ACORN consistently gets behind issues I feel are important, on the side of the angels.
ACORN celebrates failure of anti-affirmative action measure
05/05/2008 12:19 am
Leaders of ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) happily sent out a release Sunday evening lauding that “organizers of the so-called Missouri Civil Rights Initiative, led by rich California political operative Ward Connerly, failed to turn in signatures today in an attempt to qualify their initiative to ban affirmative action programs in Missouri.”
As ACORN rightly points out, “Signature petitions for all initiatives seeking to qualify for Missouri’s November ballot were due today in Secretary of State Robin Carnahan’s Jefferson City office. When the 5 pm deadline rolled around, it became clear that MoCRI organizers were abandoning their efforts in Missouri….”
Brandon Davis, a spokesman for the WeCAN coalition, which opposed the ballot proposal, asserted in a statement that its supporters gave up because “Missourians have spoken loudly and clearly over the last several months – and they have said that Missouri will remain a state that embraces the value of fairness, and the goal of creating an equal playing field for women and racial minorities. Affirmative action programs have been one of the most effective tools in achieving these goals in the arenas of public education and public contracting.”
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Hip hip hooray!!
And by the by, affirmative action doesn't displace white workers and/or students. Even if every unemployed African American man was given a job over a white man, that would only displace 1%.
http://www.understandingprejudice.org/readroom/articles/affirm.htm
Ward Connely needs to check his facts.
In combination with the
In combination with the ACLU, ACORN has screwed students in Baltimore City every time. Both get money for "winning" civil lawsuits, but no real progress is made in the suits filed against the city.
And who is supposed to make
And who is supposed to make that progress? The side that lost, that's who.
You're mad at the wrong people.