Outrage. The media offensive to end all media offensives. Demonstrations. Riots.
What would be the complaint? That it's unfair to Blacks to offer such treatment to anyone else, or what? Certainly I don't think they'd want to express outrage in any manner that might hint that the program would perpetuate "dumb blond" perceptions.
mrustow: Outrage. The media offensive to end all media offensives. Demonstrations. Riots.
supercat: What would be the complaint? That it's unfair to Blacks to offer such treatment to anyone else, or what? Certainly I don't think they'd want to express outrage in any manner that might hint that the program would perpetuate "dumb blond" perceptions.
mrustow: Your mistake is in assuming that blacks would approach the matter the way whites do. When whites protest anything to do with race or ethnicity, they worry themselves to death about whether they might be perceived to be spreading bigoted perceptions, and then protest in such a muffled, defensive, apologetic, self-castrating manner, as to abort their own opposition.
Blacks, on the other hand, take the offensive, and do not for one moment worry about whether they could be perceived as spreading bigoted perceptions. They know that as blacks, by definition, they cannot be guilty of racism. If white folks see things otherwise, that's just their "perception." But if blacks see racism, that's their PERCEPTION. (In case you think I'm making this up or exaggerating, I had a black female boss in the late 1980s, who used the same word -- "perception" to mean opposite things, depending on the race of the user. And the "cannot by definition be racist" stuff has been written to death since the 1980s.)
I've never met a black who saw any contradiction in the notion that the 14th Amendment justified preferential treatment for blacks.