Center for Equal Opportunity board member Rosalie Pedalino Porter recently testified before Congress in favor of legislation to make English the nation’s official language.  It earned her a mention in a New York Times editorial, and if the reference was not exactly to praise her, well, consider the source.  Great job, Dr. Porter! Related posts: TESTIMONY OF ROGER CLEGG, PRESIDENT AND GENERAL COUNSEL, CENTER FOR EQUAL OPPORTUNITY BEFORE THE U.S. COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS REGARDING THE PROPOSED EMPLOYMENT NON-DISCRIMINATION ACT Politicized external review panels as unguided “diversity” missiles: California university administrators remain ultra-slow learners HP Mandates Quotas “Diversity” and Other …

The Justice Department announced last week that it has put an end to racially discriminatory selection practices in an Alabama school district, where two high schools had black slots and nonblack slots for their homecoming queens and Valentine’s Day courts. The Department’s press release complained that the “schools considered race” and had “race-based selection criteria.” The release proudly declares that now, thanks to the Obama administration, the school district “will end the use of race-based election and selection criteria in all student activities.” After all, the release concludes, the Department must enforce “Title IV of the Civil Rights Act of …

Last week President Obama announced in a speech to the Urban League that he was going to sign an executive order launching a White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African-Americans, to be housed in the Education Department.And, later in the week, he did. Related posts: Did Juan Williams libel LU’s Hans Bader? Disparate Impact Delenda Est Just hire the best qualified! Roger Clegg testifies regarding H.R. 40

Not only will the Supreme Court be taking on the issue of racial and ethnic preferences in university admissions this fall when it hears Fisher v. University of Texas, but it may well be hearing important civil-rights cases involving voting and housing, too. Related posts: TESTIMONY OF ROGER CLEGG, PRESIDENT AND GENERAL COUNSEL, CENTER FOR EQUAL OPPORTUNITY BEFORE THE U.S. COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS REGARDING THE PROPOSED EMPLOYMENT NON-DISCRIMINATION ACT We Need More Bills Like This 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act The Right Way to Interpret the Voting Rights Act

Many conservatives were unhappy with the Supreme Court’s failure to strike down Obamacare, but here’s a silver lining:  The Left and the Mainstream Media had been doomsaying all year about how the Roberts Court was going to be willy-nilly striking down laws and upsetting legal precedent in pursuit of some far-right agenda.  Well, that didn’t happen.  So next term, when the Court hears Fisher v. University of Texas, raising the issue of racial preferences in university admissions, it will be much easier now for the Court to do the right thing and put an end to this nonsense.  (And, no, …

The University of Minnesota–Duluth has launched a bizarre campaign to raise awareness of “white privilege.”  The accompanying video has to be seen to be believed.  This is white guilt on steroids:  You have to be living in a different world if you believe that people who happen to have white skin (and who may or may not have had an easy time of it in life) ought to feel apologetic to anyone who does not share that skin color (and who may or may not have had a hard time in life).  Oh, well. Related posts: TESTIMONY OF ROGER CLEGG, …

With everyone waiting for the Supreme Court’s decision in the Obamacare case, I coauthored a piece in the Christian Science Monitor last week that explained why a case that will be decided next year also has important health implications – but, in its case, it’s the health of the country’s race relations that is at stake.  You can read the whole piece here, but here are some excerpts: The U.S. Supreme Court will soon decide one of the most consequential cases in years – the challenge to the new federal health care law, often known as Obamacare. But right behind …

Last week, at the invitation of Maryland’s state advisory committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, the Center for Equal Opportunity submitted testimony for a hearing on the subject of “Racial Disparities in Incarceration Rates” in Maryland’s state prisons.  It is becoming common to assert that such disparities – that is, the fact that some racial groups are “disproportionately” represented among prison inmates – somehow prove that the criminal justice system must be racist. Related posts: Roger Clegg testifies regarding H.R. 40 Did Juan Williams libel LU’s Hans Bader? Minority Access to Higher Education Americans Overwhelmingly Reject Racial Preferences …