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Hundreds of progressive, civil rights, and ethnic organizations have come together to oppose Propositon 54, which would eliminate the "race" box from state forms, and disallow the collection of data based on race or ethnicity.
Proponent Ward Connerly has been called, by some, a self-hating Black man. He, along with prominent conservative Black supporters like Shelby Steele and Thomas Sowell, have long argued for "colorblindness" in government institutions, and social unity through a multicultural nationalism. Like conservative think tanks that dumb down macroeconomics for their constituency, their website states that this ballot initative will only "remove the little box from government forms." A recent poll quoted in Time indicated that 50% of people supported Prop 54.
Opponents to Prop 54 say its passage will render impossible, efforts to address racial disparities in health care, hate crimes, at the workplace, and school. Diseases affect some groups more than others, and health care initiatives would be unable to target these groups. Improvements in hate crimes and education would be impossible to track, and, thus, those programs would be effectively eliminated.
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