{"id":5093,"date":"2003-12-11T14:26:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-11T14:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=5093"},"modified":"2021-06-13T21:11:30","modified_gmt":"2021-06-13T21:11:30","slug":"initial-mich-response-supports-end-to-race-gender-preferences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2003\/12\/11\/initial-mich-response-supports-end-to-race-gender-preferences\/","title":{"rendered":"Initial Mich. response supports end to race, gender preferences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freep.com\/news\/education\/affirm4_20031204.htm\">Initial Mich. response supports end to race, gender preferences<\/a><br \/>\nPublished December  4, 2003<br \/>\nBY RUBY BAILEY<br \/>\nFREE PRESS WASHINGTON STAFF<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Two-thirds of Michigan residents favor a constitutional amendment banning discrimination or preferential treatment for minorities, a Free Press poll shows.<\/p>\n<p>The poll also suggests that a proposed amendment&#8217;s wording and campaign ads attacking it could make for a much closer outcome than the two-thirds margin.<\/p>\n<p>Supporters plan to present language for a constitutional amendment today to a state elections board in Lansing. They want to put it before Michigan voters in November. They seek to limit affirmative action. Their group, an offshoot of Ward Connerly&#8217;s American Civil Rights Institute in California, needs 320,000 signatures to put a proposed amendment onthe ballot.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Initial Mich. response supports end to race, gender preferences Published December 4, 2003 BY RUBY BAILEY FREE PRESS WASHINGTON STAFF Two-thirds of Michigan residents favor a constitutional amendment banning discrimination or preferential treatment for&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[63,141],"tags":[127],"class_list":["post-5093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-d-powells-view","category-news-clips","tag-affirmative-action-and-diversity"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/AD-Powell.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-1k9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7301,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5093\/revisions\/7301"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}