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Ward Connerly: he is America's most ardent proponent of colorblindness, a successful grassroots political leader, and a bold thinker on questions of race, education, and government policy. (Live with TAE).(Interview)

The American Enterprise

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Californian Ward Connerly vaulted to national prominence in the 1990s as the most visible and articulate leader of the Proposition 209 campaign, which in 1997 outlawed racial discrimination or preferences in all decisions by the state of California. Since then he has continued to shake up the political establishment with his adamant calls for colorblindness in public policy.

A businessman and regent of the University of California, Connerly has recently turned his attention to passage of a Racial Privacy Initiative, which would end nearly all use of racial classifications by the government. He views this as the next step toward his dream of a society where skin ...

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