He basically disapproved of this method of fighting affirmitive action as it would rise tensions between peoples. I can see his point but also the student had his points, too.
To tell you the truth, I wasn't paying to much attention because I was waiting to hear from Mel Gibson on ABC's Dateline.
Sean is a nice guy. He is well meaning. He loves his country. But he is naive on these kinds of questions--as note some of his statements on immigration.
The only reason that a private race oriented scholarship would raise tensions, while taxing some of the people to give other people just such a scholarship is not supposed to, is only because of the widespread acceptance of certain Leftist premises. If the Left had not stripped certain minorities of their self-respect, this would not raise tensions at all. Booker T. Washington would have had no problem with it; but then, again, he was all about self-reliance, self-improvement, and self-respect--just like those White men, we call the "Founding Fathers."
We need to challenge the Left, not retreat because of the poisonous climate they have deliberately created, as a form of self-fulfilling prophesy--or better put, self-perpetuating evil.
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