Just like any member of the human race, blacks can be quite hypocritical. Back in the day when skin color discrimination harmed blacks, they righteously rebelled against it. Today, skin color discrimination benefits blacks, and they hypocritically embrace it and demand even more. David Gelernter calls affirmative action “good cheating.”
In practice, affirmative action means cheating in a good cause. (But all cheating, for any cause, gnaws at a nation’s moral innards like termites.) Affirmative action means a plus factor in university admissions, job hiring and promotion for candidates from protected groups, in the interests of “diversity.” (But why should “diversity” mean official “minorities” and women but not libertarians, farmers, Mormons, Texans, children of soldiers, aspiring Catholic priests, etc.?)Affirmative action is highly unpopular: A 2003 Washington Post-Harvard-Kaiser Family Foundation survey found that 92% of the public (86% of blacks) agreed that admissions, hiring and promotion decisions “should be based strictly on merit and qualifications other than race/ethnicity.” Only bureaucrats and intellectuals (species that are more closely related than they seem) love affirmative action.
Is it really “cheating”? In 2003, Linda Chavez, the head of the Center for Equal Opportunity, described University of Michigan freshman admissions as they stood in the mid-1990s: “We found that the odds ratio favoring admission of a black applicant with identical grades and test scores to a white applicant was 174 to 1.” The high court struck down that admissions procedure, but it’s a frightening reminder of what people can do in the name of fairness. (Source)
So if affirmative action is so unpopular, why does it exist? In theory, most people believe in merit-based gain. But in practice, we want more than we have, and we falsely believe we deserve what others have.
Diversity, a word white liberals use for political leverage, is one reason why individuals will never be truly equal to other individuals. We are of diverse ideas (some ideas are better than others), talent, skill, motivation, and drive. The irony is lost on most.
A gotta-get-mine attitude is simply a natural manifestation of our fallen nature, which means we all possess it at various times about certain things. But when blacks chose to embrace race-based privileges to “get theirs,” all semblance of pride and dignity was lost for generations, and the history of the Civil Rights struggle was turned on its head.
I can say with 99.9 percent certainty that those who endured billy club beatings, lynchings, firehose spray, and dog bites didn’t do it so that one day their children and grandchildren could be deemed pitiable, too inferior for equal treatment, and too dumb to strive for the American dream on their own merits.
With black complicity, misguided white social engineers bearing unwarranted guilt created social policies that will continue to stifle our achievement through the use of lowered standards for generations to come.
And black liberals call me a sell-out?
(Image from Civil Rights Movement Veterans)
Update: Let me clear up a common misconception. This blog is a forum for my views. It’s not my intent to “win” arguments. The reason I update this site almost every day is to publish my opinions. At my privilege, revocable at any time, readers may comment.
Think of LBC as a benevolent dictatorship, not a democracy or open forum. If you believe this is unfair, such is life. Instead of pontificating on my site about “debating the issues” and flinging silly charges of “censorship,” do what I’ve done: build your own readership on your own blog and have all the “debates” you want. Yes, it’s hard work, but with consistent, interesting blogging and time, you’ll soon have a blog frequented by people telling you how to run it, just as I do.
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Update II: I’ll be appearing on the CORE Hour (on Right Talk) on Tuesday around 3:20 p.m. with Niger Innis to talk about another demeaning policy: the mainstreaming of black slang, also known as substandard English, also known as “ebonics.” I’ll post a reminder.
Related:
- The Immorality of Race Preferences
- Jewish World Review
- Black Immigrants Work Harder
- Gates and Race Politics
