Dr. Glynn Custred is an anthropology professor at California State Hayward and the co-author of California’s Proposition 209, which successfully made affirmative action, quotas and racial preferences illegal in California. Custred also recently co-authored a commentary in National Review with James Stockdale that revisits a past and upcoming battle in the theater of racial preferences.
This Sunday, WorldNetDaily staff writer and talk-show host Geoff Metcalf talks with Dr. Custred about the ongoing battle to dismantle racial preferences, both on a state level and nationally. During the interview, when asked about President Bush’s record on preferences and quotas, here’s one of the observations made by Custred:
This is what bothers me about Bush. During the campaign – actually even before that – during the primaries, he was asked two or three times about Proposition 209 that ended racial and ethnic preferences in California – and he dodged the issue each time. He said something about he does believe that people should be treated as individuals, and so forth, but he wasn’t going to talk about it.
OK, you might say he’s keeping his mouth shut because he doesn’t want the issue to come up as a part of his campaign. But if you go back, as I did, and look at his record as governor of Texas, there wasn’t a quota bill that came through that he objected to at all. In fact, Senator Lewis, the quota king there in Texas, praised him highly.
Just what is President Bush likely to do about quotas and preferences? What is happening in current court battles on this issue? Be sure not to miss this Sunday’s edition of WorldNetDaily and Metcalf’s revealing interview to find out the answers to these and other important questions.
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