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The Center for Equal Opportunity’s Roger Clegg has a blog post up at Minding the Campus about the Duke study I blogged about on Monday. His is a great title and sums up the main objection nicely: No Research, Please, Unless It Helps Our Cause The study revealed that white students enter college with higher [...]

Republican politicians usually stay away from “affirmative action.” If the topic doesn’t come up in conversation, most don’t bring it up. If it does come up, they stick to platitudes. I’m waiting for the Republican who includes racial preferences in his platform, with a campaign promise to abolish this practice in government. The Center for [...]

The Washington Post published Roger Clegg’s long letter to the editor in response to hiring more Hispanic teachers: “The gist of the Nov. 16 news article ‘In search of Hispanic teachers‘ was that, because the number of Hispanic students is growing, Prince George’s County public schools and school systems elsewhere want to hire more Hispanic [...]

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Alice Purkiss: Clegg slams Belarus dictator The Free Speech Blog: Official blog of Index on Censorship

The victory of the civil rights movement was the dismantling of government-mandated and –sponsored discrimination. The non-legal battle was to dismantle stereotypes about blacks and to promote the individual. To be judged by character rather than by race: that’s the ideal to which people strived. In 2011, it’s as though time looped back on itself. [...]

The Center for Equal Opportunity’s Roger Clegg responds to a Salt Lake Tribune editorial in support of racial preferences. The final paragraph of the editorial is most telling: “Utah is largely homogeneous, with white men dominating leadership in all areas. They don’t need protection from programs meant simply to give others an equal chance.” Let’s [...]

The Center for Equal Opportunity‘s Roger Clegg penned an op-ed for the Washington Times about disparate impact in school discipline. Black students are more likely to be disciplined by schools than white students. If black children are treated differently because of their race, that would be a problem. But we know that’s not the case. [...]