000 black people signed the petition for MCRI

Friday, June 23rd, 2006

“I think the questions that the MCRI has never answered is how do they get 125,000 black people to sign a petition so their kids can’t go to college and the answer is obvious,” said George B. Washington, an affirmative action attorney with Scheff & Washington in Detroit.
On February 23, 2006, at the Gerald R. […]

The need to compete, Ralph Ellison

Tuesday, June 20th, 2006

“Young blacks became separatists because they were frightened by the need to compete.” -Ralph Ellison, 1973 interview.
The separatist impulse, of any stripe whatsoever, always has a ready source to draw upon, human insecurity. A few formidable intellectuals like Ellison realized long ago that the underlying dynamics of the radical fringe was headed in the wrong […]