Your Anti-Discrimination Hotline In most instances, the use of preferences on the basis of race or ethnicity in education, employment, or government contracting violates federal law. This is true even in cases of “affirmative action” and “diversity” programs. The Center for Equal Opportunity is interested in hearing about such discrimination. In many instances, we may be able to do something about it. This is especially true when the discrimination is openly stated–as is often the case, believe it or not. CEO will not serve as your attorney, but in many cases we will contact the alleged discriminator, and in other …
Quotas, Quotas Everywhere
In a Wall Street Journal interview this month about “the need to focus more on women” by corporations, McKinsey & Co.’s global managing director, Dominic Barton, says: “So if I think about appointments I would do, if I have a choice between a man and a woman and they’re equal in what they’ll do, I will defer to the woman.” And Debra Lee, chairman and chief executive of Viacom Inc.’s BET Networks, says: “And it’s not about quotas. It’s about making sure you have representation on your executive team, and whether that’s minorities or women, whatever it is, you have to …
Sane Stern, Crazy Cuomo
The sports section of Monday’s New York Times has a long puff piece on Richard Lapchick and how he pushes for “diversity” (that is, race-based hiring practices) in professional and amateur sports. But in the middle of the predictable pabulum is a bracing dissenting note from NBA commissioner David Stern: Lapchick said he began receiving more cooperation in the years after Bud Selig and Roger Goodell became commissioners of M.L.B. and the N.F.L. But Commissioner David Stern, whose N.B.A. has historically received higher grades than the other leagues, argued that Lapchick’s good intentions—when carried to routine—missed the essential aim of fair-minded …
Surprise result when city ends preferences in contracting
Supporters of racial and gender preferences in public contracting claim that preferences are needed because, without them, few contracts would go to minority- or women-owned firms. But a study recently done for Charlotte, N.C., reached exactly the opposite conclusion. After race and gender preferences ended, work awarded to minority- and women-owned businesses increased. How can that be? A bit of history is needed: Not long ago, Charlotte had a Minority- and Women-owned Business Enterprise (MWBE) program with preferential goals in its public contracts. The goals were suspended in 2002 as the result of a court challenge. The following year the …
Back to Madison!
The Center for Equal Opportunity went back to Madison, Wisconsin, this week! Our studies revealing the heavy weight given to race and ethnicity in undergrad and law school admissions at the University of Wisconsin prompted a hearing at the state legislature. The chairman of the relevant committee is no friend of this kind of discrimination, and we were asked to testify. The hearings went very well, and you can read my testimony on ceo’s website at www.ceousa.org . As you know, our earlier visit to Wisconsin last month was a great success. With the protestors, politically correct university officials, and all the media …
A Colorblind America
Could anyone have imagined even a few years ago that the 2012 U.S. presidential race might end up as a contest between two black candidates? I certainly couldn’t have. Yet, with Republican candidate Herman Cain’s recent surge in popularity, the possibility is there. This says a great deal about race in America — all of it good. Related posts: Arizona Bids Adios to Illegal Immigrant Basher Suggested Reading on Civil Rights Issues Did Juan Williams libel LU’s Hans Bader? Drop in Illegal Immigration Opens Door for Real Reform
Affirmative action and football
When I’m debating the issue—as I frequently do—I often hear the following analogy used as a justification for affirmative action: Suppose that there were a game between two football teams, and during the first half one of the teams enjoyed all kinds of unfair advantages—its players were allowed to cheat in various ways, the referees made all kinds of unfair calls, and so forth. As a result, that team ran up a big lead. Then, after halftime, it was announced that from now on there would be no more cheating and bias—but the score was left unchanged and the opposing …
Standardized Testing Under Attack … Again
As predictably as fall marks the beginning of the new school year in campuses across the country, so, too, does it usher in new attacks on standardized testing. The 2011 version comes in the form of a new book, “SAT Wars,” a collection of essays that purports to be an authoritative account of the controversy over one particular test used by most selective universities in their admissions process. But far from being an unbiased account of the pros and cons of using any standardized test — much less the SAT, one of the most thoroughly studied, modified, and continuously validated …
Here’s Linda Chavez on The O’Reilly Factor
In case you missed it, here’s Center for Equal Opportunity chairman Linda Chavez on The O’Reilly Factor last Friday, talking about the studies that the CEO released last week in Madison, Wisconsin, that revealed severe racial preferences in state university undergrad and law school admissions there—and talking about the thuggish reception we received in Madison. Related posts: BAMN! The Center for Equal Opportunity Zaps Racial Preferences Colorblind Law Politicized external review panels as unguided “diversity” missiles: California university administrators remain ultra-slow learners Does Equal Protection Violate the Equal Protection Clause?
Racial Preferences in Wisconsin
The campus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison erupted this week after the release of two studies documenting the heavy use of race in deciding which students to admit to the undergraduate and law schools. The evidence of discrimination is undeniable, and the reaction by critics was undeniably dishonest and thuggish. Related posts: New Studies Show Severe Racial Discrimination at University of Wisconsin New CEO Report: If California Restores Race Discrimination: Implications for Higher Education Madison Mob Madness Standardized Testing Under Attack … Again