Fiercely committed to the ideal of a color-blind America Connerly has successfully campaigned to ban racial preferences in state institutions. In this work Connerly extols the traditional virtues of personal accountability as a ballast to race industry s culture of victimhood. Fiercely committed to the ideal of a color-blind America Ward Connerly has successfully campaigned to ban racial preferences in state institutions in California Washington and Michigan. Yet in Lessons from Uncle James Connerly argues that even after we move beyond the color of our skin we must still address the content of our character. With this Connerly extols the traditional virtues of personal accountability as a ballast to race industry s culture of victimhood.