Shelby Steele is a Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution and the author of a number of books on racial and social affairs. A number of his articles are available online. His work is highly insightful into the tragic dynamics of black, white politics and racial preferences. A person from whom Michigan has much to […]
Thomas Sowell, Black Rednecks and White Liberals. Encounter Books, 2005.
The approval by voters of the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative corroborates Thomas Sowell’s observation in his Preface to the book, referring to “a growing willingness to consider views that differ from the racial orthodoxy that has prevailed largely unchallenged from the 1960s onward in intellectual circles […]
Michigan’s media has the opportunity to set a new tone instead of the divisive misrepresentations of the opponents of the will of the people during the entire debate over MCRI.
Please start reporting honestly and with a sense of balance, allowing real discussion and debate to take place. It would be refreshing and would help Michigan […]
“Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!” - Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Frederick Douglass
When it is finally ours, this freedom, this liberty, this beautiful
and terrible thing, needful to man as air,
usable as earth; when it belongs at last to all,
when it is truly instinct, brain matter, diastole, systole,
reflex action; […]
Both the Detroit News and the Free Press, indeed most of the media in Michigan, have sunk to the level of negative propaganda against the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative, manipulating and suppressing open and free discussion.
For instance, unable to address the real issue of MCRI, the 14th Amendment requirement for equal treatment under the law, […]
Along with Ralph Ellison, Robert Hayden achieved the deepest insight into what it means to be a human being, an American, a citizen of Michigan, an understanding that still rings true today, decades after his passing. I can’t believe for a single moment that Robert Hayden would ever have approved of what racial preferences have […]
NOT to be missed…. One of the most important interviews for MCRI, reaching a very large audience….
Jennifer Gratz Defeats Debbie Dingell on the Frank Beckmann Show, WJR 760AM radio:
Listen to Jennifer Gratz expose the scare tactics that Proposal 2 opponents use and catch Debbie Dingell, co-chair of One United Michigan, in outright lies about […]
John McWhorter. Winning the Race: Beyond the Crisis in Black America. Gotham, 2006.
John McWhorter’s Winning the Race has a strong sociological approach to the issues of black America, surveying the history of the development of the inner cities and the welfare system, leading to the dependence that later found expression in affirmative action and racial […]
Opinion: Vote “No” on Proposal 2. Jennifer M. Granholm, Michigan Governor. Dennis W. Archer, Former Detroit Mayor.
U. of M’s own statistics just recently released by the Center for Equal Opportunity prove beyond the shadow of a doubt that less qualified minorities have a 70 to 1 advantage over white and Asian applicants with the same […]
The website of the Western Michigan University College Republicans has turned up a number of interesting links that Michigan voters might want to consider in evaluating BAMN’s anti-MCRI position and its association with One “United” Michigan, which continues to slander and smear MCRI in the media, instead of addressing the ideas and issues. One “United” […]
YES on 2 Hits the Airwaves!
(Lansing) - Today, the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative began its “YES on 2″ TV ad campaign. The ad features MCRI Executive Director Jennifer Gratz and ACRC Chairman Ward Connerly.
Frederick Glaysher
Why Voters Should Approve the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative
http://www.fglaysher.com/MCRI/