The GOP often wonders why voters of color choose to overwhelmingly reject their party in favor of ours. One might argue it's because of quotes like this one:
I should have led that off with, "From the folks who brought you the bigoted gay marriage ban..."
That quote was taken from Andy Granias' column in today's Badger Herald, examining a proposed constitutional amendment in Wisconsin that would ban affirmative action.
Let me be clear about my position on this issue: Until we are truly a color-blind society, until being white and/or coming from wealth has no bearing on the jobs you can get or the schools you can attend there is a need to write equality into our laws.
Newsflash, Mr. Grothman - we're not there yet.
“Proponents of affirmative action just want to justify their existence. It’s absurd,” [Sen. Glen] Grothman (R - West Bend) told me. “Just a bunch of affirmative action bureaucrats looking for a job, advancing their racist agenda.”
I should have led that off with, "From the folks who brought you the bigoted gay marriage ban..."
That quote was taken from Andy Granias' column in today's Badger Herald, examining a proposed constitutional amendment in Wisconsin that would ban affirmative action.
Let me be clear about my position on this issue: Until we are truly a color-blind society, until being white and/or coming from wealth has no bearing on the jobs you can get or the schools you can attend there is a need to write equality into our laws.
Newsflash, Mr. Grothman - we're not there yet.
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