The EEOC — not a “welcoming society”:
EEOC Withdraws Invitation for CEO to Testify on Affirmative Action
Anti-Preference Statement Called Too Controversial, Meeting Cancelled
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has rescinded an invitation it had extended to the president and general counsel of the Center for Equal Opportunity, Roger Clegg, to testify on a panel at a May 17 Commission meeting on the topic of “Striking a Balance: EEO, Diversity, and Affirmative Action.” It informed Clegg of its decision last Friday, and, when asked to reconsider, announced today that the entire meeting for tomorrow morning had been cancelled.
Mr. Clegg had, per the Commission’s request, circulated his written statement to the EEOC last Thursday. It is now posted on the Center for Equal Opportunity’s website, www.ceousa.org. The next day, Clegg was told that the Commission’s chair, Cari M. Dominguez, had decided to withdraw his invitation. Clegg was told that the career staff at the Commission would “mutiny”; he was also told that many establishment civil-rights groups had called to object to the testimony.
Mr. Clegg said today: “The Center for Equal Opportunity’s message is that the law protects all Americans from discrimination–white and black, male and female, Asian and Latino, Arab American and American Indian. There is also no logical, empirical, or moral justification for companies to treat employees differently based on their skin color, where their ancestors were born, or their sex–and the EEOC should be enforcing the law accordingly. It is bad enough that the EEOC is not enforcing the law evenhandedly and is allowing preferential treatment; it is worse that it will not even tolerate any criticism of its denial of the equal protection of the laws.”