President Joe Biden’s pledge to fill the Supreme Court vacancy with a black woman suggests that his mindset is still in the 1960s, according to Ward Connerly, a civil rights leader and prominent opponent of affirmative action. Connerly, who is black, served as regent of University of California when he led the effort that banned…
Anti-Affirmative Action Leader on Biden’s Supreme Court Pledge: ‘He’s Living in the 60s’
North Carolina Asks Supreme Court to Deny Challenge to Race-Based Admissions at UNC
North Carolina is urging the Supreme Court to throw out a watchdog group’s challenge to the University of North Carolina’s partially race-based admission policies. The case is Students for Fair Admissions Inc. v. University of North Carolina, court file 21-707, an appeal from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit. Students for Fair Admissions…
The Slow Tactic of Personnel
Commentary Anyone who has spent many years in a cultural/educational institution has observed a process unfold that might be called “Inching to the Left.” By “many years,” I mean decades, not just three or four, or even six or seven. It’s a slow process, very slow, and if you’re not vigilantly opposed to the direction…
South Africa Elections: Cycle of Failing Socialist Government Likely to Continue
Commentary Municipal and local government elections across the “Rainbow nation” will be running soon, on November 1, and they will serve as a litmus test for the four main political parties on how they may perform at the next national election. The 2021 elections have generated much debate on the shocking state of South African…
Who Benefits from Cancelling Achievement Standards?
Commentary In 2021 there’s an outright holy war against scholastic achievement. Oregon has passed a bill that suspends the requirement that students must be able to read, write, and do math to graduate from high school. Mathematics should be replaced, we are told, by “social justice” mathematics, in which there are no correct answers, and…
Merit Based Recognition: Becoming a Thing of the Past?
In this video, The War Against Merit, racial inequality is explored, especially in the context of recognition and advancement in the fields of education and industry being based on race instead of merit. Author, commentator, and host, Danielle D’Souza Gill discusses the topic of Asian American racial discrimination. She addresses the topics of college admissions,…
The Views of Citizens Are Ignored by Our Leftist Elites
Commentary There’s a chasm between American citizens and their views, and the views of the far-left elites of the Democratic Party, the media, big tech, “woke” universities and colleges, unions, and big business and finance. These elites suppress the views of the citizens, and then impose policies with which citizens don’t agree. It almost looks…
Orange County Activists Celebrate Victory Against Affirmative Action
As COVID-19 restrictions ease, members of an initiative to reject affirmative action in California gathered to celebrate their November victory fighting race-based preferences in the public sector. Proposition 16 would have allowed diversity to factor into public employment, education, and contracting decisions by amending the California Constitution to remove the current ban on affirmative action that prohibits the consideration of race, sex, ethnicity, and gender by…
Video: How Asian Success Challenges the Woke Racial Narrative—Kenny Xu and Kangmin Lee
As talk of systemic racism increasingly dominates society, at least one group doesn’t quite fit the narrative. At the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), we sat down with Kenny Xu, author of the upcoming book “An Inconvenient Minority,” and Kangmin Lee, a YouTuber and content creator, to discuss Asian-American success in America, woke ideology, and…
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Will Supreme Court Rule Affirmative Action a Mistake?; Mask Facts Exposed in New Book
The Supreme Court picked up a hot topic this week: affirmative action in college admissions. Is it legal to prefer some races over others? We’re joined by Ward Connerly, who has focused on this question for decades. He is the founding president of the American Civil Rights Institute and a former University of California Regent,…