Update (5:44 p.m.): Closing arguments! (Thanks, Hube.)
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Fight! Fight!
As someone who loathes government-mandated race preferences, I look forward to years of laugh-riot fun as preference-loving blacks and hispanics duel it out, fighting each other over government goodies.
Through Discriminations, one of my daily reads, I learned about a case involving a black cop named Kenneth A. Boyd in Wilmington, Delaware, who claims he was passed over for promotion because he’s black.
Boyd “alleges” that police chief Michael J. Szczerba promoted an undeserving hispanic instead. Oh, why does this sound familiar? According to the article, Szczerba “fostered a diverse police force,” which is code for skin color preferences. Only in this case, the Negro wasn’t the “preferred minority.”
A preferred minority group is one that is ostensibly underrepresented in certain jobs, schools, etc. Asians also are a minority group underrepresented in certain areas, but they are not “preferred.” Any guesses why?
Blacks have always been THE preferred minority group, but those days are coming to an end. Cases like Boyd’s are only the beginning. (Whites are becoming a minority group. Will they one day become a preferred minority? Stop laughing. I’m serious.)
With illegal aliens working on the cheap and meek, look for more stories about blacks crying, “Hispanic racist!” If for no other reason than hispanics are supplanting them as “preferred,” blacks should be speaking out against amnesty-for-illegal-aliens the loudest.
Here’s some advice: Jump off the preference bandwagon now and start supporting hiring and promoting based on merit, seniority — anything but race. By the way, being against race preferences for college admissions doesn’t mean you can’t support admissions based on legacies, athletics, or any other quality. Racial discrimination, above any other kind, has its own unique place in our history. This country has fought a long and hard battle to make amends for enslaving blacks and sending them to the back of the bus and making them walk through back doors.
Our race is part of who we are, something as immutable as death and taxes. No country calling itself free and a respecter of individual rights should be mandating that one race of people receive preference over the other. No government should condone admissions and hiring based on the color of one’s skin.
Government-mandated discrimination and preferences based on race were supposed to have been dismantled. That is what civil rights are about; these rights don’t, can’t, and shouldn’t guarantee that blacks or any other “minority” will be represented in any job or school in proportion to their percentage of the population.
The modern civil rights movement, the struggle for full citizenship status, has been corrupted. And the same people who support this corrupted form of “civil rights,” which is nothing more than government skin trade, will reap what they sow.
But all that preaching is for naught. Chasing and pointing at a phantom white racist is much more profitable and satisfying than standing up for race-neutral policies. Perhaps after dozens more lawsuits in which blacks allege that hispanics were hired or admitted at their expense, blacks who now support skin color preferences will finally understand that to sink or swim based on what you can do instead of on your membership in a preferred minority group is not such a bad idea after all.
