Ending racial preferences in Wolverine State

Advancement based on competition is the bedrock of the American success story. Michigan is a classic representative model of this. While industry, arts, medicine, ad nauseam have survived brutal competition – both in the domestic and global economies – nowhere do we witness more ruthless competition than in the state's athletic sector. From basketball to track and field, from baseball to wrestling, to soccer, boxing and football, from pee-wee to professional – merciless competition is expected and encouraged. It is not only accepted, it is demanded by every segment of Michigan's populace. Trash talk and callous disregard for feelings is applauded and endorsed. It is interesting to note that, with very few exceptions, this unyielding competitive push for excellence nearly always involves blacks.

The black athlete who is willing to put his foot on the throat of another player (euphemistically speaking), is lauded and lionized as having a killer instinct. The athlete who doesn't possess such predatory proclivities doesn't last long.

It must here be pointed out that said competition is valued and demanded in all segments of society but that of academics and employment. In Michigan's highly touted athletic community, selection and advancement based on the merit-based standards of competition is understood. But in the state's academic and employment community – competition be damned – selection and advancement is based on sex, race and sexual preference.

In fact, Democrat Gov. Jennifer Granholm, aided by a group of sadistic primordial humanoids known as "By Any Means Necessary," are two toxic antigens in the cell structure of Michigan's body public. Together they have, at every turn, done all within their ability to deny the people of their state open competition in employment and particularly in academia. In their minds, competition where blacks are involved is only acceptable if it is sports-based.

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The Michigan Civil Rights Initiative, or MCRI, is working to ensure that every single resident has full access to employment and academia regardless of race and sex. MCRI is modeled after its successful progenitor: California's Proposition 209.

Proposition 209, introduced by Ward Connerly, "prohibits the state, local governments, districts, public universities, colleges and schools, and other government instrumentalities from discriminating against or giving preferential treatment to any individual or group in public employment, public education or public contracting on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity or national origin." But it should be pointed out that the initiative "does not prohibit reasonably necessary, bona fide qualifications based on sex and actions necessary for receipt of federal funds." In other words, it's perfectly legitimate to mandate that the locker-room attendant for the girls basketball team be a female.

Opposition to MCRI has come from liberals and conservatives alike – with some feeling (myself included) that the Bush administration has gone to "any means necessary" to frustrate MCRI's ballot initiative.

It is unconscionable for any person, persons, group or groups to believe themselves more worthy than another based solely and purely on racial identity and/or sex. It was wrong when Hitler employed said position – it was wrong when Bull Connor, Orval Faubus and Ted Kennedy's father's fought for white supremacy.

The people of Michigan deserve to have their children attend whatever learning institution they choose, based on their qualifications and availability. A white student with a higher LSAT and GPA should not be denied acceptance to the law school of their choice because that school's color matrix indicates another black is needed, even though that individual's overall grades are lower.

Without competition there can be no growth. Competition has contributed to the existence of Homo sapiens – it has led to continued improvement in athletics. The primal screed for affirmative action programs isn't to improve; it is simply to include a certain color or sex – even if it means denying another who is more qualified. It is easy to be magnanimous about the need for race-based provisions when you're not the one being discriminated against by someone less qualified.

No one should fear nor avoid academic competition. People should work to be qualified – then take the highest seat for which they qualify and never stop working to improve. It should start when children are toddlers, just as it does with sports. To exclude the hard work of one individual in favor of another less qualified is just wrong.

MCRI's ballot language, reads in part: "A proposal to amend the state constitution to ban affirmative action programs that give preferential treatment to groups or individuals based on their race, gender, color, ethnicity or national origin from public employment, education or contracting purposes."

MCRI is working to end discrimination for all people. Those who oppose them do so out of a deep-seated animus against whites and an antipathy for blacks who threaten the structure that rewards a plantation mentality. They are also opposed by those bureaucracies that control billions of taxpayer dollars that are leveraged on immiseration.

Illegal immigration presents an opportunity for said bureaucracies to capitalize even more based on racial preferences. As Americans, we must support MCRI in every way possible, because it may be our children who are confronted with the injustice of racial preferences.

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