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Michigan Affirmative-Action Measure Is All Wrong
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Michigan Affirmative-Action Measure Is All Wrong

The so-called Michigan Civil Rights Initiative would be a diversity sledgehammer with wide-ranging implications.

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here is everything wrong and nothing right with Michigan’s Nov. 7 ballot initiative to amend the state constitution to ban affirmative action.

Rather than root out flawed affirmative-action programs, the amendment — the Orwellian-named Michigan Civil Rights Initiative — is a diversity sledgehammer.

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