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Summary: Absolutely horrible!
Review: Ward Connerly has led the fight for equal opportunity in California. This volume is his story, and it deserves to be read by all who are seriously interested in understanding the vital contrast between real equality and the racial preference system known as affirmative action. Connerly's vision points the way to a sound resolution of America's racial problems, and indicates how to achieve good will and tolerance between American men and women of all races and creeds. This is an outstanding book by an exceptional and courageous man.
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Summary: Excellent
Review: Ward Connerly is continuing the quest and the dream of his Uncle James. A man who knew that it took sacrifice, tenacity and perseverance to reach any goal.Ward's Uncle James also knew that sometimes it takes the ultimate sacrifice by one generation or even two or three to provide that golden opportunity, which America offers to those who know the prize that waits at the end of that long road of trial and tribulation. The prize that can and does wait for the next generation, or the next, or the next of every American who can still dream. This is a realization lost at most levels of government and social activism today, but not by average Americans and those special immagrants who flock to our shores and our boarders"legally." Ward was able to more easily live and fulfill the American Dream, for himself and his family due primarily to the efforts of his Uncle and others like him. In this book and in this ground breaking and rediscovered ideology and philosophy from our founding past, within the minority community, Ward elevates himself to equal status with many great historical figures of our past like Patrick henry, Booker T. Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King Jr. In addition he joins ranks with the likes of Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, JC Watts, Clarence Thomas and so many others over the past 200 years. In short those who refuse to claim victim-hood but who rather claim full and equal citizenship. They do not hate America, they love it, and search for the brass ring wherever it may present itself, not just at the top of the economic ladder. These giants of the minority community looked at the timidity of those around them, who knew a wrong was being ignored, allowed, permitted and yes even encouraged by segments of society and decided to stand on their own two feet. They bravely turned away from the spiritually, morally, professionally and civilly deficiencies of the victicrates of the modern civil rights movement and took a courageous and decisive stand against them. They claimed full citizenship and full responsiblity for their own destinies and actions and thereby took their place among the great Americans of our time. In defiance of the thought police, the status quo, political correctness and reverse discrimination. Mr. Connerly led a crusade to battle racism, quotas, preferences and anti-American social corruption, which had seeped into the very fabric of the American education system, mainstream thought, politics and high-society. As more and more Americans now turn away from the belittling hypocrisies and bigotry of the progressive movement in this area of preferences that claims eternal victim-hood. Ward Connerly needs to be recognized and remembered for his Paul Revere like gallop across the Aemrica scene exposing the degenerative affects upon our country and our freedoms and liberties by this now mutated, oppressive and ineffective force called quotas and preferences. Creating Equal is an inspiring book, about a family with a commendable and praiseworthy past who chose the path of honor, duty and country. It is a book about a true American Hero who had "True Grit," who has definitely joined my list of highly respected American authors. A book with a revelation for the future and those not so reasoned, rational and patriotic, those minority icons stuck in the past and filled with vengeance, greed and hate. A great read.
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