Uncle Tom Bammer Ward Connerly Retires from CA. Board of Regents
Saturday, January 22, 2005 at 06:50PM
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HATER of Blacks & Latinos retires after 12-year term
Ward Connerly - reviled as an Uncle Tom, hailed as a man of principle
and unflinching courage - is moving on to another battlefield.
Connerly's term as a member of the University of California Board of
Regents is drawing to a close after 12 turbulent years in which he led
the university, and then the state of California, to drop affirmative
action. Michigan may be the next battleground for Connerly, who is of
black, white and American Indian descent. He and others recently
announced they have enough signatures to get a proposed constitutional
amendment on that state's 2006 ballot that would ban race and
gender-based preferences in admissions and government hiring. The
65-year-old Connerly, who will attend his final meeting as a regent
this week, was a little-known Sacramento consultant in the
land-development business when he was appointed to the Board of Regents
in 1993 by Republican Gov. Pete Wilson. In 1995, 13 hours into a tense,
stomach-churning meeting interrupted by a bomb threat and punctuated by
a protests led by the Rev. Jesse Jackson, Connerly's colleagues on the
Board of Regents voted 14-10 to dismantle race-based admissions. [more] and [more] and [more]
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