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NFP Position on Rolling Back
Affirmative Action

Paul Olson
President of NFP

The Nebraskans for Peace Executive Committee has voted to oppose the initiative petition campaign that would essentially repeal Affirmative Action in Nebraska. We are backing up this public statement by actively working with the statewide coalition opposing this petition-gathering effort to place constitution amendment on the November ballot. State Board member Patrick Jones, Assistant Professor of History and Ethnic Studies at UNL, is representing Nebraskans for Peace on the coalition steering committee. Much of the leadership and impetus opposing repeal has in fact emerged from campus NFP chapters and student leaders like Nic Swiercek, who has been working closely with cultural advocacy groups such as the Afrikan Peoples Union at UNL.

Our first opportunity to defeat this petition drive is to keep the petition campaign from gathering the necessary number of signatures to qualify for ballot status. Tell your friends and neighbors who are approached to sign the petition that this initiative is not what it purports to be. It does not provide for equality of opportunity, as its deceptively titled name would suggest. The petition gatherers are mostly out-of-state ‘hired guns,’ originally sponsored by a California rightwing group, who are now seeking, through their ‘front organization’ in the state to undermine the minimal progress we’ve made towards diversity. Should this roll-back get onto the ballot — and then pass, NFP Executive Committee believes it will do enormous damage to the ongoing effort to promote equality for people of color and women, both in education and in the world of employment and entrepreneurship.

Use the information in the “Don’t Be Deceived” article on the facing page to actively encourage your friends and neighbors not to sign. None of what we’re proposing negates the criticisms of NFP board member A’Jamal Byndon that Affirmative Action has not been ‘very real’ in much of Nebraska. The answer, we believe though, lies in even more affirmative action on the part of our government — not less.