September 2009

Race, Race, Race

September 8, 2009

Let’s just lay it on the line and make it official. Because differences exist between the races, race will always “matter.” This article in Insider Higher Ed is just one more straw on the camel’s back. Michelle Asha Cooper and David A. Longanecker work for education organizations. They, like typical left-leaning types, believe all people [...]

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Roger Clegg on ‘Minority’ Contracting

September 4, 2009

I like following the Center for Equal Opportunity‘s Roger Clegg around the web. A recent comment lands on a Dallas News blog post titled, “Gap Rap: The future of minority contracting.” The blogger mentions “pressure” on investors and contractors that do business with the government to give business to black- and Hispanic-owned companies in Dallas. He believes [...]

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Skin Deep-Only Diversity

September 3, 2009

Young Brian J. Bolduc of Harvard University gets to the crux of a complaint against leftist America’s odd obsession with diversity: it’s only skin deep. Why not discriminate against left-leaning students to admit more right-leaning students for political diversity? Why not discriminate against atheists and agnostics to admit more Christians for religious diversity? Or Muslims? [...]

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Update on Macon Consent Decree

September 2, 2009

Last month I blogged about the city of Macon’s (Georgia) quest to lift a judicial consent decree, where the city was ordered to hire and promote based on race. In 1976, black officers and firefighters claimed racial discrimination, and a federal court ordered the city to use quotas to hire minorities. In 2000, white police [...]

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Westchester County’s Racial Albatross

September 1, 2009

This article helps me make the case that “Poverty” is a state of mind that can not be undone by government mandate. The commenter on this article hits the proverbial nail on the head. A little background: Under a desegregation agreement, New York’s Westchester County will be compelled to create “low income” (euphemistically referred to as affordable) [...]

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