Since he became a University of California Regent in 1993, Ward Connerly, the most notorious and fanatical right wing opponent of civil rights in California, has used this position as a platform from which to spearhead a series of state-wide and national attacks on civil rights and integration. Ward Connerly is the frontman of a right wing national effort aimed at outlawing affirmative action, resegregating higher education, and rendering Brown v. Board of Education a dead letter.

Connerly was the principal author and champion of Proposition 54, an attack on civil rights, freedom of information, and academic freedom so extreme and irrational that it was rejected by 63.9% of California voters of all parties. The U.C. Regents should bring an end to this disgraceful abuse of the name of the University of California.

*We, the undersigned, call for U.C. Regent Ward Connerly’s immediate removal.*