[PEN-L:11471] Re: Ward Connerly

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

rakesh bhandari wrote:

>The NYT devotes much ink to Ward Connerly, the black man appointed by
>California Gov Pete Wilson to the University Board of Regents to speak in
>favor of the destruction of affirmative action.

You're right to raise the issues you do, but the NYT article was
interesting for a couple of other reasons - Connerly's own complicated
personal relations with blackness (e.g., being raised by a white woman who
thought black babies deserved to go straight into the trashcan) and his
usefulness to the anti-AA forces in legitimating their effort. If he gets
his way, he'll end up as one of the last and greatest beneficiaries of AA.

Doug