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Action
Alerts
Affirmative
Action
URGE
BUSH TO ACT NOW AGAINST RACIAL PREFERENCES
President George W. Bush has a great opportunity to urge the U.S.
Supreme Court to oppose affirmative action. He can tell the
Justices, in a legal brief, that his administration opposes the
University of Michigan's policies, which are based on racial
preferences.
No date has been set for oral arguments, but the Justice
Department must
decide by Jan. 16 whether to file a brief in the case. Your help
is needed at LibertyPetitions.com to make sure it does. Here's
where you can make a difference: http://www.libertypetitions.com/petition.html?name=no_racial_preference
The Supreme Court should make clear that greater student body
diversity does not justify racial and ethnic discrimination.
Americans have seen institutionalized discrimination in favor of
whites be replaced with institutionalized discrimination against
whites (and Asians) in less than a generation. And two wrongs
don't make a right.
And as the American Civil Rights Institute (www.acri.org)
points out in its brief on the case, the harm caused by the use
of such racial and ethnic preferences are significant for a
number of reasons. For the full list, click here:
http://www.libertypetitions.com/petition.html?name=no_racial_preference
Now is the time for President Bush -- and you -- to act. Call on
the President to tell the Supreme Court his administration
opposes the University of Michigan's policies. Sign the petition
to President Bush and strike a blow that could help turn the tide
of this long battle against affirmative action and move our
nation toward a more color-blind society where equal justice
under the law is once again the law of the land.
Let's swamp the White House in petitions before Jan. 16 and give
President Bush the support he needs to influence the Supreme
Court.
Ward Connerly
American Civil Rights Institute
Although
the date has passed, and Bush has sent a friend of the court
brief, this issue needs working anyway, the more signatures on
this petition the better.
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