Why Voters Should Approve the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative

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 move forward beyond state-sponsored discrimination.

At a minimum people seriously interested in seeing positive change in race relations in Michigan should read as much as possible of the following books by some of the nation’s most outstanding black scholars and writers:

Ward Connerly. Creating Equal: My Fight Against Race Preferences.

Juan Williams. Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of Failure that are Undermining Black America–and What We Can Do About It.

John McWhorter. Winning the Race: Beyond the Crisis in Black America.

John McWhorter, Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America.

Shelby Steele. A Dream Deferred. The Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in America.

Shelby Steele. White Guilt: How Blacks & Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era.

Thomas Sowell. The Quest for Cosmic Justice.

Thomas Sowell. Black Rednecks, White Liberals. Especially the chapters “The Real History of Slavery” and “Black Education: Achievments, Myths and Tragedies.”

The people have clearly expressed a desire for a new direction toward a new future. Far from the rhetoric of moving backwards, we have the opportunity to move forward, together, towards a new definition of what it means to be a human being, an American, a citizen of the great State of Michigan.

Frederick Glaysher
Why Voters Should Approve the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative
http://www.fglaysher.com/MCRI/

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