BAW: Commentary: Hey, Affirmative Action Foes – Where’s Your Outcry Over Political Patronage?

BAW: Commentary: Hey, Affirmative Action Foes – Where’s Your Outcry Over Political Patronage?: "Believe it or not, there’s a new mission beckoning in the soggy devastation of Hurricane Katrina for Ward Connerly.

Most of you know the guy.

Connerly is a former University of California regent who, after spearheading the end of affirmative action in college admissions there, has somehow decided that his life’s calling is to work to end any advantages that give black people like himself -- people who discrimination has historically left out of the progress loop -- a break. After failing miserably to get a racial privacy initiative passed in California, he has been rabidly running around trying to get Michigan to ban some affirmative action programs.

Homeboy just won’t quit.

But I hope that Connerly, who decries affirmative action as an unjust system that favors race, gender and ethnicity over merit, is paying close attention to the Katrina debacle. Because if he is, he ought to turn his vitriol away from blacks, women and other minorities who benefit from what he believes are affirmative actions’ special privileges, and turn it towards those who benefit from the privileges of political patronage."