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Thomas Sowell, the famous economist and writer, has written eloquently about the ways that people of different racial and economic backgrounds gravitate to different professions and neighborhoods. It's as natural as the sun coming up in the morning and as typical in the United States as it is in Indonesia or Albania.No one is shocked that many donut stores in Southern California are owned by Cambodians. Or that motels are owned disproportionately by people of Indian descent, or that Indians also are well represented in the computer programming field. Basketball has long been the province of black Americans, although an...

<p>As racially divisive as opponents say its potential is, Proposition 54 may be the best-kept secret among local officials this side of the Oct. 7 recall. Lack of knowledge about Proposition 53 is a close second. Both measures have been approved by the U.S. Justice Department to be included on the October ballot.</p>

WALNUT CREEK - Tom Wood and Glynn Custred used to agree on most everything that had to do with race.They agreed that race-based affirmative action was wrong. They agreed on the need to ban racial preferences in state admissions, hiring and public contracting. And so they authored Proposition 209, the initiative that made California the first state to abolish race-based affirmative action.But those lockstep days are over. The two strongly disagree on the latest initiative designed to change the way Californians think about race. Proposition 54, spearheaded by UC Regent Ward Connerly, who campaigned for Prop. 209, is a constitutional...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:August 26, 2003CONTACT: Diane Schachterle916-444-2278ds@racialprivcy.org LEGISLATIVE HEARING ON PROPOSITION 54 IS A FARCE SACRAMENTO - On August 27, 2003 the Assembly and Senate Judiciary Committees will hold a joint hearing on roposition 54. This hearing will produce no report, make no recommendation and add no value to a civil discussion regarding Proposition 54’s intent of ending the current system of racial classifications. The Legislative Analyst’s Office (LAO) has already provided a careful analysis of the measure, which will appear in the voter pamphlet.The opposition has hijacked this hearing, using it to call on their buddies in the legislature...

Commentary and news from Pacific Legal Foundation (www.pacificlegal.org) The PLF Sentry Vol. 3, No. 15 August 22, 2003DAVIS SIGNS ASSAULT ON PROPOSITION 209; PLF POISED TO POUNCEProposition 209 is the voter-passed amendment to the California Constitution which forbids state and local governments from playing favorites by race in public hiring, contracting and education. The latest in a long line of assaults on Prop. 209 by proponents of racial spoils is Assemblyman Mervyn Dymally's bill that would play inventive word games with key mandates in the initiative. The Dymally legislation, A.B. 703, would require that the words "discriminate" and "preference" be...