True racial equality as unpopular today as yesterday
Several years ago, my wife and I were exiting a local food bank at which I volunteered. We saw two young women handing out flyers for road-renovation positions that were open to job seekers.
I had a part-time evening job, but was interested in supplementing my income. I asked one woman for a flyer.
She looked horrified and clutched a sheaf to her chest. "Oh, you can't!," she exclaimed. "These jobs are just for women and people of color!"
That instance of prejudice is minor compared to others' terrible experiences. And I've no interest in entering some sort of Victimhood Competition to find the direst instance.
But what my story has in common with others is the belief that judging individuals by skin tone is morally acceptable. Of course, it never is.
The withholding from me of an employment opportunity because of 'undesirable' coloration is no less unfair and foul than an old "No Blacks allowed" sign.
Plantation owners of the long-distant past rationalized depersonalization and segregation. So did those who later stormed against Civil Rights Acts.
Guilty white liberals cobbled 'justifications' for explicitly discriminatory employment set-aside programs. And also social assistance ones that ultimately split fathers from families, and resulted in dependence on government checks as generational bondage.
In their own reprehensible manner, those liberals were injurious to both individuals and the larger society. Their appalling, paternalistic faith was that blacks were lesser and unable to survive and succeed without their condescending beneficence.
The man who believes no one should enjoy advantages or suffer disqualifications because of skin color truly believes in equality.
His liberal counterpart declares mythical "white privilege" to be genuine, advocates racial preferences until the "playing field" is level, and cheers racially selective educational opportunities and campus resegregation.
That liberal, fast being replaced in the Democrat Party by radicals even more obsessed with race, does not believe in equality at all. He only pretends to.
"The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race."
- Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, in the majority opinion of Seattle School District case (June 28, 2007)
Several years ago, my wife and I were exiting a local food bank at which I volunteered. We saw two young women handing out flyers for road-renovation positions that were open to job seekers.
I had a part-time evening job, but was interested in supplementing my income. I asked one woman for a flyer.
She looked horrified and clutched a sheaf to her chest. "Oh, you can't!," she exclaimed. "These jobs are just for women and people of color!"
That instance of prejudice is minor compared to others' terrible experiences. And I've no interest in entering some sort of Victimhood Competition to find the direst instance.
But what my story has in common with others is the belief that judging individuals by skin tone is morally acceptable. Of course, it never is.
The withholding from me of an employment opportunity because of 'undesirable' coloration is no less unfair and foul than an old "No Blacks allowed" sign.
Plantation owners of the long-distant past rationalized depersonalization and segregation. So did those who later stormed against Civil Rights Acts.
Guilty white liberals cobbled 'justifications' for explicitly discriminatory employment set-aside programs. And also social assistance ones that ultimately split fathers from families, and resulted in dependence on government checks as generational bondage.
In their own reprehensible manner, those liberals were injurious to both individuals and the larger society. Their appalling, paternalistic faith was that blacks were lesser and unable to survive and succeed without their condescending beneficence.
The man who believes no one should enjoy advantages or suffer disqualifications because of skin color truly believes in equality.
His liberal counterpart declares mythical "white privilege" to be genuine, advocates racial preferences until the "playing field" is level, and cheers racially selective educational opportunities and campus resegregation.
That liberal, fast being replaced in the Democrat Party by radicals even more obsessed with race, does not believe in equality at all. He only pretends to.
"The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race."
- Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, in the majority opinion of Seattle School District case (June 28, 2007)
posted by DC Larson at
May 02, 2019
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