Update II (4/7): Hube at Colossus of Rhodey blogs about the “disparate impact” theory.
Read more about disparate impact at Firehouse Diversity.
Update: Another city lowers police hiring standards for blacks and Hispanics; another win for “equality.”
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I’ve blogged about the Michigan Civil Right Initiative (MCRI) several times at LBC, and I’m pleased to report good news. The MCRI, the ballot initiative to end skin color and sex preferences in public hiring and admissions in Michigan, will appear on the November ballot. (Lansing State Journal photo)
Last week, the Michigan Supreme Court declined to review the opponents’ appeal.
For some reason, liberals in Michigan don’t want the people to vote on this matter, so they tried to keep it off the ballot, to no avail. A pro-skin color discrimination group called Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration and Immigrant Rights and Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary (BAMN) led the failed charge. You may download the court’s order here (PDF).
Ward Connerly organized the drive to end preferences in Michigan several years ago. I reviewed his autobiography in 2004, and I highly recommend it. Also highly recommended is one of my favorite blogs, Discriminations, written by John Rosenberg. He blogged about the recent victory for MCRI here and here.
Karen at Spunky Homeschool blogs about homeschooling mother Barbara Grutter, who was the plaintiff in a Supreme Court case on race preferences.
(Hat tip: Chetly Zarko, who also has a video documenting BAMN’s violence.)
[Side note: The Booker T. Washington conference was sort of emotional for me. I'll blog about it soon.]
The following was posted last year under the title “Good” Discrimination:
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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, fire hose 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?
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Related posts:
- University of Michigan Student Hates My Views
- Disappointing News For My Young Friend In Michigan
- A Sound Defeat For Skin Color Preferences in California
