William Bennett advises Bush Administration, Congress to embrace true civil rights agenda

Empower America ^ | January 10, 2002 | William J. Bennett

[LandOfTheFreeHomeOfTheBrave]

Washington, D.C., January 10, 2003—Today, Former Education Secretary and co-director of Empower America William J. Bennett sent a memo to the White House and the U.S. Congress urging them to embrace a true civil rights agenda based on colorblind policies and equal opportunity for all.

Bennett advises that in the coming year a civil rights agenda should be crafted around three action items:

• Ending the double standard of racial preferences in higher education admissions: The Bush Administration and Members of Congress should immediately file an amicus brief with the Supreme Court on behalf of the plaintiffs in Grutter v. Bollinger and Gratz v. Bollinger.

• Expanding on the success of welfare reform: Reauthorization of welfare reform should strive to restore a culture of marriage and family formation to help stop the erosion of the family—the greatest threat to the future of black children in America.

• Extend school choice to children trapped in failing schools: Immediately empower thousands of parents with the opportunity and hope to give their children a safe and effective education by creating a comprehensive school choice program in Washington, D.C. (one of America’s worst, yet most expensive school systems). Use the D.C. school choice program as a model to unleash the same opportunity for parents and children trapped in failing schools in other cities across America.

[LandOfTheFreeHomeOfTheBrave]

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[johniegrad]

Welcome to FR.

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Ending the double standard of racial preferences in higher education admissions: The Bush Administration and Members of Congress should immediately file an amicus brief with the Supreme Court on behalf of the plaintiffs in Grutter v. Bollinger and Gratz v. Bollinger.

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[cynicom]

Bush will not read the part about racial preferences.

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KEY WORDS

should immediately

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HE BEST AND BEST DO IT NOW!

END AA AND HE NEEDS TO TAKE A STAND! INSTEAD OF NO OPINION!

[Howlin]

I bet that's Trent Lott.

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YOU WOULD think that BLIND ONE

lol

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look, they are coming after another one!

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/01/09/MN2137.DTL


A candidate for state Republican Party chairman warned last year that if California voters choose their candidates "based on whether they're homosexual,

black or Chinese," the state could end up as dysfunctional as San Francisco's government.

Opponents of Palo Alto attorney Duf Sundheim gleefully suggested the cable television interview last May showed that Sundheim has the same problems with racial sensitivity that his supporters have tried to pin on Bill Back, a Yuba County man also vying for the party's top post.

[johniegrad]

LandOfTheFreeHomeOfTheBrave is Trent Lott?

[headsonpikes]

Geez...Bennett sounds like a libertarian, all of a sudden. ;^)

Educational reform is impossible--educational revolution is what is required.

[Howlin]

Wasn't Trent in favor of a panel to further race relations?

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No that was some other republican!

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

By dint of his efforts to win consensus, Mr. Bush has won a second "hundred days" in which to press his agenda.

He has staked out aggressive positions on tax policy and on his judicial nominees. What most remains, it seems to me, is in his education policy.

We have seen the "smaller class size" mantra fail utterly. And now we have fabulous costs and still no real education, yet we hear that private schools are not a viable option. But how many college-educated retirees might not be tempted to tutor a few children for a salary of $11,000 per head, per school year?

Government education cannot be reformed from within; it must face competition from without or "reform" will remain a facade for business as usual. Vouchers are not Constitutionally suspect. Indeed, discrimination against institutions which are religiously motivated to provide superior education as judged by the people who actually care about the individual students--their parents--is unconstitutional religious discrimination. Vouchers are the soverign remedy for government-school nonfeasance.

[johniegrad]

Not until after the birthday party.

[cksharks]

DOh when you called Lott a selfish bastard the other day because he would not shake hands with Frist. That incident never happened. It was a lie from your favorite source CNN.

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as she is doing here on this thread just trying to trash Trent like a fool she is!

A Republican senator wants to establish a temporary congressional committee on race relations that will address such issues as a national apology for racial segregation, construction of a black history museum on the National Mall and reparations for slavery.



Sen. Sam Brownback of Kansas said he will broach the subject officially with his Republican colleagues as they meet and organize this week on Capitol Hill. He said "feedback has been positive" since he sent a letter proposing the special committee to incoming Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist of Tennessee.

[Howlin]

Actually, nobody said it was a lie. They reported what they SAW.

And he IS selfish. He was perfectly willing to take the entire party down with him to save his job. Not to mention the things he said about the people in the state of Mississippi.

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Bennett advises that in the coming year a civil rights agenda should be crafted around three action items:

• Ending the double standard of racial preferences in higher education admissions: The Bush Administration and Members of Congress should immediately file an amicus brief with the Supreme Court on behalf of the plaintiffs in Grutter v. Bollinger and Gratz v. Bollinger.



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[Howlin]

Exactly. And see the sitatution his fat mouth has left us in? Having to deal with things that don't even need to be dealt with. All because he HAD to try to be cute at a party.