Prop. 16 threatens California’s commitment to equality: Ward Connerly

In matters of race, it is extraordinarily difficult to write about the topic of race without calling upon one’s personal experience, and our personal experiences shape and give life to the policies which we embrace.
In my case, life began in the Deep South — Leesville, Louisiana — in 1939, where the “one-drop rule” reigned supreme. Segregation based on the color of my skin was the social and legal metric that governed my life during my earliest years. Having once be