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WHERE DOES WARD
CONNERLY GET HIS CASH?
Hiding behind a wall of willed ignorance, Ward Connerly and
his rich benefactors are leading a national assault on
diversity to systematically override federally mandated
efforts to undo the effects of past discrimination based on
race, color or gender, and by an attempt at the elimination
of racial identity; all of this, in the name of fairness and
equality. Let’s try honesty, and call this plan, “Excluded
and Invisible.”
Sociologist Michael Dyson states that the ingenuity of the
conservatives and the far right is that they have
deceitfully co-opted the rhetoric of the civil rights
movement against the very principles of freedom, equality,
and justice that the language originally stood for.
In-Arizona, anti-equal opportunity legislation was turned
back in the 1990s, and a state referendum failed in 1998.Clint
Bolick, who played a key role in building the assault on
equal opportunity in the 1990s from his perch at the
Institute for Justice, which he co-founded, is legal advisor
for the Arizona Civil Rights Initiative. Bolick helped to
start the Goldwater Center for Constitutional Litigation at
the Koch-funded Goldwater Institute in Phoenix. Who
are the Koch Brothers
Connerly (2005), Bolick (2006) have each received $250,000
in Bradley Foundation prizes for service to
the right wing infrastructure.
Connerly and Bolick teamed up with Andrew P. Thomas,
Russell Pearce and Rep. Steve Montenegro (R),
the only Hispanic to vote for SB 1070, to bring Proposition
107 to the ballot.
Grover Norquist,
head of Americans for Tax Reform, Bolick and Thomas
Rhodes, co-chair of Connerly’s American Civil Rights
Institute and president of the National Review, were
among the key founders and advisers of ACRI when it was
created in 1997. Mac McPhail, who is the former
communications director of Connerly’s Michigan effort and
former state chair of Michigan Young Americans for Freedom (YAF)
is the director of Connerly’s Arizona effort to end equal
opportunity. The Michigan State University chapter of Young
Americans for Freedom was listed as a hate group in 2006
by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
The Policy Makers
Federalist Society: $10.4M
Assets (2005): 6M
People: Roger Clegg, chair, civil-rights practice group;
Deputy Assistant Attorney of Civil Rights(1987-1991); Linda
Chavez, former member; staff director, U.S. Civil
Rights Commission (1983-1985); William Rehnquist, cofounder;
U.S. Supreme Court Justice; Political Commentator Ann
Coulter, founded local chapter while studying at the
University of Michigan Law School
The Think Tanks
Heritage Foundation: $45M
Assets (2005): 159M
People: Richard Mellon Scaife, vice chair, trustee; Linda
Chavez, former staff member; George W. Bushnominee for
Secretary of Labor (withdrawn); Elaine Chao, former
distinguished fellow, Secretary of Labor (current)
American Enterprise Institute: $30M
Assets (2005): $73M
People: Charles Murray, Bradley Fellow; author of The
Bell Curve:
Richard Cheney, trustee(1997-1999); U.S. Vice President,
president and CEO Halliburton Corp.
The Litigators
Pacific Legal Foundations: $4.3M (currently litigating
Supreme Court cases to end voluntary school-integration)
Assets (2005): $15M
People: Edwin Meese III, cofounder; cofounder, Federalist
Society; U.S. Attorney General (1986-1988); Heritage
Foundation fellow in public policy
Center for Individual Rights: $5.2M (litigated 2003
University of Michigan cases against affirmative action)
Assets (2006): $2.8M
People: Terrace Pell, president, Deputy Assistant Secretary
of Education for Civil Rights under former Secretary of
Education William Bennett; Larry Arnn, board, president of
Hillside College; Heritage board; Ann Counter, former staff
member
The Advocates
Institute of Justice: $4.8M
Assets (2005): $12.3M
People: Clint Bolick, cofounder; EEOC (1985-1986); author of
The Affirmative Action Fraud; Abigail
Thernstrom, board; vice chair, U.S. Civil Rights Commission;
board, Center for Equal Opportunity
American Civil Rights Institute: $4.7M
Assets (2005): $1.3M
People: Ward Connerly, chairman; University of California
Board of Regents (1993-2005); Thomas “Dusty” Rhodes,
co-chair; chairman, Bradley Foundation
Center for Equal Opportunity: $3M
Assets (2005):$0.2M
People: Linda Chavez, CEO and founder; Roger Clegg,
president, general counsel
This movement seeks to expand its influence through
persuasion and legislative action directed at its target
audience of whites aggrieved over the nation becoming
increasingly diverse. They yearn for the days of exclusion
and privilege.
The only way they can remain on top while the U.S. moves
inexorably to becoming a majority non-white country is to
constantly incite racial conflict. Racism works by keeping
people of color the center of attention, and white, ruling
class men the center of power.
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Equal Justice Society News -
Newsletter Summer 2007 - Notes on the ...
http://www.equaljusticesociety.org/newsetter_1-/story2.html
Id. At2
Who is Paying to End Affirmative
Action - DiversityInc.com
Paul Kivel - Uprooting Racism,
How White People Can Work for Racial Justice
San Francisco Chronicle, Dec.
31, 1997
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