Malaysia makes bold changes in race-based policies

The economic downturn is allowing Malaysia's leader to chip away at an affirmative action program for Malay Muslims that has been considered virtually untouchable in the past.

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Obama: Court leaves room for affirmative action

President Barack Obama said Thursday the Supreme Court is "moving the ball" to limit affirmative action, but he stressed that its ruling in favor of white firefighters still allows employers and educators to take race into account in hiring, promotions and admissions.

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Correction: Ethnic media story

In a March 29 story about the ethnic media, The Associated Press misreported the name of the organization headed by David Lee. Lee is executive director of the Chinese American Voters Education Committee, not Chinese for Affirmative Action.

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Colorado voters reject affirmative action ban

Colorado voters became the first in the nation to reject a ban on state affirmative action programs, narrowly defeating a measure that California businessman Ward Connerly has helped pass in four other states.

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Neb. officials reviewing affirmative action ban

At Southeast Community College, Jose J. Soto may have to change his title: vice president of affirmative action.

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Neb. voters approve ban on affirmative action

Nebraska voters have approved a ban on government-sponsored affirmative action.

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Affirmative action before voters in Colo., Neb.

University of Colorado freshman Darian Salehy loves college life so far — except for one thing.

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Thomas says Constitution forbids racial preference

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas said Tuesday that African-Americans are better served by colorblind programs than affirmative action.

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Ariz. ballot campaign on affirmative action ends

Supporters of a proposal to ban affirmative action in Arizona said Friday they were abandoning a lawsuit aimed at getting the measure on the Nov. 4 ballot.

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3 states to consider affirmative action ban

With one brief criticism of affirmative action, John McCain has brought new attention to ballot issues aimed at dismantling preferential treatment programs for women and minorities.

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McCain backs ban on affirmative action in Arizona

Presidential candidate John McCain on Sunday endorsed a proposal to ban affirmative action programs in his home state, a policy that Democratic rival Barack Obama called a disappointing embrace of divisive tactics.

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Might Obama's success undercut affirmative action?

Barack Obama's political success might claim an unintended victim: affirmative action, a much-debated policy he supports.

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Mich. Affirmative Action Lawsuit Tossed

A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit Tuesday that challenged a Michigan law banning racial and gender preferences in government hiring and public university admissions.

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Court: Mich. Schools Can't Admit on Race

A federal appeals court ruled Friday that three Michigan universities should not have been given a six-month extension to comply with parts of a new state law banning some public affirmative action programs.

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Mich. Weighs Ban on Affirmative Action

Jennifer Gratz was turned away from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1995. The white high school honor student suspects she would have been admitted if she were black or Hispanic.

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Poll: Mich. Split on Affirmative Action

A ballot measure that would scrap many of Michigan's affirmative action programs is running about even in a new poll published Monday, with 41 percent of likely voters saying they would approve it and 43 percent opposed.

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India Threatens to Fire Hundreds of Docs

India's government threatened Tuesday to fire hundreds of government doctors striking to protest an affirmative action plan for low-caste Hindus and said replacements would prop up crippled medical services.

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Is affirmative action outdated?

I heard a very heated debate a couple nights ago on talk radio about affirmative action and whether or not it is still needed.

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The decision by Judge Sam Sparks strongly upheld the admissions policies at the University of Texas at Austin as consistent with the Supreme Court ruling -- and rejected the argument that Texas had failed to meet the tests set out by the Supreme Court.

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excerpt: ""It has taken a real crisis to combat the very successful campaign strategy that Atwater championed to win George H.W. Bush the White House in '88. The same techniques that Karl Rove mastered and implemented in beating McCain and then Gore in 2000 and Kerry in 2004.

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This is a clip from "The War Room with Quinn & Rose" Jim Quinn slings some racial mud for anyone that will listen to him. An example: "The alleged President Obama couldn't resist....he is a community organizer that is all he is."

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This guy basically throws PC aside as he lays it all out and says it how it really is.

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MSNBC, time to part company with crazy uncle Pat

I watched MSNBC's crazy Uncle Pat Buchanan have a mental breakdown, last night, right before my eyes. I thought we had turned the corner and where heading downhill on race in America, but crazy Uncle Pat has just changed my mind.

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President Obama delivered a fiery sermon to black America on Thursday night, warning black parents that they must accept their own responsibilities by "putting away the Xbox and putting our kids to bed at a reasonable hour," and telling black children that growing up poor is  …

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"Our national myth is the log cabin," Rice said. "That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things." That's what has brought immigrants to this country for years, she said. "We've got to keep welcoming these people," Rice said.

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She also testified that her speech was intended to be instructive about the need to put bias aside. But that was hardly what she had said. Instead, she told the audience in 2001:

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We should be celebrating Judge Sotomayor, only someone that sees intellect and wisdom in George W. Bush could view this woman as less than qualified.

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The Content of Their Character

The Supreme Court's recent Ricci, et al. v. DeStefano, et al. decision has major implications for the future in terms of affirmative action.

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Excerpt: ""Colin Powell, one of the nation's most prominent African-Americans, is going after people who attacked Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor because of her stand in favor of affirmative action.

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excerpt: ""Bill O'Reilly never has liberals fill in for him when he takes a vacation, so I was surprised to see Juan Williams in the anchor chair Wednesday night.

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The defenders of the old racial order, led by Ginsburg, objected sternly, declaring that the white firemen "had no vested right to promotion." Of course they didn't, but they did have a vested right to fairness, to not being denied promotion because of their skin color.

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In April, Hannity presented an "investigation" into the case that similarly excluded the civil rights perspective and also included reporter Ainsley Earhardt's freely shared opinions in favor of the firefighters and against the City of New Haven's decision to throw out t …

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Nothing gets the right wing's panties in a bunch more than a hyper-qualified person of color. And if that person happens to have a vagina...? Fuggedaboutit.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. city of New Haven, Connecticut violated the law by throwing out a promotion exam after it yielded too many qualified white applicants and no acceptable black candidates, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday in a major civil rights decision.

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We haven't heard a lot lately about discrimination in the job market. Perhaps the economic crisis has pushed it into the background.

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Mr. Obama says that "no one could question" Ms. Sotomayor's intellect since she was second in her class at Princeton and served as the editor of the Yale Law Review.

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Should Whites Be Responsible For Minority Mediocrity? My reply

This article is In response to John Russel's Article Should Whites be Responsible for Minority Mediocrity

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Should Whites Be Responsible For Minority Mediocrity?

I was reading an article about the Sotomayor nomination, by Shelby Steele , yesterday, and something he wrote struck a nerve in me concerning my own support for affirmative action.

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The Sotomayor nomination commits the cardinal sin of identity politics: It seeks to elevate people more for the political currency of their gender and ethnicity than for their individual merit.

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Senatorial Deference and the Sotomayor Nomination

In 1857, a letter regarding undue deference to Hindu idol-worship was published in the city of Allahabad, India.

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what criterion constitutes race itself nowadays, when almost every family has someone who is half-Hispanic, a quarter-Asian, one-half black, or part Pakistani? What percentage of one's lineage ensures purity of race, or qualifies for minority status? Are California Hispanics mi …

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Old white guys can be a funny bunch, can't they? The same anti-same-sex marriage, anti-affirmative action cadre can flower into the biggest supporters of "equality" the minute they get a whiff of minority empowerment.

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