The Michigan Civil Rights Initiative passed 58% to 42%, despite the fact that opponents spent four times as much money as its proponents and every big organization in Michigan opposed it. Defeated politicians usually shrug and say, “The people have spoken” or something like that, but University of Michigan president Mary Sue Coleman is sounding like George Wallace when told that Alabama schools would have to desegregate. Peter Kirsanow, a member of the US Civil Rights Commission (also the National Labor Relations Board) provides an excellent discussion of the great legal and educational problems facing those who want to shout “affirmative action now and forever” in this excellent NRO article.