Thanks to Harry Stein for a fair analysis of the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative; it's indeed a sad betrayal of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that an almost-identical initiative is being targeted by big labor, big business and big government, led by scores of blacks and liberal whites who think they own "civil rights" as an ideal. Read the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the language is almost identical to MCRI--stop the government from discriminating against or for anyone on the basis of race, gender, skin color, ethnicity or nationality. The biggest "coalition" is still for it, not against it--Michigan's citizens who have seen that 40 years of race-based affirmative action has tragically divided us and needs to end.