Racial resolution

Increasing numbers of Americans defy racial categories, but the American Bar Association wants the government to keep trying to count us by race. At its 2003 annual meeting last week, the group's House of Delegates registered its opposition to proposals that would prevent the government from collecting racial data.

The meeting took place in San Francisco two months before Californians will vote on such a proposal. Proposition 54, the so-called "Racial Privacy Initiative" championed by University of California Regent Ward Connerly, will appear on the ballot in the Oct. 7 gubernatorial recall election. Mr. Connerly previously spearheaded Proposition 209, adopted in 1996, which prohibits racial discrimination in public education, employment, and contracting.

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