California Ballot Measure Seeks Diminution of Race Data

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Civil rights provocateur Ward Connerly will announce today his effort to secure a ballot measure that would prevent California public agencies, including colleges and universities, from collecting data on race and ethnicity.

"Race has created an artificial division, not because of economic circumstances or a true difference in people's lives, but because of an `us and them' mind-set, which flows from racial classifications," Mr. Connerly said in an interview yesterday, 24 hours before he was scheduled to announce his effort at press conferences in Sacramento and Los Angeles.

"By definition, we are putting people in separate places, when they really aren't …