The 20 Arguments For Discriminating Against Asian Americans . . . and Why They’re Wrong
November 2, 2018 · Web Only, affirmative action
The Harvard affirmative action trial has brought out a lot of bad arguments in favor of discrimination.
Civil Rights Policy Commentator
Roger Clegg
11 articles 1997–2018
Roger Clegg is a conservative legal commentator and president and general counsel of the Center for Equal Opportunity, a think tank focused on civil rights and racial preferences. He wrote for The Weekly Standard over two decades, contributing articles on affirmative action, racial quotas, bilingual education, and civil rights policy. His work consistently critiqued race-conscious government policies and identity-based legal frameworks.
Broken Promise
January 29, 2007 · Roger Clegg, Magazine, Books and Arts
White Guilt
Racing in Place
October 30, 2000 · Roger Clegg, Magazine, Books and Arts
The importance of John H. McWhorter's new book, Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America, is difficult to overstate. It's thesis is straight-forward and explosive: The principal hurdle faced by African Americans today is their own culture. McWhorter identifies the three major…
Quota King
September 11, 2000 · Roger Clegg, Features, Magazine
On August 3, President Clinton used -- in fact, abused -- his recess-appointment authority to make Bill Lann Lee the head of the Justice Department's civil rights division. The action was a slap in the face to the Republican-controlled Senate. It will be interesting to see if it is ignored.
Defying Proposition 209
July 24, 2000 · Roger Clegg, Features, Magazine
Disabling Our Prisons
March 27, 2000 · Roger Clegg, Magazine
IS THERE A SINGLE PRISON in the United States that hasn't been harassed by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)? Probably not. Ever since the Supreme Court decided its first ADA case, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections v. Yeskey, in June 1998, inmate complaints inspired by the act have…
The New "Desegregation";
November 15, 1999 · Roger Clegg, Magazine
ONCE UPON A TIME, the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division opposed the assignment of students to public schools on the basis of race. No more. Now the division defends schools that want to take race into account in deciding who gets in and who doesn't. Consider several friends-of-the-court…
BILINGUAL BULLYING
February 15, 1999 · Roger Clegg, Magazine
DOCUMENTS RECENTLY OBTAINED from the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) reveal the agency's systematic abuse of its authority during the Clinton administration. Under the direction of Norma Cantu, OCR has bullied school districts all over the country into implementing bilingual…
POLLUTING RACE RELATIONS
November 9, 1998 · Roger Clegg, Blog
The movement for "environmental justice" and against "environmental racism" began in the 1980s. Its premise is that racial minorities, particularly in low-income neighborhoods, suffer disproportionately from pollution.
THE ENDA BIG GOVERNMENT?
September 22, 1997 · Roger Clegg, Magazine
LAST YEAR, A BILL TO PROHIBIT private employers from discriminating against homosexuals was defeated in the Senate by a narrow 50-49 vote. President Clinton had endorsed the bill. A top item on the gay agenda, the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) is back this year. The president has…
CLINTON'S RACE TRICKS
June 16, 1997 · Roger Clegg, Magazine
ON JUNE 14, PRESIDENT CLINTON will deliver the commencement address at the University of California at San Diego. His topic will be race relations and the importance of diversity. The speech is being hyped as one of the president's moves to engage us all in a "national discussion about race," along…