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affirmative action
Affirmative action foe Ward Connerly takes barbs at Truman State
KIRKSVILLE, Mo. (AP) Affirmative action foe Ward Connerly on Thursday brought his long-running campaign to Truman State University, where an overflow crowd alternately mocked and cheered his efforts in support of a November ballot initiative that would ban consideration of race in public hiring and college admissions.
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Connerly drew his biggest applause of the night after briefly losing his composure responding to an audience member's interruption.
''Lady, would you please just shut up?'' he said.
Publisher:
KMOX - APACLU: Affirmative Action: What's at Stake for Missouri and America
The ACLU of Eastern
Missouri is kicking off our 2008 National Directors' Series on
Wednesday April 2 with National Racial Justice Program Director Dennis
Parker.
His keynote address will
be: Affirmative Action: What's at Stake for Missouri and
America
Currently there is a
movement to amend the Missouri State Constitution to ban affirmativeDate:04/02/2008 - 6:30pm
Ward Connerly's "Super Tuesday for Segregation" Targets Missouri
Ward Connerly, that high profile opponent for affirmative action and Black water carrier for the new Jim Crow, has returned. He wants to eliminate affirmative action everywhere, and make a buck at the same time... Connerly's "Super Tuesday for Equal Rights" is an effort to promote ballot initiatives throughout the country that would eliminate tax dollars to affirmative action programs based on race and gender. He has targeted five states for this year's November ballot -- Arizona, Colorado, Missouri, Nebraska and Oklahoma -- all of which have relatively low numbers of people of color. In the absence of a determined and coordinated campaign to quash his efforts, he might succeed in taking us back to the future we know too well.
Article first published in The Black Commentator. Cartoon from BAMN; first published March 1998 Emerge Magazine.
"Supporting segregation need not be racist. One can believe in segregation and believe in equality of the races." - Ward Connerly, on CNN's "Wolf Blitzer Reports," Dec. 13, 2002
