Super Bowl Coaching Matchup Affirmative Action Success StoryHarrison Chastang, KPOO FM Radiobyline‚ Jan. 24‚ 2007It's a good thing that Ward Connerly doesn't have anything to do with running the NFL. If he did, Lovie Smith and Tony Dungy wouldn't be making history as the first two Blacks coaching in the Super Bowl. Former University of California Regent Connerly is the nation's number one opponent of Affirmative Action; he's sponsored ballot measures to outlaw Affirmative Action programs here in California, Texas, Washington and most recently, in Michigan, where a Connerly sponsored ballot measure overturned a U.S. Supreme Court decision permitting Affirmative Action at the University of Michigan. Connerly argues that Affirmative Action is immoral because it violates the spirit of the nation's civil rights laws and the philosophy of Dr. King's dream of a color blind society where race plays no factor in job hiring, promotions or university admissions and where those decisions are based only on a person's education, experience and qualifications. Connerly views the world from tunnel vision goggles where he either doesn't see or ignores the discrimination that still exists in American society. |