<p>Dross, I dislike Thomas,’ Rice’s and Connerly’s hypocrisy, not their opinions on AA per se.</p>
<p>Thomas was admitted to Holy Cross College by means of an AA program. He did well in college and truly earned a spot at Yale Law School. But he got fast-forwarded in by leadership of the R party because of his race.</p>
<p>Rice is clearly talented, but her speech in which she claimed to have 'done it on my own" at the 2000 R convention was nonsense. How does a former music major from U of Denver rise to provost at Stanford so fast? I don’t see many U of Denver graduates clerking at the U.S. Supreme Court, regardless of the quality of that institution.</p>
<p>Connerly clearly had/has an axe to grind. All that vitriol from a guy who was an insider in the Pete Wilson administration and whose businesses benefited from set-aside procurement contracts from the state of California. Plus, Connerly turned the AA debate in California into a nasty and disheartening battle. Were obviously unqualified Black students being admitted to UC-Berkely? That’s what he said over and over again. </p>
<p>For honest talk about AA and other matters of race, I’d prefer to hear John McWhorter or Prof. William Junius Wilson, or even Walter Williams. By no means are African Americans of one mind.</p>