What is the Nebraska Civil Rights Initiative (NECRI)?

The Nebraska Civil Rights Initiative is a constitutional amendment. The amendment makes it unconstitutional for the state to discriminate against or grant preferential treatment to any group or individual on the basis or race, sex, color, ethnicity or national origin in the areas of public contracting, public education or public employment.

Have Civil Rights Initiatives been successful in other states?

Despite being outspent at a rate of at least four to one, state initiatives banning affirmative action programs that grant preferential treatment based on race or sex have successfully passed in three states:

California in 1996, 55%-45%
Washington State in 1998 59%-41%
Michigan in 2006 58%-42%

Do race preferences exist in Nebraska?

Yes, however, the opponents of the NECRI would have you believe otherwise.

In all of the states that have passed a Civil Rights Initiative there has been the need for exhaustive research to identify the use of preferences in college admissions, state hiring, and state contracting.

Racial and gender preference programs are increasingly hid from the public and renamed to try to ensure the continued use of preferences in hiring, contracting, and college admissions.

During the upcoming months announcements will be made about the use of preferences in Nebraska.

Who is the Nebraska Civil Rights Initiative?

It is a group of Nebraskans that are organizing to end the use of preferences in hiring, contracting, and college admissions. Also, Ward Connerly and his organizations, the American Civil Rights Institute and the American Civil Rights Coalition, will actively educate the public in Nebraska of the harms of racial preferences. Ward Connerly played a prominent role in passing these initiatives in California, Washington and Michigan.

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