The Civil Rights Commission failed!

I want to alert you to a provision in the Michigan Constitution that many people overlooked, especially when it came to Proposal 2 in 2006 which banned affirmative action programs
in our colleges. Article V, Section 29 of the Michigan Constitution mandates the Civil Rights Commission. This provision was put into the 1963 Constitution and was one of the reasons why the 1961-62 Constitutional Convention took place. The Civil Rights Commission's duty is to
'investigate alleged discrimination against any person because of religion, race, color, or national origin in the enjoyment of the civil rights guaranteed by law and by this constitution, and to secure the equal protection of such civil rights without such discrimination.' (1) In 2006, former State Representative Leon Drolet and Jennifer Gratz led a grassroots movement to pass Proposal 2, which would ban affirmative action programs in our colleges that discriminated against whites because of their race. Black students were judged on an easier scale than whites,
making it more likely for them to be accepted into college.

While in high school, Jennifer Gratz applied to the University of Michigan but was turned down.
She had the grades, but didn't get in. She investigated the matter further and discovered that the university had built-in biases against whites. She teamed up with Drolet and successfully added an amendment to the Michigan Constitution that ended affirmative action programs in our colleges. I voted in favor of Proposal 2, and I'm glad it passed. But looking back, I wonder if it was worth all of the trouble.

During the 2006 campaign, millions of dollars were poured into this issue on both sides. The anti-Prop 2 people greatly outspent the pro-Prop 2 people by a wide margin. Nevertheless, the people voted for the measure 2,141,214 to 1,555,691. (2) But I was wondering why Jennifer Gratz couldn't have just filed a complaint with the Civil Rights Commission, which is already mandated in the Constitution. What's the use of having this commission when a state-sponsored institution (the University of Michigan) discriminated against whites on the basis of race? Why did Michiganders have to collect hundreds of thousands of signatures and get an amendment passed by the people when we already have a plethora of bureaucracies and laws in the books that protect the people from racial discrimination?

In addition to the Civil Rights Commission, we have the Department of Civil Rights. These people should've gotten to the bottom of Ms. Gratz's case, but they refused to act. It may be because Ms. Gratz is white and the bureaucracy could've cared less. We need some serious changes in the Michigan Constitution because government just doesn't work for the people anymore. The first thing we need to do is eliminate the Department of Education. At $15 billion a year, this department is a total waste of precious revenue. Our universities are saturated with a bunch of socialist professors and greedy union teachers. Let the local school boards control their own destiny. Allow our colleges to be sovereign governmental bodies. Then we should do away with the Civil Rights Commission and the Department of Civil Rights. Let a new Department of Justice enforce civil rights. I believe in civil rights laws, but we have to think about how the government enforces these laws!

I know people will label me as a racist, but nothing could be further from the truth. My goal in having less government is not to take everything away from the people, but to give everything back to the people. Since the 1960s, the government has destroyed blacks with welfare programs that trap them into poverty, an education system that teaches them nothing, and neighborhoods that are saturated with crime and drugs. The only way we can help blacks succeed in America is by scaling back the size and scope of government. Let's hope we can do it before it is too late.

1: Michigan Constitution, Article V, Section 29.
2: Michigan Manual, 2007-2008, Page 101.

G.J. LaRouche, 15 September 2010