Here is one black woman I agree with.
Jim Crow Redux
Despite a California law that prohibits sex and skin color preferences in public hiring and admissions, socialist bureaucrats in the Los Angeles Unified School District believe they’re exempt. There is precedent for that belief.
Once upon a time the United States government was in the business of codifying separation of the races in the public sphere. While people of the same race tend to self-segregate socially, it is odious and immoral for the government of a free society to force it.
Then something revolutionary happened. Black American taxpayers decided, en masse, they’d no longer put up with degrading laws that regulated where they could and could not go in a supposedly free country. So they rebelled and refused to shuck and jive. Whether whites were ready or not, life as they knew it changed in a dramatic way. Blacks were granted first class citizenship guaranteed by the greatest document ever created, the U.S. Constitution.
Then something very wrong happened. White, guilt-ridden socialists were appalled that blacks weren’t advancing at the expected pace. After all, during segregation, black teachers taught black children, black businesses served black customers, and the sudden removal of legal barriers required a period of adjustment, but that period was taking too long.
Lacking integrity and the will to live up to the ideals of democracy, they did the only thing they knew how to do: create more skin color-based laws, this time to favor blacks.
America began to create government-sanctioned skin color distinctions in public hiring and admissions, even going so far as to force parents to send their children to schools miles and miles away to achieve a “racial balance.” When shocked white, guilt-ridden socialists discovered that blacks were failing employment tests in disproportionate numbers, they determined that the tests must be racist. Tests were eliminated in some cases, and standards were dropped in most cases. The same happened with college admissions.
The way to help the victimized Negro, whites surmised, was to make life easier for him, the poor thing.
The government permitted discrimination against other races to accommodate the put-upon black race. Giving much and expecting little, the entitlement system was allowed to grow to monstrous proportions. It became normal. Consequently, a new generation of blacks, to which the blog hostess belongs, was born to expect such humiliating, condescending treatment from the government.
Today, despite the illegality and unconstitutionality, skin color-based preferences abound. Too many people benefit from the rigged system, and appealing to fairness, morality, and constitutionality seems, for lack of a better word, futile. The Pacific Legal Foundation is making a valiant effort to fight racial discrimination, but a victory will be only symbolic.
Jump, Jim Crow. We’re waiting to be entertained.
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