If you write it, I will buy it
Ward Connerly. 
The article is about him, and the book is only a side-comment. But if he wrote the book, I would buy it. Curiosity, what can I say.
"Whites say, 'Thank you for helping us,''' said Connerly. ''They mean, thank you for helping us whites. They miss the larger picture when they see it that way."
He recalled a man attempting small talk at a reception honoring people who help to create a color-blind society.
''Do you know Tom Sowell?'' asked the guest, referring to the conservative black columnist and author. Another man chimed in: ''Have you ever met Justice Thomas?''
So much for color-blind, Connerly thought.
''It becomes clear to you that all they see is race,'' he said.
The new struggle to end affirmative action
Regent turns attention to Michigan
By RUBY L. BAILEY
Knight Ridder Newspapers
SACRAMENTO - Ward Connerly started thinking about what was wrong with white people right after he led a campaign to undo affirmative action programs.
Of Irish, American Indian and African-American heritage, Connerly wasn't bothered that his campaign for Proposition 209 to ban race and gender preferences in public university admissions and state hiring branded him a sellout with many blacks and Hispanics.
What unnerved him was the reaction of white Californians who supported his effort and who sought him out to thank him for ''helping us.''
Although Connerly and a majority of California voters agreed that racial preferences needed to go, he realized many of the people thanking him weren't motivated by the principle of equal treatment.
That's why Connerly thinks he needs to write a book that helps white Americans better understand black Americans.
''I'm going to tell them to walk in the shoes of black people,'' said Connerly. ''Tell them why it's so difficult for black people to let go of affirmative action. It's not just about getting those black people to do what everyone else thinks they ought to do.''
This is the same Ward Connerly, now 69, who has been telling black Americans to embrace competition and pull themselves up by those old bootstraps even if the playing field is bumpy. He's the same man trying to do in Michigan what he did in California and Washington state.
