The Connerly-inspired efforts currently being advanced in Nebraska and 4 other states are wholly premature.

Jose J. Soto, InMotionMagazine.com

Efforts to eliminate affirmative action as a tool for attaining equal opportunity and social justice are current and active in five states (Arizona, Colorado, Missouri, Nebraska, and Oklahoma). The time will come when affirmative action should be eliminated, and when that time comes I will ardently champion its elimination. I believe, however, that time is not yet here.

In Grutter v. Bollinger [539 U.S. 306 (2003)] the U.S. Supreme Court opined, through Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, that attaining the educational benefits that flow from a diverse student body was a sufficiently compelling interest to warrant taking race into account in making admissions decisions to higher education. The majority opinion in Grutter stated that "(w)e expect that 25 years from now, the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary to further the interest approved today."

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