One of my favorite Eagles songs is on their Hell Freezes Over album, “Get Over It.” There are days when I just want to hook a loudspeaker to the roof of my car and ride through the streets of 
The song came to mind the other day when Diane Schachterle of the American Civil Rights Institute (Ward Connerly’s 501(c)3) sent me a notice about an event happening in
The funny thing is that this group is holding a conversation with itself. There will be no diversity of thought in the room when the main speakers are: Benjamin Todd Jealous, President of the Rosenberg Foundation and former director of Amnesty International’s US Human Rights Program; Frederick E. Jordan of F.E. Jordan Associates (Jordan helped write San Francisco’s M/WBE ordinance, worked with Maxine Waters in 1988 to pass the California M/WBE program and was a leader in the losing campaign against 209); and Bernida Reagan, Director of the Port of Oakland’s Division of Social Responsibility.
It is amazing that ten years later these folks are still whining about 209 and trying to convince the public that it has resulted in widespread discrimination.
The reality? According to the ACRI, Caltrans just changed over to race neutral contracting (took them long enough) and state contract costs are down 6 percent. Plus, there has been no significant negative impact resulted on women.
If groups like this truly cared about the disadvantaged in our society, they would be putting pressure on the K-12 education establishment to improve inner-city schools and reduce the drop-out rate, instead of fighting to reinstate racial preferences in government programs.