Update III (9/13): Did you land here from a search on “Juan Williams Enough?” Follow this link to access my review of his fabulous book.
Update II (9/1): Juan Williams on Getting Past Katrina.
Commenter Tracey writes: “Our problems start in the home with the family. “The Man†doesn’t make Black men be irresponsible and bail on Black women. ‘The Man’ doesn’t make Black women devalue themselves by settling for dishonorable males and then being second generation of welfare recipients with too many mouths to feed. ‘The Man’ doesn’t make us glorify rappers as heroes and put down the Juan Williams, the Bill Cosbys, the Rev. Jesse Lee Pattersons and the La Shawn Barbers who demand that we hold ourselves to a higher standard.
“I get so frustrated hearing my fellow Black man or a Black woman say how we are so disenfranchised and too weak to go vote (by voting machine according to Cynthia McKinney), get an education, get employment and to stop having kids out of wedlock.
“I am ordering my copy of this book now and I can’t wait to read it. I plan on giving it to a couple of my bitter, liberal “revolutionary†friends that I met in college who still have those beliefs.”
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Just finished an interview with NPR’s Juan Williams, author of a new book, Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black America — and What We Can Do About It.
The interview will be excerpted for my Washington Examiner column and incorporated into a separate book review.
As a registered Democrat, Williams (whose son is a Republican) is quite brave for going against the flow and writing a book that’s highly critical of black so-called leadership and the current state of black America. He’s also very gracious. I asked him about blogs, of course. Can’t wait to share. Check the blog for links to the interview and review.
In other news, Thomas Lifson at The American Thinker dissects an article about skin color diversity in the University of California system. He notes that so-called diversity programs are aimed at the wrong group:
The whole edifice rests on doublespeak because the aim is to help certain groups at the expense of other groups…There is no majority population in California. Whites are a plurality, but they are under half of the population. So the euphemism “underrepresented minority†is employed. Falsely. You see, because Asian-heritage students excel at academics, they now outnumber whites at the top UC campuses. Caucasians account for a substantially smaller share of UC enrollment at the elite campuses than their share of the California population.
That means that whites are by definition an underrepresented minority! But you will never see UC including whites in the various schemes to benefit groups on the basis of race. Nor will they admit that the net effect of their efforts at racial engineering, should they succeed, would be to penalize hard-studying members of a racial minority…Fortunately, California voters passed an initiative banning the state from preferences based on race. So the bureaucrats are forced to resort to nonsense language and stealth to implement their agenda. In the process, they damage the university, penalize those who work hardest to achieve, and waste time and money.
Emphasis added. Good — and true — stuff. Will whites in California start clamoring for skin color preferences? Interesting!
California is a rogue state, and some of its judges follow suit. Despite state law, approved by 54 percent of the voters, that prohibits the use of race in public hiring, education, and contracting, a state court judge says, and I paraphrase, “So what? I’m not bound by state law.”
Gail A. Andler decided from on high that race may be considered when setting school attendance boundaries.
Update: March Hare blogged about Asians at UC and affirmative action last year. Check out Part I and Part II.
