Creating Equal: My Fight Against Race Preferences
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| Rating | : | 4.87 (904 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1594032181 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 298 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-11-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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Connerly has generated strong reactions, many of them negative, ever since he burst on the scene as a University of California regent opposed to racial preferences in student admissions. --John J. Because he is black (or, more accurately, of mixed black, white, and Indian ancestry), Connerly was derisively labeled an "Uncle Tom" for his efforts. Political figures don't often write books worth reading, but Connerly can both turn a good phrase (liberals, he says, "need to believe that Rosa Parks is still stuck in the back of the bus, even though we live in a time when Oprah is on a billboard on the side of the bus") and tell a good story (as when he describes tracking down his long-lost biological father in Louisiana). Conservatives will applaud Creating Equal, while many of Connerly's sparring partners will recognize its thoughtfulness: "Affirmative action was the kissing cousin of welfare, a
CREATING EQUAL Creates Second Thoughts Over my life course, I have read many books on race relations, social justice, and social inequality. Ward Connerly book's CREATING EQUAL: MY FIGHT AGAINST RACE PREFERENCES will be one of the most memorable. Why? Ward Connerly does not take the popular position.Readers do not have to like him or his ideas to realize that Connerly is a man a great courage. He is well known and even hated for his position on affirmative action. However, reading his elegant words within CREATING EQUAL creates second thoughts among those who are strongly opposed to his ideology. Conne. M. A. Treu said Fighting the Injustices of the Civil Rights Industry. A powerful portrayal of the violent, hate-based, anti-white underbelly of the civil rights industry in Amreica, woven neatly into the autobiography of a black man struggling for true racial equality.Here is clear and convincing evidence of the trials and tribulations a man of color is forced to confront, when he seeks "justice for all" in the one-sided, Europhobic world of "race norming" and "Affirmative Discrimination" in America.Ward Connerly, tells how he was successful in eliminating institutionalized racial preferences in some cases -- but at great cost. Conn. A man of honor, duty, country; philosopher, leader, Patriot! J. P. Ledbetter Ward Connerly is continuing the quest and the dream of his Uncle James. A man who knew that it took sacrifice, tenacity and perseverance to reach any goal.Ward's Uncle James also knew that sometimes it takes the ultimate sacrifice by one generation or even two or three to provide that golden opportunity, which America offers to those who know the prize that waits at the end of that long road of trial and tribulation. The prize that can and does wait for the next generation, or the next, or the next of every American who can still dream.This is a realization lost a
A personal book that gives the inside story of Connerly's battle against race preferences, Creating Equal names names and tells it like it is. From his impoverished childhood in segregated pre-war Louisiana to his audience with Bill Clinton at the White House, Ward Connerly's panoramic book spans a civil rights story that's making headlines from coast to coast. Connerly's encounters with the great and near great ranging from Jesse Jackson and Al Gore to Bill Clinton and Rupert Murdoch illuminate this book that has been praised by writers such as Shelby Steele. Illustrated with family and political photographs.. It is destined to provoke debate from the dining room table to the halls of Congress. He is now battling Governor Jeb Bush in Florida as he attempts to put a Florida Civil Rights Initiative on the ballot there. Since 1995, when Connerly first burst onto the American scene as the University of California Regent who forced the nation's largest public university to become color blind in its admissions policies, Connerly has led a national campaign to end race preference. In 1996, he passed Proposition 209 in California and two years later he led I-200, an identical measure, to victory in Washington state