Letter from Ward Connerly to Karl Rove

e-list of leaders of Anti-Preferences movement | Jan 11, 2003 | Ward Connerly [circulated by permission]

[prognostigaator]

"...the bigotry of lower expectations."

AKA- who can strive today to get a better job or better grades? [without hurting someone elses feelings].

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Keeping the Republicans Feet to the fire

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For once, Bush, would you take a stand.......


End Affirmative Action

[Nephi]

My recollection of the Lott fiasco is that when Lott appeared on BET TV and said he was for Affirmative Action he sealed his fate with conservatives.

While it is true that many conservatives were ready to be rid of Lott before his BET appearance, when he made his about-face on Affirmative Action, his supporters practically disappeared.

Eleanor Clift says that since Bush has given conservatives Pickering, he won't give in to conservatives on AA, too. Isn't it convenient of Clift to see the two issues as part of a zero sum political equation?

Clift could be onto something - a wrong move by the Bush administration on Affirmative Action could cancel out the political points scored with conservatives in the Pickering renomination. That would leave a zero sum, wouldn't it?

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THANKS..........

:>)

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Eleanor Clift says that since Bush has given conservatives Pickering, he won't give in to conservatives on AA


tick tick tick as the day cometh!

Keeping the Republicans Feet to the fire lets End Affirmative Action

affirmative action-- Bush May Enter Affirmative Action Case...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/820656/posts

Affirmative action-- Quotas on trial (Thomas Sowell)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/820114/posts

affirmative action-- Wishful Thinking Not Enough to Rid Country of Racism (Big Barf Alert)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/820648/posts

affirmative action--bush May Enter Affirmative Action Case...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/820656/posts

affirmative action--White House set to stay out of affirmative-action case
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/819379/posts

affirmative action--White House torn over affirmative action case
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/820077/posts

affirmative action--Words of Advice: The speech the president should give on the Michigan cases.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/820342/posts

[Redhd2]

As long as the diversity rationale is given governmental legitimacy, every black and Hispanic student in college will suffer the presumption of inadequacy that is implicit in that rationale.

The very worst form of bigotry. You cannot do it without our help.

[Austin Willard Wright]

The issue here is preferences not affirmative action. Why do you keep persisting in confusing the two?

[Carry_Okie]

Rove had better pay attention (you can tell I have my doubts).

As long as institutional preferences exist, people will smell injustice and will bear without shame a deeply seated rage. Racism is getting worse, not better, and it's largely because of the affirmative action industry.

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It's affirmative action and that is the issue here!

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Supreme Court enters debate over affirmative action on campus

http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/nation/4650532.htm

[Jeff Chandler]

The rats have been accusing the Bush administration of promoting racist policies since before there was a Bush (43) administration. They insist that his very election, which they call an appointment, was the result of racist suppression of minority votes.

The point is, they are going to play the race card even if Bush endorses quotas, so he might as well just do the right thing.

The Republicans don't need, and will never get, the support of liberal blacks; they need to legitimize black conservatism.

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Affirmative Action

Chronology & History

http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/race/affirm/homepage.htm

[Jeff Chandler]

It's affirmative action and that is the issue here!

 

A critical tactic of leftist strategy is control of the language. By equating in the minds of the public the concepts of affirmative action with racial preferences, the left is able to smear reasonable arguments as racist.

Affirmative action can come in the legitimate form of advertising available opportunities in minority-patronized media. That's not the same as quotas or special preferences.

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Q Ari, will the administration be filing a brief in the Supreme Court affirmative action case?

MR. FLEISCHER: That is under review. This is something that the Department of Justice and the White House are reviewing as we speak and no decisions have been made.

[MHGinTN]

Great post, Richard. Thanks for bringing it to FR.

It is my firm belief that the professed value of "diversity" is fraudulently used because no other rationale is allowed by the Court. It is a fig leaf and nothing more than a legally sanctioned excuse to discriminate. More significantly, however, granting any agency of government the authority to use race, color or national ancestry to "create diversity", fundamentally contradicts that precious principle of equal treatment under the law for every person. I submit to you that the "diversity" rationale and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment are incompatible. They cannot coexist. To allow the use of race as "one among many factors" is to renounce all for which our nation stands.

And let that be the end to this 'reparations' absurdity! How very inane, to pay reparations from taxpayer funds built by all races and creeds, to a select few whining for 'payoffs'. But then, it is the democrat imperative to foster division and racial strife, in order to empower their party for turnout. No matter that such a methodology destroys the nation and denegrates any minority for which such tactics appear necessary. [Ward, how about stepping over there and slapping some consciousness into John Conyers, please.]

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Karl,


I know that there must be much on your plate these days, and one of the tasty morsels must be the question of what to do about the University of Michigan cases now pending before the Supreme Court.

Letter from Ward Connerly to Karl Rove

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left is able to smear reasonable arguments as racist


It is now time for white America to realize that they are part of this same battle. The words “racist,” “bigot,” and “hatemonger,” coming from embittered followers of demagogues, mean nothing. The real strength is in those who give these words no mind and continue to stand against racism and for what is right. Enduring these attacks is a part of a blessed life. Christ said that whenever you stand up for right you will go through such attacks. If Christ had to endure, why shouldn’t we? After all, in enduring as Christ did, we come closer to God.

If Americans of all races can lay aside their fear to stand up for truth, we will all be blessed. If they do not lay aside this fear, then destruction will be widespread.

Jesse Lee Peterson
White Fear
http://www.washingtondispatch.com/article_337.shtml

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As I sat in that muddy field, shivering, with rain drops falling on my scalp, and watched George W. Bush take his Oath of Office, I felt proud to be an American citizen once again. Many of us who had traveled from all across this land to share that moment--total strangers we may have been--smiled at each other with a sense of shared appreciation that we had elected a president who would never subordinate the best interest of the nation to his personal or political whims, as we thought had been the case for the previous eight years. The University of Michigan cases present an opportunity for our president to reaffirm what we thought on that day three years ago.

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Powerful Letter and it is showtime like you said..

All Freepers should send emails to the White House and call the White House and urge the President to take a stand and do what is right......

[Jeff Chandler]

Q Ari, will the administration be filing a brief in the Supreme Court affirmative action case? MR. FLEISCHER: That is under review. This is something that the Department of Justice and the White House are reviewing as we speak and no decisions have been made.

If this is supposed to be an indictment of Bush, then I contend that it is a somewhat premature one. Playing one's cards close to the chest and paying heed to the timing of one's actions is not a vice.

If the Bush administration eventually decides to sit out the arguement or side with quotas, then I will agree with you.