Would an anti-affirmative action ballot issue pass?

[gollygee]

I'm afraid it would and will. What does everyone else think?

http://wwmt.com/engine.pl?station=wwmt&id=13415&template=breakout_state.html

LANSING (AP) - Opponents of affirmative action say they're close to putting the issue to a statewide vote in 2006.

The Michigan Civil Rights Initiative must turn in 318,000 valid signatures of voters to qualify for the ballot.

The group must collect all those signatures within 180 days, which would bring a January deadline for an effort that began last summer. They back a state constitutional amendment barring state universities and agencies from giving preference based on race, national origin or sex.

A group called Citizens for a United Michigan opposes the proposal.

[papau]

1. What does "preference" mean - any decision is an expression of

preference.

The basis of that decision could be ability at overcoming society's roadblocks to females, wrong "race" or national origin.

Any effective dump on affirmative action would need to write into law the achievements of a person that are to be ignored in an evaluation.

Hell - I can see myself voting for a law against giving preference based on race, national origin or sex if there was not some adversity due to those items that was overcome.


If the law has some wording that all achievements of a person must be included in any evaluation, that law is not a problem.

[stavka]

2. It will pass if it gets on the ballot.

The majority of voters don't like blacks, hispanics, or native americans...they think they are stealing from them either literally or through their being taxed to support programs that benefit only minorities.

There is enough truth in both statements to sedate the fence sitters.

Nobody cares about women and affirmative action anymore except highschool basketball programs.

The trick is to make sure it never gets to the ballot.

Michigan failed terribly in preventing this with proposal two.

"when they came for me, nobody was left"