As a black person who abhors race preferences, I’m unusual. Yes, I benefited from “affirmative action”, but I still hate it.
So I’m surfing the web looking for something interesting to blog about, and I run into this: “Blacks, whites split by drive to ban affirmative action.”
I knew it was too early to deal with “affirmative action” after I read this black woman’s quote:
“As a black woman, I know I’m not going to be viewed the same way as a white man is as far as being capable,” she said with a stern expression on her face, her eyes watering. “Affirmative action protects against that kind of thinking.”
Now maybe it’s just me, but I’d be embarrassed to give a quote like this to a national publication. She really believes that under race preferences, she’s protected against being viewed as inferior? Illogical. Jim Crow all over again. Separate but unequal.
Race preferences divide. Blacks and whites should hate it equally. But here we have quotes from blacks that sound like whining. Race preferences embarrass me, and I don’t know why other black people aren’t embarrassed. And angry.
You have a system that perpetuates the worst stereotype–that blacks are inferior–and it’s seen as a progressive thing. One black student says this:
“If the playing field was level, then blacks would be represented proportionately on college campuses and in all kinds of career fields,” said Gary Jones, 21, a UM-Flint senior. “Minorities are highly underrepresented in education — that’s obvious.”
What’s obvious is this kid hasn’t grasped the concept of cause and effect very well. The reasons blacks aren’t “represented proportionately” vary. Two random reasons are the lousy “education” they receive K-12 and the lack of focus on education in some black homes.
When you have black students being socially promoted or showing up at the bottom on standardized tests, the focus should be on overhauling an entire subcuture, not perpetuating mediocrity by handing them seats in college classes they didn’t earn. I get so irritated when I read stories like this.
The reporter has a pronounced bias that’s obvious from the lack of quotes from blacks who oppose race discrimination. Why don’t reporters ever ask me what I think about race preferences? I suspect the reporter did get quotes from people like me but chose not to print them. The premise of his story is the “split” between the races on this issue. I would’ve tipped the scale on his “balanced” reporting.
