23rd June 2003, 4:39 PM
...that in a society as advanced as ours, we still practice racism, under the assumed title of "minority advancement". The Supreme Court upheld the Affirmative Action constitutionality in the Michigan University case, which is a very disappointing statement of how some radicals can further drive a wedge between races just to further their own agendas. In the erroneous name of progress we just stepped backwards a few steps. Thanks a lot, guys.
On a brighter note, it wasn't a total loss of sanity for our Justices, as they did defeat the AA practices of Michigan University's undergraduate program, which will hopefully one day lead to it's eventual elimination altogether.
It can probably be said that racial equality will never be achieved by governmental policies, but by the eventual tolerance of successive generations. Our generation is more racially tolerant than any before. It should go without saying that our children will hopefully continue that trend, and that we can become a truly color-blind nation without the interference of self-serving liberal interests. Only time will tell, but I think, and hope, that's how it happens.
Unfortunately in the short term, the liberal mobs continue to spread messages to minorities that they cannot succeed without liberal help, that only by having special advantages will they ever achieve anything. Of course, few people realize what long-term damage that thinking will cause (and has been causing for years, so we continue to promote state-sponsered racism, a sort of watered-down reversal of Jim Crow. And that's to say nothing of the degradation of the black people, who by way of affirmative action are being told that they cannot be successes without help, that they are incapable of doing it themselves. It's this sort of short-sightedness by liberals that have racial tensions still brewing after all these years.
The funny thing is, I know that during the course of the argument that will inevitably follow this post, I will be called, if not in name then in spirit, a racist, bigoted right-wing neo-Hitler, but it's the cry of people who are exactly what they call people like me. I don't advocate racism or inequality. I simply do not believe that you can eliminate inequality by creating more inequality. It's a stupid in theory and stupid in application.
Therefore, I look at the Supreme Court decision with mixed feelings. I hope that it's a step in the right direction, which is the eventual disintegration of AA policies, even though the Court unwisely upheld some of those policies. That they did not uphold them all is definitely a good sign though.
On a brighter note, it wasn't a total loss of sanity for our Justices, as they did defeat the AA practices of Michigan University's undergraduate program, which will hopefully one day lead to it's eventual elimination altogether.
It can probably be said that racial equality will never be achieved by governmental policies, but by the eventual tolerance of successive generations. Our generation is more racially tolerant than any before. It should go without saying that our children will hopefully continue that trend, and that we can become a truly color-blind nation without the interference of self-serving liberal interests. Only time will tell, but I think, and hope, that's how it happens.
Unfortunately in the short term, the liberal mobs continue to spread messages to minorities that they cannot succeed without liberal help, that only by having special advantages will they ever achieve anything. Of course, few people realize what long-term damage that thinking will cause (and has been causing for years, so we continue to promote state-sponsered racism, a sort of watered-down reversal of Jim Crow. And that's to say nothing of the degradation of the black people, who by way of affirmative action are being told that they cannot be successes without help, that they are incapable of doing it themselves. It's this sort of short-sightedness by liberals that have racial tensions still brewing after all these years.
The funny thing is, I know that during the course of the argument that will inevitably follow this post, I will be called, if not in name then in spirit, a racist, bigoted right-wing neo-Hitler, but it's the cry of people who are exactly what they call people like me. I don't advocate racism or inequality. I simply do not believe that you can eliminate inequality by creating more inequality. It's a stupid in theory and stupid in application.
Therefore, I look at the Supreme Court decision with mixed feelings. I hope that it's a step in the right direction, which is the eventual disintegration of AA policies, even though the Court unwisely upheld some of those policies. That they did not uphold them all is definitely a good sign though.
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