Wednesday, November 08, 2006

Democracy Now! | Record 200 Ballot Initiatives Include Abortion, Gay Marriage, Affirmative Action, and Minimum Wage Measures: "AMY GOODMAN: We'll see if he won. It's still contested right now, but he does seem to be ahead. Let me ask you very quickly, because we only have a few minutes, the anti-affirmative action measure that actually passed in Michigan, what is it?

KRISTINA WILFORE: Well, it's very disappointing. It does provide a strict interpretation of affirmative action on universities and government services. And it's unfortunate. You had a bipartisan coalition opposed to it. It might be interesting to note that the only supporter publicly, organizationally, of this very extreme measure was the Ku Klux Klan. You know, so we still have a lot of problems in our country around race."