Tuesday, July 27, 2010
The "Conversation About Race"
who’s a coward?
Forty years ago, as the United States experienced the civil rights movement, the supposed monolith of White Anglo-Saxon Protestant dominance served as the whipping post for almost every debate about power and status in America. After a full generation of such debate, WASP elites have fallen by the wayside and 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.
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Unfortunately, present-day diversity programs work against [bringing fairness to America’s economic system and to our work force], having expanded so far beyond their original purpose that they now favor anyone who does not happen to be white.
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At the height of slavery, in 1860, less than 5% of whites in the South owned slaves… Of the South’s 1.8 million sharecroppers, 1.2 million were white… ...in advancing minority diversity programs, [policy makers] treated whites as a fungible monolith. ...
...Nondiscrimination laws should be applied equally among all citizens, including those who happen to be white.
Webb does a good job pointing out that “managing” a work force by race is about as successful as “managing” an economy: everybody loses, including the whole. This was in the WSJ, last Thurs. [7/22]. Where are the howls of derision/support, the cries of “raaaacist?” Where’s the freakin’ “Conversation”?!?
It might appear that *some* are cowards.
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