March 10, 2000

My Fight Against Race Preferences: a Quest Toward 'Creating Equal'

By WARD CONNERLY

Race is a scar in America. I first saw that scar at the beginning of my life, in the segregated South. And now, more than 50 years later, as we enter a new millennium, I know that it is still here -- prominent, disfiguring, often inflamed -- evidence of the terrible injuries of the past. Black people should not deny that the mark exists; it is part of our connection to America.

But we should also resist anyone, black or white, who wants to rip open the scar

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