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THE (STATE) CIVIL RIGHTS INITIATIVE BALLOT LANGUAGE:

The State shall not discriminate against nor grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting.

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For 2008, Race Free Zone is dedicated to being the no-spin zone of the Civil Rights Initiative movement. This year, we encourage all people, media, and candidates of Arizona, Colorado, and Nebraska to tour the information we have posted here for their consideration as they have the chance to vote on Civil Rights Initiatives in their states this November. We invite all media in the United States to tour this site for facts about this movement. We are strictly fact-oriented. All opinions are clearly shown to be opinions.

The Civil Rights Initiatives are anti-race preference and anti-gender preference ballot initiatives. This all started when California passed Proposition 209, eliminating race and gender preferences in state government, including universities and colleges supported by the state, state employment, and state contracting. The surprising success of this proposal spurred the people of Washington State to do the same, and in 2006 Michigan became the third state to stop the destructive habit of using race and gender preferences in its state education, employment and contracting.

Because of passage in those three states, 25% of the United States' citizens live in non-preference/non-discrimination states.

Below you will find our FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS. We invite all questions and any challenge to the answers. Challenges that turn out to be true will be immediately accepted and put up front. We hide nothing. We are fact-based. All postings have been researched, and are cited.

Race Free Zone is constructed to be of use to media, campaigners, debaters, petition circulators, candidates, and to any citizen who wants clear answers and facts.

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Why are these initiatives called "civil rights" initiatives?

Don't we already have this?

Are there "hidden consequences"?

Will gender-specific programs be eliminated?

Are gender-specific college sports "endangered"?

Will the Civil Rights Initiatives "threaten" or "put at risk" women's health, breast cancer screenings, shelters, domestic violence programs or gender-specific health programs funded by the state?

Is the language "deceptive"?

Do women make only 70% of men's incomes?

Are the circulators paid?

Are "outsiders" invading your state?

Who's on their side? Who's on our side?

Has affirmative action in college admissions actually resulted in a higher FAILURE rate for minority-student graduation?

Are women incompetent or is the State government sexist?

Why would a mother of a multi-race family be in favor of the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative?

Is America more racist now than in the past?

Is it true that multi-millionaire immigrants and wealthy Americans are getting affirmative action set-asides for "disadvantaged minorities"?

Did Ward Connerly "bless" the KKK?

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Friday, September 15, 2006

Thank you for the compliment and the forum

Last night, Greg Brodeur appeared before a Delta Kappa Gamma Society women's
group of teachers at Carman Ainsworth HS in Flint, and faced off with an
affirmative-action advocate. This is the note we received this morning from
the coordinator.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Delores DiGiacomo"
To: "Diane Carey"
Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006 10:06 AM
Subject: Re: questions


> Dear Diane and Greg:
> Thank you again for providing us with a chance to hear
> both sides of the Michigan Affirmative Action
> Initiative. It was great hearing you speak so
> eloquently, and it was nice to meet your family {some
> in person and some through words). Having been a
> public speaking teacher for about 20 of my 39 career
> years, I am well qualified to recognize a speaker who
> knows how to hold an audience's attention, and I think
> you did a great job of doing so. There were many who
> disagree with your opinion (as I am sure you might
> guess), and I thought you handled the questions and
> the other speaker with respect.
>
>
> Thanks again for helping me out in a pinch, and doing
> so with class. You represented you point of view
> well, and I was happy to meet each of you. Good luck
> to your son in his studies. He seemed like someone
> committed to serving the community. Apparently he has
> had a great example.
>
> Sincerely,
> Delores Di Giacomo, President, Delta Kappa Gamma
> Society International, Mu Chapter Alpha Iota, Michigan
>
> >> Diane and Greg
>
>
> __________________________________________________
>

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