Universities and colleges are among the biggest fomenters of "tribalism" in requiring every student, faculty member and staff member "check a race" box, despite the fact that the majority of the US population is multiracial or multiethnic to one degree or another. In California in 2002-2003, under the leadership of Ward Connerly, we put …
Universities and colleges are among the biggest fomenters of "tribalism" in requiring every student, faculty member and staff member "check a race" box, despite the fact that the majority of the US population is multiracial or multiethnic to one degree or another. In California in 2002-2003, under the leadership of Ward Connerly, we put the Racial Privacy Initiative on the ballot. This would have disallowed such categorization in California state and local governments. But shortly before the vote the Democratic Party and Lt. Governor Cruz Bustamante launched a multimillion dollar TV ad campaign against it, and it only got 37% of the vote. Time to re-launch what would be an exceptionally powerful way to diminish tribalism ... and to put hundreds of DEI administrators out of a job!
Universities and colleges are among the biggest fomenters of "tribalism" in requiring every student, faculty member and staff member "check a race" box, despite the fact that the majority of the US population is multiracial or multiethnic to one degree or another. In California in 2002-2003, under the leadership of Ward Connerly, we put the Racial Privacy Initiative on the ballot. This would have disallowed such categorization in California state and local governments. But shortly before the vote the Democratic Party and Lt. Governor Cruz Bustamante launched a multimillion dollar TV ad campaign against it, and it only got 37% of the vote. Time to re-launch what would be an exceptionally powerful way to diminish tribalism ... and to put hundreds of DEI administrators out of a job!