CEO in the News – 2016

CEO StaffCEO in the News

What Will The Trump Supreme Court Look Like? Lawful – 12/28/16 University Of Texas Regent Forced To Sue To Get Key Information Embarrassing To Bigwigs Forbes – 12/23/16 Obama Press Conference Draws Attention Away from Controversial Appointments Newsline – 12/19/16 Prison inmates can vote in Maine, and interest this year has been high Bangor Daily News – 11/4/16 Do California parents want bilingual education? Christian Science Monitor – 10/26/16 Virginia makes progress in push to restore voting rights for ex-convicts The Guardian – 10/14/16 Unable to Vote, Ex-Convicts Reach Out, Try to Have Impact on US Election VOA – 10/12/16 …

CEO Praises Justice Department

Roger CleggRacial Preferences

Last week was a busy one here at the Center for Equal Opportunity. After word broke in the New York Times late Tuesday that the Justice Department was planning to take on affirmative action in college admissions (a story I was quoted in), a predictable media frenzy was unleashed to cover the story. Of course, the usual suspects on the Left attacked the Trump administration and played the race card, labeling any effort to stop racial preferences in college admissions as “racist,” but the Center for Equal Opportunity was out in full force to applaud the Justice Department and educate the public on the legal and …

CEO Praises Justice Department’s Announcement

CEO StaffPress Releases

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Tuesday, August 2, 2017 CONTACT:    Roger Clegg (703) 442-0066 CEO Praises Justice Department’s Announcement   Affirmative action in college admissions should be examined (Falls Church, VA) The Center for Equal Opportunity praises yesterday’s announcement on affirmative action in college admissions by the Justice Department. It is a welcome and overdue development that the administration will be taking a hard look at schools that insist on weighing skin color and national origin in deciding who gets admitted. Such discrimination is lamentable, although, unfortunately, the Supreme Court has not shut the door on it. However, the Court has made clear that …

“Why Obama’s Presidency Didn’t Lead To Black Progress”

Roger CleggUncategorized

Last week I wrote briefly about a new book by Jason Riley, False Black Power?  (Mr. Riley, by the way, recently joined the Center for Equal Opportunity’s board of directors.)  This week, as  a summertime treat, I’m sharing the excerpt from this book that was recently published by the New York Post.  Enjoy! *          *          * Why Obama’s Presidency Didn’t Lead To Black Progress Since the 1960s, black leaders have placed a heavy emphasis on gaining political power, and Barack Obama’s presidency represented the apex of those efforts. The assumption — rarely challenged — is that black political clout must come …

Art for Color’s Sake

Roger CleggEmployment

New York City mayor Bill de Blasio wants to coerce museums and arts groups that receive city money into using hiring quotas based on race and ethnicity, according to the New York Times. But it would be illegal for employers to give in to this pressure, because Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act forbids such discrimination. Federal statute aside, it is unconstitutional for the city to engage in such pressuring. Any use of racial and ethnic classifications is “presumptively invalid” and triggers “strict scrutiny,” which can be met only if, for starters, there is a “compelling” government interest. …

“Diversity” and Other Euphemisms

Roger CleggEducation

Last week, the Los Angeles Times ran an op-ed complaining that the word “diversity” is a euphemism, since its proponents really want nothing more than nondiscrimination.  My published rejoinder to this dubious claim: I wish it were true that those asking for “diversity” were asking only for nondiscrimination, as Noah Berlatsky writes. But in many contexts the opposite is true: The last thing they want is nondiscrimination, and what they are asking for is precisely discrimination, albeit of the politically correct sort. (“‘Diversity’ is a euphemism. We should be careful how we use it,” Opinion, July 10) Thus, when universities …

Color-Coded Meds

Roger CleggUncategorized

Professor Mark J. Perry has posted some important data that show graphically (in both senses of the word) the extent to which racial preferences are used in medical-school admissions. “Bottom Line: Medical school acceptance rates in recent years suggest that medical schools must have ‘affirmative discrimination’ and ‘racial profiling’ admission policies that favor black and Hispanic applicants over equally qualified Asian and white students.” And, as is almost always the case with university admissions (see numerous studies by the Center for Equal Opportunity here— scroll down), race is weighed not lightly but heavily indeed: For students applying to medical school …

The President, the Senate, and the EEOC

Roger CleggUncategorized

There are five commissioner slots on the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. At the beginning of last week, only one was a Republican; three were Democrats, and there was one vacancy.  Last Saturday, on July 1, there opened up another vacancy, because this Democrat’s term expired. What this means is that, if the two vacancies are filled quickly, we could have a 3-2 Republican majority; if they are not, we will have a 2-1 Democrat majority. The EEOC enforces all the private sector antidiscrimination employment laws, so this is a big deal. Does the administration have anything in the works, …

Between Flag Day and July 4th

Roger CleggUncategorized

This week finds us between Flag Day and the Fourth of July, so what better time to think about what it means to be an American and, in particular, what values all Americans should hold in common. Earlier this year, President Trump promised, “So in the coming days, we will develop a system to help ensure that those admitted into our country fully embrace our values of religious and personal liberty, and that they reject any form of oppression and discrimination.  We want people to come into our nation, but we want people to love us and to love our …