Hey LB…Merry Christmas!

No extra points…what about Michael Brown from FEMA? We the American taxpayers paid for his ineptness. We’re sinking nearly a trillion dollars into the sands of Iraq for a “cakewalk”. The basketball teams are owned an operated by white men, THEY hire the black players. Blacks do not own the teams they play for, they don’t own the music companies they sing and dance for, they are just employees. No more, no less.

… should mirror the racial, ethnic and gender makeup of our state.

or the racial, ethnic, and gender makeup of any geographic area. Interests, skills, and talents just don’t run in nice little racial, ethnic, and gender packages. If that were true, then professional basketball teams would be only 12-13% black and half female… Hire the best person for the position, male, female, black, white, Hispanic, Asian, or other. Without dumbing down tests or job requirements. No “extra” points for anything.

This argument is absolutely asinine. The NFL owners are a whites only club–no minority need apply. They do the hiring and firing, not the few Negroes on the field, they are just employees (albeit highly skilled and highly compensate), but there is a really rich white guy writing those million dollar checks.

Moreover, it’s not a skin color thing in the NFL. During last year’s Super Bowl, no one said is the dark chocolate Coach Lovey of the Chicago Bears going to beat light skinned Coach Dungy of the Indianapolis Colts—NO! Nobody mentioned the skin color of either coach, but the news was these were the first African American coaches in the Super Bowl that’s not skin color, that’s racial classification. If they were two Chinese coaches it would still be a big deal, because only white coaches have won the Super Bowl from day one.

White women count in Affirmative Action, because they taxed and counted for political representation without the right to vote until the 1920’s. Lilly white native born women are also a part of the protected class, so of course this has absolutely positively nothing to do with skin color. It’s all about the political status with the American Government.

Black bashing is America’s favorite pass time. It’s easy to throw up the red herring undeserving Negro argument against Affirmative Action, since even black folks don’t like black folks. We’re so gosh damn tribal it’s not even funny. Black conservatives don’t like black liberals, and vice versa. But we’re all in the same boat of blackness, we either sail together or we sink together. The discriminatory laws and public policy affect us all.

From a piece at LaShawn:…you cannot, even if you lived 1,000 lifetimes, make a coherent and logically sound argument in favor of racial discrimination in the other direction. Nothing, not even the most heinous act committed against a black person by …

But perhaps there aren’t lots of black applicants. How will affirmative action make more people of the underrepresented groups apply? Will they send us some straw men to do the job?

Racial distribution in the workplace sounds, on the surface, like a worthy goal. But I’m not about to go along with forcing the numbers until they start with major league sports. When Asians are fairly represented in the NFL, then we can talk about skin color preferences in other workplaces.

Rev. Jackson, et al, how about telling the truth, that “your people” and ALL people need to work for what they wish to get (just as you did)? How about YOU applying Dr. King’s criteria?

Praise where praise is due: Oprah said this: “Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.” You go, Girl!

Judgment on the content of character alone! That’s my dream too. I’m just tired of blacks who have no skills but plenty of attitude cry “discrimination” when they don’t get what they haven’t earned AND I’m just tired of whites who have no skills but plenty of attitude blame “affirmative action” for their ills. I dream of a day when MY children are judged solely on their character (and on their actual performance–which, btw, 3 of my 4 kids have an abundance of worthy performance to be judged on, and they are being judged on that basis–end of brag–).

For that matter, I dream of a day when performance once again counts, when a child who does no work in school can get a failing grade, when an employee who does nothing can be fired, when I can get service from a supposed “service provider”. How about we get upset about this stuff, instead of about color of skin!

In a colorblind society where merit should hold ultimate sway, OBAMA isn’t even qualified to be assistant majority whip. He’s missed the most votes in the Senate even while he wasn’t running for president.

If he wasn’t black, we wouldn’t even have this conversation. But then again, liberal elitists will continue to defend affirmative action despite its widespread failure. Their support for Obama doesn’t surprise me.