While “dialoguing” about race relations in the wake of the election of America’s first biracial president, we hope people will seriously discuss whether race preferences, which typically involve lowering standards for certain racial minorities, are necessary. Voters in California, Michigan, Nebraska, and Washington answered the question with a resounding NO.
According to a CNN poll, 69 percent of blacks believe Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s, dream has been realized, while only 46 percent of whites say the same. Why the discrepancy? On the one hand, these white respondents may believe whites still discriminate against blacks. On the other hand, they may hold the view that, given the continued use of race preferences, the country has not fulfilled King’s dream of people being judged by the content of their character and not the color of their skin.
Race preferences certainly belong in the top ten list of government policies that do not fulfill the dream. If fact, they betray the dream.
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