I am now just an aging boomer who is now retired, so maybe my mind is slipping a bit, but I have always heard that "diversity is a strength" "diversity is a core value" etc., etc., etc.
Diversity in everything except for thought....
But in all the compliance training sessions I've had to endure during my 40+ years of work, nobody has explained to be what makes it so "compelling and substantial".
Don't get me wrong, I have no problem if the most qualified person is another skin color than me, comes from a different part of the world than me, has different reproductive organs than me, etc.
But equality has never been the objective.
Some nebulous quality of "equity" (where either the outcome is the same, or, if different, I come out on the losing end)...and nobody's ever been able to explain how that is beneficial. Maybe I slept through that part of the annual compliance brainwashing session each and every year.
The law? The Constitution? Who cares? Judges rule these days based upon their feelings. Especially affirmative-action judges like this one. After all, how do you think she got her gig?
Fighting racism with racism only perpetuates it. The racism of preferences is as flawed as the racism of slavery.
Just once, I wish one “non-black” smartass would claim he was black just to see what they would do. And take it all the way to the top.
At some point, the very thing these people do is the opposite of what they want to see happen. The flaw is - one must “see” to know what color someone appears to be. Everyone sees things differently.
Tiger Woods is an example - he’s half Thai - why is he claimed to be “black”?
“Seventy years after the first Black students were admitted to U.N.C., the minority students at the university still report being confronted with racial epithets, as well as feeling isolated, ostracized, stereotyped and viewed as tokens,”
Poor blackie. Always picked on. /s
But Briggs disagreed with the argument, saying that the school’s policy was narrowly constitutional because it served a “compelling and substantial interest in pursuing and attaining the educational benefits of diversity.”
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It’s ok to be racist for a good reason. Got it.
More communism at work.
So pictures are required when submitting a college application these days? Because that’s really the only way college admissions personnel would know if someone was black, other than if their name was Shaneequa or D’Antoine.