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Government Activity

Preferences, quotas, and discrimination based on characteristics such as race and ethnicity remain present in government activities at the federal, state, and local levels. Executive Orders, memoranda, legislation, and many other government actions advance harmful and divisive concepts. Government has a legal and moral duty to promote colorblind equal opportunity and nondiscrimination in America.

The Center for Equal Opportunity praised the Supreme Court’s decisions in the Seattle and Louisville school cases today. CEO chairman Linda Chavez said: “Today’s decisions vindicate the principle in Brown v. Board of Education that schoolchildren should not be assigned to schools on the basis of skin color. It is a victory for parents and students of all races.” CEO president and general counsel Roger Clegg said: “As America becomes increasingly a multiracial and multiethnic society, it also becomes more and more untenable to have laws that categorize our people because of race and national origin.” Both Chavez and Clegg …