One of the things I haven't seen much written about re: the Cali recall is Prop. 54...the Racial Privacy Initiative. It's going to be on the same ballot as the recall, and I can't call the result at all.
One of my boys thinks it's going to go down in flames, largely because of the number of people and institutions that recognize the value of "diversity" and because people really DO know where they come from and don't want that heritage ignored. I don't buy that. I think the only way it loses is if those 135 candidates take people's minds off of 54, leaving those most negatively impacted by it (black, latino, and some asians) to vote it down. Otherwise? The majority of "liberals" are liberal on a number of issues. Race isn't one of them.
My boy also thinks that if it does win, there's no way it'll be enforced. Here I agree. Bottom line is that there has to be SOME way to enforce the Civil Rights Act. You can't do that if you don't collect racial data of SOME sort.
Here's an Update
Posted by: Cobb at September 7, 2003 11:50 AM