The KKK's NEW FAN: Former Univ of California Regent Ward Connerly!

Ward Connerly : "God Bless Them!"  (He's talking about the KKK!)

Ward Connerly, the Former University of California Regent best known for fighting against affirmative action, is at it again. This time he's backing Michigan's Proposition 2, an anti-affirmative action initiative. Which the KKK likes a lot.

Ward Connerly (clip on You-Tube here): If the Ku Klux Klan thinks that equality is right -- God Bless Them! Thank them for finally reaching the point where logic and reason are being applied, instead of hate.

Logic? Reason? Two things which Ward Connerly isn't acquainted with, if he thinks the KKK is backing the initiative because of "logic" and "reason" instead of hate, which is their whole organizational purpose.

While a UC regent, Mr Connerly tirelessly advocated for ending affirmative action here in California. And the results are in:

Casualties of Prop 209
Since California's Prop 209 went into effect, racial and ethnic minorities have become a larger part of the state's population, but one wouldn't know it by looking at the students in the University of California system... Black students accounted for 7.5 percent of the high school class of 2005, yet only make up 3 percent of the university student body. Immediately after Prop 209 took effect, black enrollment at the University of California Berkeley plummeted 50 percent and has never quite recovered... Moreover, the UC system added 8,000 students and a new campus in the last decade; however, black student enrollment declined by 36 students during this booming time.

Mr Connerly now works for the UN-aptly named American Civil Rights Institute. There he is amply rewarded for being a right-wing lapdog.

Ward Connerly, the former California regent who failed to topple affirmative action in that state with his notorious Proposition 209 (the "Racial Privacy Initiative") has resurfaced in Michigan with a new weapon, Proposition 2. The name has changed (to the "Michigan Civil Rights Initiative") but the intent is the same: to make it illegal to consider race or gender in hiring.

Here are some of the other things the KKK has been up to lately, besides approving of Proposition 2:

Minister receives KKK threat

Police step up patrols to protect a minister and his church after he receives a message of hate.
A racist flyer, showing an African-American man with a message saying, "A brain is a terrible thing to waste, that's why (expletive) don't have any," was delivered to Reverend Halaini Chan-Williams.

"The knights of the Ku Klux Klan are watching you, and we don't like what we see," the letter continued.

Sept, 2006
Mayor Virgil Penn said he fears for his family's safety after receiving a threatening letter with a Ku Klux Klan signature last week.

The letter, which appeared to be written in crayon, contained only one sentence: ``If you run again for office in the town of Bonita, La., you will `---' KKK.''

``I guess the three blank letters mean I will die,'' said Penn, Bonita's first black mayor. ``To be honest, I'm afraid, not so much for me, but for my family.''

Penn, 37, is married with two children, one of whom still lives at home. He has qualified to run in the Sept. 30 election against three opponents.