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Sep. 7th, 2003 01:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sisyphusshruggedWard Connerly, the Republican crusader who hopes to pass a proposition which would make it impossible to prove systemic racial discrimination, has an answer to all the folks who foolishly claim that racial discrimination will not disappear when the government ceases to recognize it.
Ward Connerly all but conceded defeat Saturday on Proposition 54, his ballot measure to restrict the government collection of racial and ethnic data, after Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante said he would spend nearly $4 million to defeat it and Arnold Schwarzenegger also indicated his opposition.
Bustamante's move is the result of a strategic shift in his campaign for governor. Hoping to defuse an issue that has dogged him on the campaign trail, his chief strategist said, the lieutenant governor is abandoning plans to advertise his candidacy using the nearly $4 million from labor unions and casino-owning Indian tribes.
Instead, he will spend the campaign cash on television commercials featuring himself denouncing Proposition 54, which will share the Oct. 7 ballot with the recall.
"Gulp," Connerly said when informed of the decision. A nearly $4-million campaign against his measure, he said, "probably dooms" it. "I'm never throwing in the towel. But I've been around the block. There is no way we can match that."
After weeks of refusing to state a position, Schwarzenegger said Saturday that he has decided to oppose the initiative...
Opposed by top Democrats, health care groups and liberal advocates for minorities, Proposition 54 would limit the ability of government to collect and use racial and ethnic data.
"Free country," Connerly said when asked about Schwarzenegger's opposition to the measure. "All I can do is make my case that I think this state is becoming very fragmented with people of color on the one hand, and whites on the other. I don't think that is good for the state. With people marrying across lines of race and having children, this whole system of categorizing people by race is going to crush under its own weight."
There you go. Want your kids to grow up in a country that doesn't discriminate against them? Prefer that they not die young? Think they deserve an adequate education and a fair shot at keeping out of jail?
Just make sure they're white.
Is this bold or audacious or just thinking...
No, definitely not thinking outside the box.
Ward Connerly all but conceded defeat Saturday on Proposition 54, his ballot measure to restrict the government collection of racial and ethnic data, after Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante said he would spend nearly $4 million to defeat it and Arnold Schwarzenegger also indicated his opposition.
Bustamante's move is the result of a strategic shift in his campaign for governor. Hoping to defuse an issue that has dogged him on the campaign trail, his chief strategist said, the lieutenant governor is abandoning plans to advertise his candidacy using the nearly $4 million from labor unions and casino-owning Indian tribes.
Instead, he will spend the campaign cash on television commercials featuring himself denouncing Proposition 54, which will share the Oct. 7 ballot with the recall.
"Gulp," Connerly said when informed of the decision. A nearly $4-million campaign against his measure, he said, "probably dooms" it. "I'm never throwing in the towel. But I've been around the block. There is no way we can match that."
After weeks of refusing to state a position, Schwarzenegger said Saturday that he has decided to oppose the initiative...
Opposed by top Democrats, health care groups and liberal advocates for minorities, Proposition 54 would limit the ability of government to collect and use racial and ethnic data.
"Free country," Connerly said when asked about Schwarzenegger's opposition to the measure. "All I can do is make my case that I think this state is becoming very fragmented with people of color on the one hand, and whites on the other. I don't think that is good for the state. With people marrying across lines of race and having children, this whole system of categorizing people by race is going to crush under its own weight."
There you go. Want your kids to grow up in a country that doesn't discriminate against them? Prefer that they not die young? Think they deserve an adequate education and a fair shot at keeping out of jail?
Just make sure they're white.
Is this bold or audacious or just thinking...
No, definitely not thinking outside the box.
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Date: 2003-09-07 04:14 pm (UTC)And folks like Connerly are pretending they patented it and that means that the goverment shouldn't count examples of people being treated as the 'bad guys' because of such a flimsy concept.
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Date: 2003-09-07 04:20 pm (UTC)