Posted on 08/22/2008 10:18:27 AM PDT by NewMediaJournal
Let’s call a spade a spade (pardon the pun). Hmmm, I wonder if I will get called on the carpet for using this expression. I read recently that the expression black hole was spun as racist. The real issue is that a very vocal minority fights to continue to have race define us. Again, I wonder if I’ll get called on the carpet for using the word minority correctly. What this has done is perpetuate the idea that one group of people needs assistance in order to achieve equality with another group of people. There must be a distinction made between the American tradition of equality: by virtue of being human there is equality of liberty, and Socialism: equality of outcomes. Equality of outcomes is what builds resentment; I don’t care what color the person.
What do I fear? I fear that a person who is less qualified will be voted into office on the basis of color, not qualifications. And that is a sentiment that should transcend party lines if a person votes their conscience. If we’re going to blind to something, we should be blind to the color of a person’s skin, not to a political party that uses race to divide and conquer so as to re-enslave on the basis of a person’s skin in a quest for political power.
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Clearly, as the black sheep in the family, there is now a little black mark next to your name in the DNC little black book.
Affirmative action, busing, etc. may have made sense in 1965 to help remedy past discrimination. But to make affirmative action permanent seems wrong.
Nobody applying to college or grad. school today attended a legally segregated school.
Only the oldest of job seekers today, in their late 50s or 60s would have experienced discrimination.
Affirmative action should have been implemented with an expiration date.
It is now 44 years since the Civil Rights Act of 1964. And I think Pres. Johnson’s first executive order on affirmative action was in 1965.
So many years have passed, can’t we reach a point where we can say we have done all that can be done in this area? And also say that for young people growing up today, that none of them has experienced any of the old discrimination that people keep talking about???????
It seems the Democrats are ready to support an unqualified candidate with the idea that the race card will get him elected. The adoring media has permitted their message to degenerate to the point where all they have is accusations and intimidation. All of the positive media support has made them complacent and lazy.
Whatever you do - don’t call Africa “the Dark Continent”, either!
The author is clearly a "homophobe".
“I fear that a person who is less qualified will be voted into office on the basis of color, not qualifications.”
You dare to criticize the Obamessiah?
That’s racist!
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