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RECIPIENT PROFILEEIN: 52-2004697 American Civil Rights InstituteSacramento, CA 95816-5755 Founded by Ward Connerly in 1997, ACRI uses encoded language to oppose affirmative action. Connerly and ACRI led the Proposition 209 effort in California, which dismantled affirmative action programs in the state. July 5, 2003 Lessons in mainstream media ignoring Conservative Philanthropy (Republican) sponsorship of Societal Institutions, #563:Washington Post story on Ward Connerly ballot initiative ignores $3.2 million in conservative philanthropy underwritingOnce again, you think the conservative philanthropies give this kind of money for nothing?Thanks to Washington Post reporter Darryl Fears for his 1,300 word story today (July 5, 2003) describing how Ward Connerly's conservative philanthropy funded institution, the American Civil Rights Institute (ACRI) - had gathered enough signatures on a petition to put a question on the California ballot mandating that the state not collect any racial, ethnic, color or national origin information on anyone, forever. In the story Connerly is quoted saying that California doesn't need to collect racial data, because in the US "race is irrelevant." (Which is of course truly ludicrous, check here, here, and here to see what we mean.) Unfortunately, unmentioned in the story is the critical role played by the conservative philanthropies in funding Connerly and his anti-affirmative action activities. In fact, the Bradley Foundation gave Connerly $750,000 in 2001 (last year available) for the specific campaign now underway in California. That same year he got $200,000 from Richard Mellon Scaife, and another $150,000 from the Olin Foundation. This information about the ACRI's funding couldn't be easier to find, either. A Google search for "American Civil Rights Institute" puts our data in the number three position. Still, there are good tidbits of information in this story. Here's one which once again ties conservative philanthropy money intimately to Republican Party politics: [Connerly's] supporters, which include the state Republican Party and John Moores, owner of the San Diego Padres baseball team, say they agree with Connerly's assessment that "race is irrelevant"...Connerly's organization, the American Civil Rights Institute, helped collect more than a million signatures on petitions to get the initiative on the ballot. Another paragraph highlights how the initiative, like so many other conservative philanthropy / Republican Political Party activitites, is anti-science: Opponents say the referendum would erase information from vital statistics and cripple efforts by researchers to collect data that help them understand why certain minorities suffer more from illnesses such as heart disease, prostate cancer and AIDS, as well as certain groups are more likely to become teenage parents, smoke at an early age and drop out of school. The story also quotes, in favor of Connerly's initiative, Dan Stein, of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, yet another Richard Mellon Scaife funded outfit.
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OTHER LINKSBill Berkowitz Ward Connerly's anti-affirmative action jihadFounder and Chair of the American Civil Rights Institute scouting five to nine states for new anti-affirmative action initiatives Fresh from his most recent victory -- in Michigan this past November -- Ward Connerly, the Black California-based maven of anti-affirmative action initiatives, appears to be preparing to take his jihad on the road. According to a mid-December report in the San Francisco Chronicle, Connerly said that he was "exploring moves into nine other states."
SFGate.com Prop. 54 defeated soundlyProposition 54, a constitutional amendment proposed by UC Regent Ward Connerly to ban most state agencies from collecting racial and ethnic data died Tuesday night after opponents successfully focused the attention on its possible effects on health care.
Phil Wilayto Ward Connerly & the American Civil Rights InstituteWard Connerly is one of the country’s leading opponents of affirmative action. In 1995, as a member of the University of California Board of Regents, he introduced the resolution that overturned affirmative action in that state’s university system, the largest in the country.
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