Friday, October 3, 2003
California's Prop 54, which promises to prohibit the State from even asking about a person's race, is looking good for passage...and in no small measure due to the fact that individual members of minority racial groups (NOT racial organizations, who's elite status and raison d'etre are anchored in keeping race fetishism alive) support it. Majorities of Blacks, Hispanics and Asians favor the measure. Prop 54's time has come.
California Goes Colorblind? Minorities support 54 - By Deroy Murdock
Proposition 54, the California Racial Privacy Initiative, occupies a quiet corner on the boisterous recall ballot. With limited exceptions, RPI would forbid state and local governments from ethnically classifying residents for public education, employment, or contracting. Although it has been overshadowed by the gubernatorial brawl, RPI enjoys surprising support among the Golden State's minority voters.
The 2003 Multilingual Survey of California Voters found that every ethnic group polled favors RPI. Hispanics endorse it 46 percent to 33 percent. Asian-descended voters are pro-RPI, 42 percent to 40, while blacks back it, 41 percent to 33. Whites, interestingly enough, support RPI 31 percent to 25 with a hefty 44 percent undecided.
Still, as Miami-based pollster Sergio Bendixen told the Sacramento Bee: "Mathematically, it is impossible for Proposition 54 to be defeated unless minorities oppose it." Bendixen's private company interviewed 1,608 voters between September 6-16 in Cantonese, English, Korean, Mandarin, Spanish, and Vietnamese.
"This poll gives me hope that a broad coalition of individuals can think outside the box and reject the racialist company line," says San Franciscan Kevin Nguyen, RPI's official proponent and a Saigon native whose father spent six months in a Vietcong reeducation camp...
