Ward Connerly is a right-wing opponent of affirmative action. He's putting a million and a half bucks into an anti-affirmative action campaign and hopes to put initiatives on the ballot in November.
Image from The Black Commentator This is part of a black conservatives on Obama series at The Black Snob. Previous entries were done on Amy Holmes and Condoleezza Rice. When it comes to white hot hatred towards any black conservative Ward Connerly probably raises the most hackles. Possibly even more than Clarence Thomas who’s had to endure a-many Judas calls in the black community. Connerly is the Affirmative Action defeating warrior declaring the time of race-based preferences has past. That... Read Full Story
Ward Connerly, the chief backer of a campaign to ban affirmative action in five states, said that he was abandoning the Oklahoma campaign due to a lack of signatures on petitions to get the issue on the November voting ballot. This is, essentially, a blow for his campaign. Connerly opponents, a coalition of traditional civil rights advocates including the American Civil Liberties Union and NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, hailed the his camp's decision, filed in court papers last... Read Full Story
Ward ConnerlyPeople in Colorado who signed an anti-affirmative action ballot initiative petition are charging that petition circulators deceived them about the measure's real purpose and intent. The signature-gathering effort is part of a push by African-American conservative Ward Connerly to qualify ballot initiatives in Arizona, Colorado, Missouri, Nebraska and Oklahoma that would end affirmative action policies and programs in those states. Signature-gatherers for Connerly's measure, which... Read Full Story
Opponents of affirmative action are pushing to ban the practice in five states, initially inspired by citizens voting to cut affirmative action in Michigan. Advocates are hunting for signatures in Arizona, Colorado, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Nebraska, while supporters of affirmative action are increasing efforts to keep the ban from passing. Ward Connerly is the nation's most prominent opponent of affirmative action: Connerly contends that the success of Obama and Clinton shows that... Read Full Story
There is an editorial on the St. Louis Post Dispatch about the ad I have on my sidebar. It is pretty much par for the course forthe St Louis Post Dispatch. Itis a rag for the Unions and so-called Civil Rights groups here in the St Louis area. Nice puppy, just do what your masters tell you to write and do not think for yourself. Typical MSM Liberal Bias.
Ward Connely is walking in Martin Luther King's footsteps. He is looking for a color blind society where the color of one's skin does... Read Full Story
