Legal Commentary

The Blinding, Self-Defeating Arrogance Of Preferentialists

ColorLines has a long article about the campaign to eliminate racial preferences that, even with its undisguised pro-preference biases, is better than one might expect.

One of the things that makes it interesting is that the preferentialists it approvingly quotes, recognizing a friendly forum, are a bit less guarded and circumspect than when they are talking to the mainstream press. My favorite of several revealing quotes is from David Waymire, spokesman for One United Michigan, the main umbrella group that led the opposition to the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative. That initiative, like similar ones passed in Calfornia and Washington and on the ballots of up to five additional states next November, barred the state from ?discriminating against, or granting preferential treatment to, any individual or group? based on race, ethnicity, national origin, or gender.

MCRI passed in Nov. 2006 with 58% of the vote, but according to David Waymire ?No one who understood this issue rationally voted for the ban.?

So, 58% of the voters in Michigan were either dumb or irrational. No wonder these people have such trouble generating support and thus try so hard to keep initiatives requiring colorblind equality off the ballot.

Full post as published by Discriminations on March 14, 2008 (boomark / email).