SECTORS

Fruit of the Poisoned Tree: The Hard Right's Plan to Capture Newark NJ

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Black Commentator
August 13, 2003

Ward Connerly's Crusade to Erase Black People

The Racial Privacy Act: Pure Racist American Illogic

The intended effect of RPI is to make it nearly impossible to compile evidence of the existence of racism, or to create public policy that would counter the effects of racism, or to identify the victims of racism. A “color blind” society would be achieved by blinding citizens and government to the facts of bias.

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CONSERVATIVE PHILANTHROPY

Sponsoring Conservative Minorities

From a report by NCRP

One expression of conservative foundations' effort to train and sponsor conservative leadership concerns their support of scholars and policy analysts in communities of color. In addition to their support of Dinesh D'Souza and Linda Chavez, established minority voices whose work is directly or indirectly supported include:

Thomas Sowell, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution and author of numerous books attacking welfare state policies and denying or minimizing the effects of racial prejudice on the lives of African-Americans. One of Sowell's latest works is The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as the Basis for Social Policy, which critiques what he calls the failed policies of the welfare state over the past 30 years.

Shelby Steele, a relatively obscure professor of English in California who was rapidly elevated to public visibility by the anti-affirmative action message in his book, The Content of Our Character. Steele now serves as a resident scholar at the Hoover Institution.

Walter E. Williams, a John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics at George Mason University, who is also a senior fellow at both the Heritage Foundation and the Hoover Institution.

Robert Woodson, founder of the well-funded National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise, who has consistently opposed federal anti-poverty initiatives as reinforcing of dependency and who was selected to serve as an advisor to Congressman Newt Gingrich in 1996 on neighborhood issues.

Glenn Loury, now teaching at Boston University, who has disdained the civil rights movement, blaming the "social disorganization of blacks," manifested in high rates of teenage pregnancy, black crime and the like, for the lack of progress of the African American community as a whole.

Alan Keyes, most recently a GOP presidential candidate whose extreme views have placed him as a regular on Free Congress Foundation's National Empowerment Television and as a favorite on the Conservative lecture circuit.

In addition to the funding of minorities with conservative policy views, the foundations supported major institutions, such as the Institute for Contemporary Studies, which sponsored the first national gathering of black conservatives in 1980, or particular projects, including the Alternative Black Speakers Project (Young America's Foundation), Project 21 which seeks to identify and feature Black conservatives (The National Center for Public Policy Research), the National Institute for Traditional Black Leadership, and the Minnesota Network for Conservative Black Leadership (Center of the American Experiment).