Posted on 07/29/2015 9:14:55 AM PDT by Kaslin
There have been several notable cases of racial fakery. Years ago, then-law professor Elizabeth "Fauxcahontas" Warren falsely claimed that her great-grandfather was Cherokee Indian. A diversity-starved Harvard University jumped at the opportunity to hire her. She was so good at the racial fakery that a 1997 Fordham Law Review article lauded now-Sen. Warren as Harvard Law School's "first woman of color."
Racial fakery for private gain has been going on for decades. In 1990, there was a highly publicized case of outright racial lying. Two white men, twins Philip and Paul Malone, took the Boston Fire Department test. They failed. It turned out that the Boston Fire Department was under a consent decree mandating racial preferences, back then euphemistically called affirmative action but today called diversity. The Malone brothers retook the test, this time identifying themselves as black. Again their scores weren't high enough to be hired as whites, but they qualified under the lower standards for blacks and were hired. They worked for 10 years, until their racial fakery was discovered during a promotion proceeding. They were fired.
Then there's Vijay Chokal-Ingam, brother of "The Mindy Project" actress Mindy Kaling. He pretended to be black to successfully gain admission to the Saint Louis University School of Medicine but later dropped out.
Recently, there was the case of Rachel A. Dolezal, who told everyone that she was a member of my race, even though both of her parents are white. She profited immensely from racial fakery. She became president of the Spokane, Washington, office of the NAACP and became an instructor of Africana studies at Eastern Washington University. To top that off, she gained membership on Spokane's police oversight commission, where she examined police policies on race.
We must combat racial fakery. We can learn from South Africa. During its apartheid era, it, too, had a racial spoils system. The government combated racial fakery by enacting the Population Registration Act of 1950, which racially classified the country's entire population. The act laid down race definitions so as to thwart people, mostly "Coloureds," from taking privileges set aside for whites. For example, it defined a white person as one who "is in appearance obviously white -- and not generally accepted as Coloured -- or who is generally accepted as White -- and is not obviously Non-White."
Despite South Africa's careful attempts to define race, there was racial manipulation. A person charged with doing something prohibited for a native or Coloured might claim he had some white blood. The Population Registration Act ensured justice whereby a person aggrieved by a racial determination could appeal to a tribunal, known as the Race Classification Appeal Board. The act also provided that a third party could bring a complaint as to a person's racial classification. It provided for heavy penalties for frivolous objections to another's racial classification.
The Population Registration Act fortified both the Immorality Act of 1927, which prohibited sexual relations between Europeans and Africans, and the Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act of 1949, which banned marriage between Europeans and Africans. I wouldn't support the adoption of either one of those acts. But I do think that we need to adopt some of the features of South Africa's Population Registration Act. Why?
If Americans are going to have laws that mandate special privileges in college admission and employment, we must prevent racial fakery. We cannot permit a white or Asian person to take an opportunity that by law belongs to a black person. There should be DNA criteria to accurately determine one's race. Years ago in our country, "one drop" of Negro blood made it impossible for one to be white. With today's technological advances, we could be more precise.
Racial classification is not without other benefits. Suppose one wants to marry and at the same time keep his bloodline pure. Say he's a black man. Shouldn't he be protected from a racial imposter like Rachel Dolezal?
The problem with satire these days is that reality is always more absurd.
Williams is going heavy Swift.
Race should be irrelevant, always. Talent, intelligence, effort, etc should never be substituted for race or gender or whatever.
I agree entirely.
It thus follows (Modus tollens) - since the idea of conducting tests and forcing people into racial categories should be abhorrent to all Americans and incompatible with American values - that special privileges based on race must be banned.
Regards,
Sickening bunch of BS, isn’t it? And if we dare question the validity of any of this BS, we suddenly become racist. Makes one wonder what the United States and the world that we live in will be like a century from now.
1930s Naturalization Certificates list Jews as “Race: “Hebrew.”
You pay for “diversity” you’re gonna get “diversity,” in claims if not in real life.
Can you say it in Chinese? Do your children know Arabic? Chances are that one of those two languages will be de rigueur after a while. And being Moslem will either save your life or get you killed.
Abso-freekin-lutely!!!
WTF? I thought any kind of preferential treatment on the basis of race was wrong. Now I find out that racism has been institutionalized to the point where fighting fires is compromised? We are going to PC ourselves to death.
Hebrew
: a member of an ancient group of people who lived mostly in the kingdom of Israel and practiced Judaism
: the language of the ancient Hebrews
: the language of modern Israel
HERE’S THE ANSWER to racial preferences — everybody lies about their racial background and claims black, amerind, or latino origins and the racial-preference system will collapse!
http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2002/summer/immigration-law-2.html
...By far the most pressing, and embarrassing, item on the List of Races or Peoples in the late 1930s was the term “Hebrew.”
The American Jewish Committee protested the classification of Hebrew as a race as early as 1930, warning that such “inquisition” into religion by the government was “improper and susceptible of unfortunate abuse.”
At that time, the solicitor for the Department of Labor wrote a long memorandum on the legal requirement for including race— and Hebrew as a race— on both immigration and naturalization forms. The department found the American Jewish Committee’s complaint groundless and rejected their request.
In the following years, as Nazi persecution of Jews in Europe increased, dissatisfaction with the presence of Hebrew on the list widened and deepened...
There are numerous examples of black/white celebrities that refuse to acknowledge their caucasian heritage. I'M A MINORITY SO I GET SPECIAL TREATMENT AND CAN SAY ANYTHING I LIKE AGAINST OTHER RACES OR ETHNIC GROUPS. I'M SPECIAL.
Dat be waciss?
Satire or now I think Elizabeth “Fauxcahontas” Warren should be made to pay back the money she scammed... for her lies.
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