Why Voters Should Approve the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative

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, Laura Berman  of the Detroit Newsshifts to straw man arguments that attempt to divert discussion to bogus claims to scare white female voters and play on their emotions.

Many outstanding black scholars and writers have come out against racial preferences for many years now. I urge Michigan voters to consider the work of Thomas Sowell, Shelby Steele, John McWhorter, Juan Williams, MSU Professor William Allen (See his website Toward a Fair Michigan), and Ward Connerly, among others. Their testimony is that racial preferences do not help young people in the black community. Instead of the social engineering we have had for over forty-five years, we need to move forward together to addressing the real problems, not assauging misguided, demeaning white guilt.

Further, over 120,000 black citizens of Michigan signed the petition to place it on the ballot because they recognize racial preferences do not help their young people nor community, yet we have watched month after month, year after year, one fraudulent attempt after another to disenfranchise and discredit them.

MCRI is not about white versus black. It’s about how do we move together towards a new stage of race relations built on equal treatment and opportunity for all. What we have been doing has not worked, has even had devastating effect as Bill Cosby and others have so rightly acknowledged during the last few years. More of the same will only make matters worse.

Far from returning to segregation, a Yes vote on MCRI will open the door to a new future for all of Michigan’s citizens, grounded in equal treatment before the law, equal opportunity, and individual responsibility.

Frederick Glaysher
Why Voters Should Approve MCRI
http://www.fglaysher.com/MCRI/

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