The legacy of racism, and particularly the dehumanizing oppression of generations of blacks, is a terrible blot on our history. If we try to remedy it by maintaining a new system of racial spoils—not at the expense of affluent, well-educated white elites, but of working-class, disadvantaged people who happen to be white—the blot will only deepen.
Why is it more acceptable if a racial spoils system comes at the expense of "affluent, well-educated white elites"?
The reason they are elites is, in many cases, because they have educated themselves and worked hard to become experts in their professions.
This is pernicious Marxist class envy.
Affirmative Action: Poisoning the future to correct the past.
My “over-represented” Asian daughters learned a bit about the new system of racial spoils in college. Their Mom’s an immmigrant, and one of the girls was even born overseas, but they’re ineligible for the acceptance boosts and tuition reductions that many other racially-denoted subgroups freely receive. Japanese business types were “honorary whites” in apartheid South Africa; Asians are often unwillingly classified as “minority, but undeserving of free stuff” in American government and academia.
And Latina Sotomayor is certainly showing some more true colors, isn’t she, if she truly believes that any written test “is always going to put a certain group at the bottom of the pass rate so they’re never ever going to be promoted.”
Not me, she didn't express this part that well.
"The legacy of racism, and particularly the dehumanizing oppression of generations of blacks, is a terrible blot on our history. If we try to remedy it by maintaining a new system of racial spoils—not at the expense of affluent, well-educated white elites, but of working-class, disadvantaged people who happen to be white—the blot will only deepen."
Think of the William Ayers and John Kerry types, kids of privilege and no good accomplishments.
Why is it more acceptable if a racial spoils system comes at the expense of "affluent, well-educated white elites"?
She was using it to draw a distinction in trying to show how evil reverse discrimination now is against middle and working class whites that were never able to profit from their station in life.
The reason they are elites is, in many cases, because they have educated themselves and worked hard to become experts in their professions.
Bill Ayers, John Kerry and the Kennedy clan?
This is pernicious Marxist class envy.
I doubt it. The author grew up in the Soviet Union. Put yourself in the shoes of someone that's a white male from humble origins who is discriminated against and mocked without rest or mercy. They just want a fair chance. Don't you want it based on merit?
Welcome to Obama's Amerika.