Posted on 07/23/2010 9:27:40 PM PDT by PROCON
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Virginia Sen. Jim Webb called for ending government-run diversity programs in a newspaper column Friday, saying they have disadvantaged struggling whites and hurt the cause of racial harmony. Webb wrote an op-ed column in Friday's Wall Street Journal that said a "plethora of government-enforced diversity policies have marginalized many white workers. The time has come to cease the false arguments and allow every American the benefit of a fair chance at the future."
Webb's press secretary, Jessica Smith, said Friday that the senator felt the column speaks for itself and that he would not comment further.
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Yes.
The other day I sent him and Mark Warner e-mails asking if they had actually READ the Bill befrore voting in favor of it. I requested a simple yes or no answer. I am awaiting their responses.
When I did the exact same thing after they both voted for "Obamacare" I received no response from Webb. From Warner I received a long-winded, "canned" treatise explaining how all the revisions the democrats were preparing to pass would take care of any and all problems associated with the bill. He also told me what a fantastic piece of legislation it was to start with.
But he didn't ansewer my question...
Immigrants from Asia, Latin America and Africa in recent decades knew no such discrimination from the government, he wrote...
Such programs should end, Webb concluded, except for "our continuing obligation to assist those African-Americans still in need."
The fact is, an actual African-American (an American who emigrated here from Africa) also would NOT have known "such discrimination from the government".
This pronouncement is just another political smoke-screen thrown up by one of Virginia's pretentious, condescending, hypocritical U.S. senators.
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