Posted on 05/29/2008 4:59:32 AM PDT by wyowolf
Years ago, when Jack Greenberg left the NAACP Legal Defense Fund to become a professor at Columbia University, he announced that he was going to make it a point to hire a black secretary at Columbia. This would, of course, make whomever he hired be seen as a token black, rather than as someone selected on the basis of competence. This reminded me of the first time I went to Milton Friedman's office when I was a graduate student at the University of Chicago back in 1960, and I noticed that he had a black secretary. This was four years before the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and there was no such thing as affirmative action.
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This one will leave a mark.
spot on too.
It so happened that Milton Friedman had another black secretary decades later, at the Hoover Institution — and she was respected as one of the best secretaries around.
Sowell says in his article that at no time did Friedman refer to his secretary as a “black” secretary. My point is as long as we refer to someone as the “first black senator from...” or the “first African-American who...” we are still focused on race and not accomplishments.
The problem with being a mascot is that you are a symbol of someone else’s significance or virtue. The actual well-being of a mascot is not the point.
from the article.
I wish Dr Sowell would ticket with Dr Williams and run for the Whitehouse.
hell i would be happy if he served as some cabinate post... it would be nice to see someone who understands economics running things for a change..
I wonder if he talking about a certain married couple as mascots that have been in the news lately?
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