The University of Michigan’s president does her best George Wallace impersonation Affirmative Action Is Here To Stay(not)

Posted by on 11/20/2006

Michigan voters went to the polls on November 7, 2006, and 58% said no to Affirmative Action, approving an amendment to the state constitution banning racial discrimination in public universities and contracting. That isn’t good enough for Mary Sue Coleman, the president of the University of Michigan, Detroit’s Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick , and the ACLU.

Coleman:

  • “Diversity matters at Michigan,” she declared. “It matters today, and it will matter tomorrow.” Echoes of George Wallace, who in 1963 declared from the steps of Alabama’s Capitol: “I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.”

    • Kilpatrick:

  • “Bring it on!” he bellowed. “We will affirm to the world that affirmative action will be here today, it will be here tomorrow, and there will be affirmative action in the state forever.”

    • ACLU:

  • “I do think it’s necessary for the courts to slow this thing down and . . . interpret some of the language,” she told the Washington Post.

    • That “thing” is an amendment that simply states: “The state shall not discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting.” As the blog Discriminations.us notes, “What part of that language does the ACLU find vague or unclear and in need of “interpretation’?”

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    3 Comments.

    1. PCD 11/20/2006 at November 20, 2006 - 08:27 AM

      And I quote Yogi Berra, “It ain’t over until it’s over!”

      The last bastion of brain-dead liberalism is the courts. Start impeaching judges now.

    2. Peejz 11/20/2006 at November 20, 2006 - 08:49 AM

      The attempts to get this taken off the ballot failed. There is nothing illegal about this amendment to our state constitution. I am not quite sure where Coleman is coming from. The only thing I can think of is that she has to try to justify the millions she spent!

    3. snowy egret 11/20/2006 at November 20, 2006 - 01:55 PM

      Its time to end affermative action and tell JESSIE JACKASSON to get a life:razz: