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ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:15:43 GMT Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:15:43 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ In the late 1960s, college students rioted and stormed administration buildings, protesting everything from the Vietnam War to freedom of speech violations to the paucity of black students, faculty and programs on... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LaShawnBarber/2010/03/11/san_diego_ghetto_party_leads_to_race-based_demands 98bab5d7-3110-4335-91e2-d81dae5db2a1 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:15:43 GMT One idea that transcends political lines is that blacks are inferior and should be held to lower standards in perpetuity. In 2007, the Department of Justice (DOJ) under George W. Bush filed suit against the New York... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LaShawnBarber/2010/01/26/blacks_held_to_lower_standards_in_perpetuity 7577a168-2b63-41c0-83c0-091d7f653734 Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:52:28 GMT On international science tests, American students perpetually lag behind their peers in other developed countries. A logical response might be to beef up science programs in government schools, but logic is hard to come... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LaShawnBarber/2009/12/31/berkeley_high_may_drop_white_science_labs e6666a64-2487-4486-88fc-6c1e28926a20 Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:13:30 GMT California legislators ought to carry a copy of the state constitution in their pockets and refer to it when writing laws. It's a useful guide, laying out what the people have a right to do and what the government shall... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LaShawnBarber/2009/10/26/schwarzenegger_signs_racial_quota_bill 37b4dbea-0bf2-49d3-b2a8-7e3e2b49d2bb Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:56:59 GMT Thirteen years after California amended the state constitution to bar the government from discriminating against or preferring individuals or groups in admissions, contracting, and hiring, on the basis of race and sex,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LaShawnBarber/2009/10/15/california_court_strikes_down_race-based_scholarships 3e94d4be-5e66-4ad2-89f8-cdd19f09a0a9 Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:10:20 GMT Colleges and universities either prohibited by law from factoring race into admissions decisions, or those that prefer a subtler approach to admitting applicants based on race, do so by measuring personality, leadership... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LaShawnBarber/2009/08/28/noncognitive_assessment_farce 01707fb8-826a-4667-9570-6b3e6b7eea2f Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:01:00 GMT In a 5-4 decision split along party lines, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of white and Hispanic New Haven firefighters in Ricci v. DeStefano . In 2004, the city threw out the results of a promotions test because... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LaShawnBarber/2009/07/02/ricci_and_the_title_vii_catch 78ef9b50-f683-4287-8f4b-80f06d6413c6 Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:29:09 GMT You know the times they are a-changing when the liberal Los Angeles Times implies it was unfair to deny white firefighters promotions on account of race. Last month, the Supreme Court heard arguments in Ricci v.... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LaShawnBarber/2009/05/19/los_angeles_times_almost_right_on_race 198ff2fe-0a85-4786-abae-d41b2ec2f192 Tue, 19 May 2009 18:10:48 GMT It looks like another set of judges has found a way around the will of the people. In 1996, 54 percent of California voters said yes to Proposition 209, a constitutional amendment barring state and local governments... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LaShawnBarber/2009/03/30/california_court_says_assignment_by_race_ok 2d3497a3-ebe5-41f2-9ef9-fcd46a12ab39 Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:21:57 GMT New Haven firefighter Frank Ricci did what he was supposed to do. He bought the recommended books and studied for a promotion exam. Despite his dyslexia, Ricci scored high enough to qualify for a promotion, but the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LaShawnBarber/2009/01/27/supreme_court_to_hear_new_haven_race_case 6eb42d6d-2e81-406b-895f-1a567d76f98a Tue, 27 Jan 2009 05:00:15 GMT Half a century ago, America was embroiled in a legal and moral struggle to end government-sanctioned racial discrimination. Under a system known as Jim Crow, our government treated citizens differently based on race.... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LaShawnBarber/2008/12/22/dismantling_diversity_dogma 338c6dca-ff7b-4c8d-a713-a9d91480df9b Mon, 22 Dec 2008 20:59:07 GMT The people have spoken. On November 4, 2008, 51 percent of Colorado voters defeated a measure that would have ended state and local government race- and sex-based discrimination and preferences in hiring, contracting,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LaShawnBarber/2008/11/19/does_obamas_win_signal_the_end_of_racial_preferences 946b3c88-e701-4b58-a602-2f4289d9516f Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:33:00 GMT Who would have thought in 2008, some 50 years after the country groaned under the strain of dismantling laws and practices that relegated blacks to second class citizenship, the government still would be discriminating... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LaShawnBarber/2008/10/01/colorado_voters_will_choose_yes_or_no_on_equality f58bcfeb-c75f-4857-a0eb-2888670691ea Wed, 01 Oct 2008 04:01:00 GMT [V]irtually every significant racist in American political history was a Democrat. - Bruce Bartlett Democrats, seen as the civil rights party, supported slavery, opposed civil rights legislation, instituted the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LaShawnBarber/2008/02/07/digging_up_democratic_skeletons 8e6e38f1-73e3-47e4-a65f-5d4c1eca02a4 Fri, 08 Feb 2008 01:35:20 GMT I freed thousands of slaves. I could have freed thousands more, if they had known they were slaves. - Harriet Tubman The physical chains of American slavery may be broken, but the mental chains are still there. That's... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LaShawnBarber/2008/01/22/mental_chains_and_civil_war 8e7c128e-1399-4784-bd7c-2926350b1e0f Tue, 22 Jan 2008 05:01:00 GMT