We won. Now look at the opposition to civil rights for everyone in the light of day.

All of the people of Michigan have won an increase in their civil rights by voting to restore America's constitutional values. This was achieved by what the philosophers of the enlightenment, whose works influenced and guided men such as James Madison and Thomas Jefferson, called the genius of the people.

The campaign against the MCRI was despicable and directed by white and black elites anxious to preserve their control over complacent black voters. Blinded by their fear of losing power they ignored the facts and sowed fears of illogical consequences. The politicians of both major political parties rejected the expansion of civil rights and adopted fear as their reason for doing so. The idiotic Republican candidate talked about "unintended consequences," and the clueless Democrat incumbent spoke of "consequences." The Republican actually lost the election on this issue, because by embracing the MCRI he would have won.

I, for one, will now stop using hyphens to describe human beings as divided into groups for political purposes especially tribal, religious, or skin-tone groups. In fact I will never again use a hyphen to describe a human being's politics. I start off by officially consigingn so-called descriptive, but actually intended to be divisive, words such as African-American, Black, Negro, and colored to the garbage dump of history, because they are used up and cannot be recycled for any good purpose.

Welcome to the first morning of a Michigan where all people are created equal without the need for hyphens.