"The State-by-State Assault on Equal Opportunity"
In a discussion with relevance to state ballot measures across the nation, ACS is releasing an important new Issue Brief focusing on initiatives that would amend state constitutions to ban all affirmative action measures. In her article “The State-by-State Assault on Equal Opportunity,” Professor Melissa Hart writes that “a small group of well-funded opponents of equal opportunity, frustrated with the [Supreme] Court’s continued rejection of their radical vision of formal equality, has been steadily attempting to shift the debate into the political arena.”
The current proposals, according to Professor Hart, an associate professor at the University of Colorado Law School, would end “equal opportunity initiatives [that] have been an essential component of efforts to foster true equality and ensure civil rights for women and people of color.”
In examining the “flawed premises” that underlie the initiatives to amend state constitutions, Professor Hart explores the persistence of subtle discrimination in our society, the reality that educational and employment opportunities vary based upon race and sex, the intrinsic benefits of diversity, and that leveling the playing field does not provide an advantage to the undeserving.
The Issue Brief is available here.
Written By:JT On September 18, 2008 11:19 AM Written By:ken On October 22, 2008 2:53 AM
cmon 4 more years of non poor me liberals and most of the damage they did to america will be cleaned up there should be laws to protect us from your backdoor attempts to help the people that have no love for this country no love for freedom or for a true democracy affirmative was meant to help people who had something positive to add to add to this country and the world it has failed like any good action it had opposite bad reaction and in this case bad won dont try to save it try something better
The proposals, initiatives and secret bits of legislation that make their way around state and federal legislatures is shameful. There should be criminal laws passed to expose citizens and politicians for this crime against democracy.