Update II (11/29): Hard truth #101 (free reg. req.): “To ensure diversity among new associates, the study found, elite law firms hire minority lawyers with, on average, much lower grades than white ones. That may, the study says, set them up to fail.”
Regardless of what anyone reading this blog thinks about me or why I write about preferences, “diversity” is code for “lowering the bar to admit and hire black people.”
There just aren’t enough blacks competitive with whites to go around, so in order to meet some elusive skin color goal, businesses and government must lower hiring and admissions standards for blacks. (Lowering standards for all would be impractical, not to mention detrimental.) This is fact, not opinion. Black affirmative action proponents know this, and they also know that race-neutral policies will not work to their benefit, at least not in the short run. It has nothing to do with white people “oppressing” or “discriminating” against them.
What’s the solution? It may sound simplistic, but I believe reversing the trend of fatherlessness in the black community, focusing on education (and enduring the attendant sacrifices to make it a top priority in practice, not just in theory), and quashing all tendencies to blame white people for anything would be ideal places to begin.
Later…Commenter and blogger Thomas Nguyen writes in the comment section:
It’s clear just from the tenor of this debate that multiculturalism is as divisive as ever. The assimilation model that America had before all these “isms” worked wonderfully for all Americans.
America is an idea sown together by a common language and a common reverence for two revolutionary documents – The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. All who immigrate and live in America are free to have these ideas imbued in their hearts and minds.
Multiculturalism and their concomitant ideologies say that differences are more important than what we all hold in common. It is the poison of this age that insists on being different, when to be fully human is to acknowledge and take delight in finding commonality, that is, having affinity and empathy for you fellow man.
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The Harry Potter fan in your life probably will love Who Killed Albus Dumbledore?: What Really Happened in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince?, written by hard-core Harry Potter fans.
You also may want to buy Christian writer and blogger Janet Batchler’s cool new book, What Will Harry Do? The Unofficial Guide to Payoffs and Possibilities in Book 7. I followed the series on her blog and look forward to reading the expanded version. Janet blogs at Quoth the Maven.
