“We live side by side but not together.” That’s how one person recently described “the fallout from decades of race-based affirmative action policies.” People, she said, “were fed up.”
Those people are in Malaysia, which just handed the governing party a surprise rebuke that was based heavily on a long-simmering rejection of Malaysia’s “affirmative action” policies.
Unless the Democrats succeed in blocking or undermining civil rights initiatives now underway in five states, some voters in the United States will have the opportunity to express their rejection of race preferences policies next November. In that regard, the Colorado Civil Rights Initiative just submitted nearly 129,000 signatures to the Secretary of State to place the CCRI on the ballot. Only 76,000 are required.
UPDATE [11 March]
Malaysia’s resurgent opposition today decided to abolish affirmative action policies favouring ethnic Malays in the states ruled by them, a move that may sound music to the ears of the minority Indian and Chinese communities.
I imagine this will not get reported in the mainstream press in the US.