Tuesday - September 27, 2011

golly, he can’t be serious??

We’re in the era of Herman Cain, people, not Maxine Waters, Jesse Jackson, the stultifying Travis Smiley, or that man who has put a generation of Harvard and Princeton students into perpetual narcoleptic sleep — Dr. Cornel West.

And while we’re at it, all other caucuses based on race, religion, creed, or national origin should be put out to pasture along with it. Such groupings are so reactionary and self-destructive they make your eyes roll back in your head, collide with each other, and shoot out again like pinballs, destroying half your brain from the cerebellum to the medulla oblongata in the process. They divide us and help no one. They have no justification any more, if they ever did.

Racism is dead. Or as dead as it’s ever going to be.

Yes, I understand these things happen. I cringed when Bernard Madoff, a fellow Jew, was accused and then convicted of heinous crimes. But I shouldn’t have. And Obama — no criminal — is light years from Madoff.

The time has come to get beyond such identifications. Not only are they specious, they reinforce stereotypes that too often become self-fulfilling prophecies. They define us in ways we cannot even understand, let alone easily escape from. They warp our unconscious.

In that way, affirmative action may have hurt more people than it helped, lowering that most crucial of all “liberal” pieties, self-esteem. In any case, like the Black Caucus itself, it is outdated now.

Roger L. Simon in PajamasMedia

Good comments there too ... more than 20 of them before somebody brings in Hitler. Most of them would agree that you can join any group you want, but our taxes shouldn’t go to support it. And eventually a few of them bring up the obvious - notions that were obvious to most of us 25 years ago in college when we saw the Student Unions break into Black Student Union, Jewish Student Union, Women’s Student Union, et al, but never a White Student Union or a Men’s Student Union:

Oh, so you want to actually SEE? Ok, check today’s headlines for RACIST BAKE SALE, where a group of college Republicans is pulling out the hoary old chestnut - in use for 40 years now - of a fund raising bake sale that has pro-diversity pricing (minorities and special people pay less). RAAAAACISST!!!  This old canard works every year, without fail. The left never sees how stupid it makes them look, and they never get wise to the fact it’s been done so many times before.

An open plaza at the University of California Berkeley will be an epicenter Tuesday in the debate over affirmative action and college admissions.

On one side, Berkeley College Republicans will host their “Increase Diversity Bake Sale”—a satirical event that will charge customers different prices based on race and gender.

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At Bucknell University in Pennsylvania, officials shut down a similar bake sale on campus. Officials at The College of William and Mary in Virginia cut off a cookie sale, saying they were “shocked and appalled.”

The University of California, Irvine, shut down a bake sale on campus, saying it was discriminatory. And a bake sale at Southern Methodist University in Texas was shut down after 45 minutes because of what officials called an “unsafe environment,” according to local reports.

Do you really want to get beyond race? Me too. Let’s not only stop collecting racial data at all levels of government, academia, and business, let’s throw away all the data that they have, and remove those columns from the database tables. Do the same for gender as well. And toss out every last law of any kind that mentions race or gender. Because it’s abhorrent that such things are even at the level of awareness, much less that they have any kind of legal merit. That way there will be no more discrimination based on either, and all of us will be equal as we should be. Of course, that means an end to every last “boot strap” Affirmative Action program, every last Hate Crime law, and every last Minority Incentive program everywhere. True equal rights. Oh, and we’d have to send all the race hustlers to some desert island somewhere in the remote southern oceans. Chatham Island ought to do it, 500 miles east of New Zealand. I’m sure the Maoris will welcome them. 

Posted by Drew458     on 09/27/2011 at 12:20 PM   
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