{"id":636,"date":"2011-06-21T09:17:04","date_gmt":"2011-06-21T13:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/?p=636"},"modified":"2014-07-17T15:31:33","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T19:31:33","slug":"creating-equal-ward-connerly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/2011\/06\/21\/creating-equal-ward-connerly\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating Equal. Ward Connerly."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_637\" style=\"width: 82px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Ward_Connerly.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-637\" class=\"size-full wp-image-637\" title=\"Ward_Connerly\" src=\"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Ward_Connerly.jpg\" alt=\"Ward Connerly\" width=\"72\" height=\"110\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-637\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ward Connerly<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Creating Equal: My Fight Against Race Preferences. Ward Connerly.<\/p>\n<p>A Courageous Man and a Brilliant Book\u2026. March 25, 2000<\/p>\n<p>In\u00a0<em>Creating Equal<\/em>, Ward Connerly returns the *human* dimension to the realities of race in America. Where so often what the poet Robert Hayden called \u201crace rhetoric\u201d substitutes for thought and dialogue, Connerly confronts long-held affirmative action doctrine with compelling insight into the pervasive devastation race preferences have actually had for all people. His emphasis on the necessity of basic human virtue and morality stands as both an indictment of us all and a call to struggle together toward a new vision of what it means to be an American&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Now available in<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>The Myth of the Enlightenment: Essays<\/em><br \/>\nForthcoming, September, 2014.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.earthrisepress.net\/myth_of_the_enlightenment.html\">https:\/\/www.earthrisepress.net\/myth_of_the_enlightenment.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/\">Frederick Glaysher<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ward Connerly rightly deserves to be more widely known not merely as an opponent of race preferences but rather as a matchless defender of free speech and conscience, a cause for which he has also suffered dearly at one university after another throughout our country. <a href=\"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/2011\/06\/21\/creating-equal-ward-connerly\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[274],"tags":[338,280,340,341,278,339,335,12,337,281],"class_list":["post-636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-race-in-america","tag-affirmative-action","tag-black","tag-creating-equal","tag-my-fight-against-race-preferences","tag-race","tag-race-preferences","tag-racism","tag-robert-hayden","tag-ward-connerly","tag-white"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}