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President Nixon issued regulations that created racial preferences. He created racial goals or quotas for the federal civil service and for employers who receive more than $10,000 a year from the federal government. He also created minority set-aside programs for government contractors.
In their 1980 campaign, Ronald Reagan and George Bush promised to eliminate racial preferences. They reneged on that promise. George W. Bush continued his father's hypocrisy. He criticized racial preferences, but didn't cancel Nixon's regulations.
The Michigan Civil Rights Initiative, approved by voters in 2006, prohibited racial preferences regarding admissions at state colleges. But it didn't prohibit racial goals or quotas for the civil service or other employers. The initiative said it "does not prohibit action that must be taken to establish or maintain eligibility for any federal program, if ineligibility would result in loss of federal funds."
I support equal rights and oppose racial preferences. I want to cancel Nixon's regulations.