A central task confronting our democracy is to establish a legal order in which all citizens enjoy the equal protection of the laws. It should be clear by now to anyone who looks at the facts that the entrenched use of racial preferences in education, employment, and government contracting has become inconsistent with this goal. Clint Bolick makes this case with impressive force. While I may difffer with him on some particulars, the overall thrust of his argument is compelling, and deserves a wide readership.--Glen Loury, Author, One by One from the Inside Out
America's moral claim is based on its commitment to civil rights for all. Yet no issue seems as politically divisive as our current civil rights policies, which attorney Clint Bolick assails as "trickle-down civil rights"--bestowing entitlements on those with the greatest skills and resources but doing little to help people outside the economic mainstream.
By promoting race and gender preferences in jobs, government contracts, and college admissions; forced busing; and an apartheid-like system of racial gerrymandering, these policies deepen racial hostilities and undermine our commitment to individual rights while producing few tangible results.
Bolick explains in clear terms how the civil rights movement strayed off course and demonstrates what is needed to get it back on track. He challenges Americans to reclaim and reinvigorate the original civil rights vision by grounding it in individual empowerment rather than group rights. This bold book shows the way to heal the racial divide in this country and at long last fulfill America's promise of justice for all.
Clint Bolick is litigation director at the Institute for Justice in Washington, D.C. He previously served in the U.S. Department of Justice and at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
This book is distributed to the trade through National Book Network in Lanham, Maryland.
1996/170pp./$19.95 cloth ISBN: 1-882577-27-2/$10.95 paper ISBN: 1-882577-28-0
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