True North

Section 2

Preserving Civil Rights

The Republican Party, the party that abolished slavery,believes that the government should treat all of it's citizens equally under the law.Therefore we advocate:

K. Encouraging respect for American heritage and our status as American citizens rather than as members of any group; prohibiting any forms of discrimination by government including preferences or quotas for employment, student admissions and faculty hiring, or set-asides in the awarding of government contracts; repealing all statutes which require unequal treatment or special preferences for such groups; and prohibiting the collection and storage of data on any person by any government agency for the purpose of identifying and discriminatingamong such groups.

Forty years have passed since the Civil rights Act became the law of our land.Yet we still use discrimination as an antidote for discrimination.It's a wrong, immoral and destructive practice.The problems we have with mortgage foreclosures are a prime example of this fact.In their zeal to make the housing market "fair" lenders were encouraged to make loans they should not have made, and our economy is suffering for it.

We celebrated Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's birth last week.The single greatest statement he ever made was from his I Have A Dream speech, that one day men would be judged not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.I crave such a society.

When will we be able to close the doors of the EEOC?At what time will we be satisfied that we as a society have moved beyond the politics of race that Bill and Hillary Clinton are so shamelessly employing at this very moment?

We need to move on as a nation.We need to release the pain of a tragic past and embrace a free and fearless future.We need to put Affirmative Action in it's proper place in the history books and start a new day.

That's right friends, it's time for Change.

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