Good Magazine takes a lengthy look at the always fascinating Ward Connerly, and his struggle to end Affirmative Action in the United States. While he continues to be vilified by the defenders of “positive discrimination” and as his ballot initiatives are fought vigorously in every state, it is increasingly a intellectually hollow resistance:
“The notion that we can use race as the entry point to solve social problems—that’s dead,” [Connerly] says, looking past me, his eyes fixed on the hotel’s patio. “And I’m not talking just race preferences. Race-based decision-making is dead.”
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Where once he was dismissed as a naive idealist, now even his bitterest critics must acknowledge within themselves that the above is so.