He made big headlines in the ’90s with his efforts to ban affirmative action, garnering high praise from Newt Gingrich and other rightists. Connerly is still at it — he was behind the deceptively named Michigan Civil Rights Initiative, a ballot proposal that passed in November 2006 but is now facing legal challenges.
I’m late in noticing this, but it shouldn’t go unmentioned here: the Ku Klux Klan publicly backed the Initiative, and Ward Connerly just as publicly welcomed their support.
You could say that Connerly is the African-American Gilad Atzmon: a callous dimwit who is so consumed with his pet cause that he’ll openly ally himself with the racist ultra-right to get his message across.
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