Ward Connerly is a businessman and civil rights activist best known for leading the campaign for California's Proposition 209, which banned affirmative action in public institutions. He served on the University of California Board of Regents and became one of the most prominent opponents of race-based preferences in the 1990s. He contributed pieces to The Weekly Standard on affirmative action and the California Civil Rights Initiative.
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT, the "preference cartel" unveiled its propaganda campaign in the third and fourth weeks of April. This campaign is designed to convince the American people that race, gender, and ethnic preferences are good for us. I suspect that its timing is aimed at influencing the Ninth…
August 6, 1996