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The Bad Guys Win Another One

Opponents of colorblind racial equality in Missouri, led by elected Democratic state officials and supported by roving gangs of intimidators who disrupted petition gathering, have succeeded in keeping the Missouri Civil Rights Initiative off the ballot. For this year.

It is clear that opponents in other states have learned well the lesson taught by states where similar initiative passed and where they have been kept off the ballot by similar tactics. As the Lincoln (Neb.) Journal Star reported today,

The news from Missouri cheered affirmative-action supporters here, who believe the best way to defeat the Nebraska Civil Rights Initiative could be keeping it off the ballot. Similar initiatives passed comfortably when put before voters in California, Michigan and Washington.

That is indeed true. The best way to impose preferential treatment based on race and ethnicity on citizens of a state is to prevent them from having a say in the matter.

Democrats should be ashamed, or at least change the name of their party.

Full post as published by Discriminations on May 06, 2008 (boomark / email).