KKK backs Ward Connerly and Michigan "Civil Rights Initiative"

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Run time: 00:40 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhxis5k2Dmw   Posted on YouTube: November 01, 2006 By YouTube Member: hugoshi Views on YouTube: 34517   Posted on DU: November 04, 2006 By DU Member: MrScorpio Views on DU: 1661

 

KKK backing welcomed

Prop 2 leader says he'll take support wherever he can get it to end affirmative action.

Ronald J. Hansen / The Detroit News

Ward Connerly, the California man leading a ballot measure to end most affirmative action in Michigan, accepts Ku Klux Klan support for his position in a video clip posted this week on the Internet.

Connerly on Friday defended his remark in a statement, saying he accepts support for banning affirmative action wherever he finds it.

He said he does not support hateful activities.

But opponents of Connerly's Proposal 2 immediately seized on the clip as a sign that it would satisfy hate groups, not ensure equality.

In the 39-second clip posted on YouTube.com, Mark Bernstein of the Michigan Civil Rights Commission says Connerly's group has no support from notable civil rights groups.

"In fact just to illustrate how extreme and radical this group is," Bernstein says, "the only large organization that's endorsed the MCRI is the Ku Klux Klan."


Clip

http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061...

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1. Never did like that Ward Connerly

I remember when Chris Rock said to him, "You have spent your entire life making sure the white man has an even break." Classic.

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2. Ward Connally on the KKK: "God Bless Them"

I also heard that the initiative is opposed by such "liberals" as Dick DeVos.