Since November 2003, I’ve documented on this blog all the reasons why race preferences have got to go. Here is one more. Instead of simply hiring the most qualified job candidates, a private prison firm doing business with the government rejected candidates based on race and hired others based on race. Qualified blacks, Asians, whites, and American Indians (Thank you for not calling them Native Americans!) were passed over for hispanics.
According to the Department of Labor, the issue is not that “affirmative action” is inherently unfair to all candidates, but that it wasn’t properly applied in this situation.
What is going on? The Civil Rights of 1964 was supposed to end the government skin game. But 43 years after people were killed and injured in the name of justice, and paid with blood, sweat, and tears for the right to be judged without regard to their skin color, our government is still judging citizens as members of racial groups instead of as individuals with equality before the law.
I can’t tell you how frustrating this crap is. I am tired of hearing and reading stories about people suing because the government didn’t discriminate in favor of them and listening to pea-brains defend the government’s use of race. What was the Civil Rights movement all about, for crying out loud? Our parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents killed Jim Crow so their children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren could breathe life back into him? Why would any citizen want to give government the authority to judge us based on race? Well, as long as “our” race is the one receiving the benefits of the skin game, what does it matter?
Absolutely disgusting. If I wanted to stoop as low as my detractors, I’d call them self-haters for not having the decency even to be a little embarrassed for defending lowered standards for blacks. I mean, what’s more self-hating than that???
But I don’t, so I won’t. The things I’d say to such people if I weren’t a Christian…
I blog about this topic so much because race preferences are foul and demeaning, and liberals need to know that not all blacks want or need such patronizing policies. No amount of historical wrongs or present-day grievances — zero — will ever justify the odious practice.
At a time like this, I have to remember a line (with the smilie next to it) from a similar post. [Double secret coded message] Indeed! Have a restful weekend, readers.
(Hat tip: Discriminations)
