You First on Diversity

Pajamas Media ^ | January 13 | Victor Davis Hanson

[AJKauf]

I think in the past month I have read a half-dozen op-eds by white-male, insider journalists pontificating that the Republicans just didn’t get it—that poor old Sarah Palin and the decrepit white guy John McCain were dinosaurs. Hip multiracial Barack Obama was now the wave of the future, and the clueless calcified conservatives better get with the new face of America. It was a plausible enough thesis given demographic trends—if one believes in rigid and fossilized tribal and racial fault lines.

But two observations: why do privileged, entrenched white elites in the NY-DC axis always give soap-box lectures about the beauty of diversity while never (?) stepping aside themselves from their jobs to jump-start the up and coming careers of the other? (For 21 years I watched tenured senior white male professors lecture their departments on affirmative action, then hire by race and gender, and turn away young white male candidates by rote, who usually were far stronger applicants than these diversity prophets ever had been, who were mostly hired by old boy networks in the 1960s and 1970s.)...

[Graybeard58]

Hypocracy of liberalism.

[CaspersGh0sts]

The day I see blacks and Hispanics actually graduating from universities with useful degrees and paying their fair share of their own living expenses/taxes is the day that I’ll accept multi-racial as the new hip. Until then, white and Asian remains the flavor of the day.

Everything else is just a fad with very little substance behind it.

[Jeff Head]

Diversity is divisive.

The enemies foisting this rediculousness on us know this. The useful idiots who are being used by them lap it up.

We stand United...not divided.

America is a land where diverse peoples come to be something better...to find liberty, opportunity, and prosperity by adopting shared values and those common goals, and then being free to exercise themselves within those confines.

IT'S TIME FOR A RETURN TO THE OLD SCHOOL

[Citizen Blade]

The day I see blacks and Hispanics actually graduating from universities with useful degrees and paying their fair share of their own living expenses/taxes is the day that I’ll accept multi-racial as the new hip.

I've seen plenty of blacks and Hispanics graduating from universities with useful degrees and paying their fair share of their own living expenses/taxes. Where do you live where that is not the case?

[CaspersGh0sts]

“I’ve seen plenty of blacks and Hispanics graduating from universities with useful degrees and paying their fair share of their own living expenses/taxes. Where do you live where that is not the case.”

Memphis. Denver. Nashville. Atlanta. Los Angeles. Of these, Atlanta and Denver are probably better than the rest.

I work in a hospital setting. The number of free-loaders in our society is breath-taking. I can’t tell you how many 27-year old women I’ve seen who have never worked a day in their lives and aren’t married—most with multiple kids.

This really isn’t that abnormal. High school graduation rates for those over 25 are as follows:

Hispanics - 51% percent
Blacks - 66%
American Indians/Alaska Natives - 66%
Whites - 81%
Asians/Pacific Islanders - 80%

College Degrees:

Asians - 42.7%
Whites - 30.6%
Blacks - 17.0%
Hispanics - 12.2%