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Saturday, July 15, 2000 -- TALLAHASSEE, FLA. (AmpolNS) -- Most of you know the insidious Ward Connerly as the "boy who couldn't stand being black."
Ward lives in California with his white wife, whom he married not for love, but because she completed his trophy case of UncleTomIsms and began what was to be a tragic lifetime devoted to proving that he was "as good as white men" and undoing to the best of his ability the accomplishments of so many thousands of Americans from 1959 to the present to install and preserve equal rights in this country.
Ward, who "proudly" proclaims he is black -- and then does everything possible to deny blacks
opportunities they were institutionally denied for nearly two centuries of Constitutional rule, is responsible for rolling back the clock in redneck California during the years of still-at-large Hoch-Führer Pete Wilson in an effort to make certain that blacks and other minorities do not get help in meeting the demands of white society.
Connerly, whose myriad "Propositions" sent once-great California state universities reeling into the Dark Ages, cannot walk down the street for fear of being egged. He hides in his Leave it to Beaver home and remains unwelcome at all-white country clubs -- and most other places.
But he is, of course, unwelcome by his most Americans and his own extended family who wince at the mention of his name.
Ward has now taken his anti-affirmative-action freak show national and targeted Florida, most likely at the invitation of EvenDumberDumbbell Governor "Jeb" Bush of the Bush Dynasty, in an attempt to place one of his
absurd and deceptive ballot issues on the State roster there.
This week, the Florida Supreme Court, showing surprisingly more wisdom than the California Supreme Court (packed with loser "conservatives"), told Connerly to pack up his Gucci carpetbag, get out of Florida, and peddle his hate laws somewhere else.
Connerly calls himself a "businessman", but is really nothing more than a poorly paid hack of the ultra-right wing of the Republican Party, whose rank "rank-and-file" are afraid their inbred children won't get into a decent state college because the "Nigras" are getting in with lower SAT scores.
They claim that it's preferential admission. An example of this is George DumbBellYou Bush, a prime specimen of "academic underachievement" who had about as much chance to be admitted to Yale as,say, Famous Amos -- yet breezed in with scores so low they had to look up to look down.
That system MUST stay in place, Ward's buddies shout from behind the gates of there Bel Air mansions where not one black person has ever entered except through the back door.
Connerly, a kind of mascot for the White Kloset Klan Konservative, suffers under some sick delusion -- along with his buddies J.C. Watts, Colin Powell, Condoleeza "White" Rice, and a full "cast of dozens" of black Republicans -- that the GOP is an open, compassionate group of crackers who really want to nominate the first black president.
In truth, the GOP has spent millions attempting to lure black Americans into its den of political inequity and iniquity for twenty years now.
The truth is that 99% of Black Americans aren't stupid enough to ignore the fact that the "Party of Lincoln" bears no resemblance to the man himself -- and that any parallels that could have been drawn died with the bullet that stopped Abe's life cold.
The Florida Supremes told Connerly and his lawyers that he was falt-out lying to Floridians and that these lies were "too misleading" to go before the voters. I suppose that "a little misleading" is okay.
I had to laugh at loud at the AP reporter who called Connerly a "black activist." Connerly organized a Florida anti-affirmative action measure -- as well as the California and Washington state measures which passed using similar despicable and misleading wording that made it appear that Connerly's ballot measures were really giving us MORE affirmative action, not less.
Florida said, through its Supreme Court, that Connerly is a lying scum -- and should peddle his wares
somewhere else.
We might suggest Mississippi -- the state led by United States Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, a Southern fop who sits around his fancy office and chuckles when he hears that his home state has the highest illiteracy rate in the United States -- and most foreign nations, for that matter. Connerly could always offer to make things worse.
Get this: Connerly, who one of our minority sources on Capitol Hill described as "a walking advertisement for Double Stuft," had the nerve to admonish the Florida Supreme Court, saying the ruling was "a disgraceful display by an overreaching court that aggressively quashed a clear and simple proposition to end preferences."
Tee, hee, hee. But what more might you expect from any Republican -- calling the kettle black?
Connerly said he would draft new anti-affirmative action initiatives for the 2002 ballot -- if he manages to survive what must be a psychologically crushing rebuff.
The Court's opinion lambasted Connerly and the measures for containing "misleading" implications that the state constitution does not already bar unequal treatment. It also said the proposed amendments fail to deal with a single subject as they must, and instead confuse and fuse many issues to confuse and addle the minds of Florida voters just as Connerly did in California. Moreover,Connerly's ballot titles and summaries failed to clearly explain the amendments.
Well of course! If he explained them, he would be burned at the stake within hours.
Connerly, who is not a lawyer because no state would allow it, was opposed in Court by none other than the National Bar Association -- not the ACLU! The NBA was represented by Miami lawyer H.T. Smith who said, after the ruling, "People of the state of Florida don't need interlopers from the state of California to lecture them on how to treat one another.''
In an effort to make certain they gutted the affirmative action laws in Florida, Gov. Jeb Bush and Ward Connerly operated a two-prong attack on the U.S. Constitution last Fall. Bush oversaw a revamping of affirmative action in the state. Under his plan, race and gender cannot be considered in university admissions or in the awarding of state contracts.
In other words, white people will get into college and black people will never be able to compete with white-owned and "connected" business who bid on state contracts.
A court challenge to the Bush scheme by the NAACP was dismissed by an administrative hearing judge on Wednesday, but when appealed, there is a good chance that Jeb Bush too will be shown the door in Florida and move back to high-tone Connecticut where the Bush Dynasty is really from. Not Texas. Not Maine. But Connecticut, where the average price of a home in their neighborhood is now over $1.5 million.
Meanwhile, so much for compassionate racism!
Copyright © 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, American Politics Journal Publications, Inc. All rights reserved. ISSN No. 1523-1690
