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THE ELIMINATION OF RACIAL IDENTITY

In 1997, Ward Connerly began an alliance with prominent members of what has become known as the multiracial movement.  Connerly forged ties with the publishers of Interracial Voice and The Multiracial activist, publications for the movement.  Eventually, Connerly enlisted the help of several outspoken members to assist with the execution of the Racial Privacy Initiative (RPI).1

The Racial Privacy Initiative

(Color Me Gone)

Ward Connerly's RPI would bar the collection by states of racial and ethnic data.  "Our emphasis is really on trying to get the nation to think less about the issue of race.  It's an obsession with our country . . . we're going to have to get rid of the government even asking people to make a declaration about their race . . . these racial categories don't make any sense."2

A RPI would hide racial differences in health care, education, and disease, making it harder to hold discriminatory organizations and institutions responsible for their deeds.  Studies on racial profiling, disparate medical treatment for people of color, minority rates of incarceration, racial composition of juries, pass/fail rates for students of different races, racial composition of juries, loan approval rates for minorities -- knowing all this and more would be forbidden.  A "color-blind" society would be achieved by blinding citizens and government to the facts of bias.  Racial peace will reign in the land, they theory goes, since there will be no official racist facts available to argue about.3

All private and public agencies would be allowed to engage in racist practices without fear of state information-gathering used to track discrimination.

The RPI was put on the ballot in California in 2003 and failed.  It is the multiracial movement's task to be Connerly's cheerleaders and keep the initiative alive.  Connerly, imbued with deceptive promises of "eliminating racial discrimination," is determined to bring it back.  www.blackcommentator.com/52/52_connerly.html

Equal opportunity isn’t Connerly’s only target.  In a quote appearing in the San Francisco Examiner, Connerly said that he wasn’t convinced ethnic studies reflected “a sound academic curriculum rather than the political correctness mind set.”  In the same article he called for a review of “all of the infrastructure created back in the 1970s and ‘80s as a result of black nationalism and the black power movement.

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1California Proposition 54 (2003), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_54_2003
2Diversity Inc, http://www.diversityinc.com/content/1757/article/7536
3The Black Commentator, http://www.blackcommentator.com/52/52_connerly_pf.html

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