Ed Jones in the news
The following articles are about or written by Jones and appeared in The Colorado Springs Gazette or other national media.
Affirmative action is again on hot seat
Originally published, September 28, 2008 (The Gazette)
"We're always going to have discrimination, Ed Jones said. "But you don't try to be a colorblind society by discriminating, and that's what this thing was doing. It was discriminating against whites. It was discriminating against everybody else.
Jones, who is black, was talking the other day about affirmative action, the practice of giving consideration to race or gender as a factor in education, employment or contracting. MORE
Obama's success proof nation far from color blind
Originally published, August 24, 2008 (The Gazette)
BY ED JONES GUEST COLUMNIST
Just in my lifetime, we have gone from being a country where no black man or woman ever could hope to be president, to a country that is now on the verge of electing a president simply because he is black. I can think of only two things that distinguished Barack Obama from most of his Democratic Party rivals during this year's presidential primaries: He actually has less political experience than most of them do, and he happens to have black skin. Neither one is a qualification, yet black and white Democrats alike have abandoned the other presidential hopefuls and have embraced him.... MORE
Preferential treatment programs work against minorities
Originally published, September 2, 2007 (The Gazette)
By ED JONES GUEST COLUMNIST
As a state senator from Colorado Springs in 2004, I sponsored legislation called the "Colorado Civil Rights Act." It would have prohibited any public entity in Colorado from discriminating - or granting preferential treatment on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity or national origin. The act would have applied to public employment, public education and public contracting.
My measure would have had far-reaching effects. It would have meant no more of those "set-aside" programs that lead to so much finger-pointing and litigation in government contracting... MORE
Colorado group pushes to abolish affirmative action
Originally published, April 23, 2007 (The Gazette)
Colorado voters could be voting next year on abolishing affirmative action programs, including racial preferences in college admissions. Led by a former Colorado Springs woman who fought an affirmative action case for years, the Colorado Civil Rights Initiative announced plans Monday... MORE
Jones' bill confounds black leaders
Originally published, February 11, 2004 (The Gazette)
DENVER - Black leaders in Colorado Springs are calling on Sen. Ed Jones to meet with the black community and explain why he is behind a measure to eliminate affirmative action in Colorado. Local black leaders are appalled that Jones, a Republican from Colorado Springs and one of two black state senators, would want to do away with a program... MORE
Affirmative Action Rebuff by CO Reps - On the Right Track!
Originally published, August 12, 2003 (Free Republic)
Rep. Dave Schultheis Applauds Owens, Jones on Affirmative Action
Colorado State Rep. Dave Schultheis (R-Colorado Springs) today applauded Gov. Bill Owens and state Sen. Ed Jones in their opposition to race-based admissions criteria in Colorado colleges and universities.
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