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.
I'm afraid you're absolutely right about this. I had a debate today with a woman who claimed to be a black conservative. She cited has one of the reasons for the multitude of ills in today's black community was the fact that the collective pain and anguish of the black community over slavery had not been acknowledged by suitable therapeutic solutions. One of the most important solutions, according to her, is the establishment of racial preferences in affirmative action. She was absolutely un self-conscious as she advocated unconstitutional and illegal discrimination against whites and Asians.
I am a black man and counter this attitude over and over and over and over again amongst black people that I speak to about this subject. The sort of racial identity politics that the race industry merchants and multicultural white liberals have nurtured has borne bitter fruit almost much of today's middle-class black population. We have a lot of work to do to bring much of the black community back to a principled understanding of the rights guaranteed by the United States Constitution.