For over a quarter century, the Center for Equal Opportunity (CEO) has been the leading conservative organization opposing race-based policies and discrimination at all levels of government, education, and in employment. We are guided by the principle of colorblind equal opportunity embodied in our nation’s original motto—E Pluribus Unum, Out of Many, One—a principle embraced by the vast majority of the American people.
Our founder and chairman, Linda Chavez, has been a dominant voice in the debates on race and ethnicity for nearly fifty years, having worked in both the legislative and executive branches, writing for both scholarly and popular publications, and appearing as a regular commentator on national networks and in the press.
Many agencies of government, universities, businesses and other institutions do not share our commitment to colorblind public policy. It is therefore imperative that we monitor, expose, and challenge policies that stray from this principle. We do so in the court of public opinion, at every level of government, and in the courts of law.
It is more important than ever that we find support for our mission to advance colorblind equal opportunity for all. We face an existential threat to the American way of life. The insistence that we must produce equal outcomes among groups defined by skin color, national origin, or gender perverts the American understanding of justice based on individual rights. It is achievable only by substituting totalitarian methods that trample those rights. We are committed to fighting these efforts to transform America and pray others will courageously stand with us in defending the core principle of equality under law.