Uncle Tom Bammer Ward Connerly Retires from CA. Board of Regents

• HATER of Blacks & Latinos retires after 12-year term

Ward Connerly - reviled as an Uncle Tom, hailed as a man of principle and unflinching courage - is moving on to another battlefield. Connerly's term as a member of the University of California Board of Regents is drawing to a close after 12 turbulent years in which he led the university, and then the state of California, to drop affirmative action. Michigan may be the next battleground for Connerly, who is of black, white and American Indian descent. He and others recently announced they have enough signatures to get a proposed constitutional amendment on that state's 2006 ballot that would ban race and gender-based preferences in admissions and government hiring. The 65-year-old Connerly, who will attend his final meeting as a regent this week, was a little-known Sacramento consultant in the land-development business when he was appointed to the Board of Regents in 1993 by Republican Gov. Pete Wilson. In 1995, 13 hours into a tense, stomach-churning meeting interrupted by a bomb threat and punctuated by a protests led by the Rev. Jesse Jackson, Connerly's colleagues on the Board of Regents voted 14-10 to dismantle race-based admissions. [more] and [more] and [more]