The latest flashpoint in the conservative and far-right war against so-called “woke culture” is diversity, equity and inclusion programmes. They want to see the end of DEI because they believe these programmes present a real challenge to their efforts to rebuild the “white man’s country” they long for. In his 1965 commencement speech at the historically Black Howard University in …
The Republican activists leading a decades-long assault on affirmative action, which is poised to succeed in the Supreme Court, claim they want to eliminate racism and create a colorblind society. “The endgame for all of us is vanquishing this whole notion of diversity,” Connerly said at the event, which also featured prominent white nationalist Peter Brimelow, whose racist lies about …
Like many Americans on election night in November 2020, I nervously awaited the results of the presidential contest between Joe Biden and Donald Trump. Proposition 209: A law against affirmative action Twenty-four years ago, in 1996, voters in California passed Proposition 209, a law that prohibited the consideration of race, ethnicity or sex in public education, employment, and contracting. Ward …
TIMES STAFF WRITERS Proposition 209, the anti-affirmative action measure that sharply divided Californians with clashing images of civil rights leaders and ex-Klansman David Duke, won voters’ approval late Tuesday. Pete Wilson, an early and outspoken supporter of Proposition 209, said: “This sought to undo a terrible unfairness so that opportunity is offered not just to some Californians, but to all …
