printThe excerpt is from my new VDARE.COM column:
“Ask John McCain to free associate and in response to “illegal aliens” he’ll blurt ‘God’s children,’ and vice versa. This apparently irresistible combination surfaced again in his convention address: ‘Everyone has something to contribute and deserves the opportunity to reach their God-given potential,’ McCain bleated. ‘[F]rom the boy whose descendents [sic] arrived on the Mayflower to the [likely illegal] Latina daughter of migrant workers. We’re all God’s children and we’re all Americans.'”
God, no doubt, moves in mysterious ways. But McCain needs to be reminded that the boy whose forefathers settled the country he professes to love has not been in the good graces of government for quite some time. The Latina daughter of illegal migrants is another matter entirely. She’s benefiting big time—at least at a top government school like the University of California…”
The complete column is “UCLA Bureaucrats Subvert Anti-Quota Law. But Where Is GOP?.” Read it on VDARE.COM.
So the key to getting into UCLA is to ‘ethnic up’ your entrance essay. Throw a little ebonics in there or mention how your fondest childhood memories center around making tamales with your mom at Christmastime. I almost wish I was entering college again so I could pull this on them and laugh my tukus off.
(1) The California government also sabotaged Proposition 187 by refusing to appeal the ruling that denial of benefits to trespassers (illegals) violated federal law! The federal government made NO such complaint although McBama and O’Cain probably would!
(2) If UCLA were a PRIVATE “prestigious” university, its policies of selecting inferior students at the expense of superior ones would be its own mishugas (crazy stupidity – appropriate for U. of Mich.) (3) In theory, “holistic” or “comprehensive” accounting for being poor or from a lousy school or a single parent might be worth 0.1 to 0.5 standard deviations but not multiple standard deviations of difference (4) As you mention in the Sander study, many black “beneficiaries” of this compassion either (a) flunk out or (b) get shuffled into the Black Studies Ghetto of oblivion (5) The white/Asians “victims” who go instead to UC Irvine do fine and enrich their schools (6) Affirmative Action is just one symptom of the “illiberal” faddish rot affecting American education (7) The long run beneficiaries of this rot will be Asian universities at the expense of American ones.
Yes, McCain, indeed we are all God’s children, yes, but we most definitely are not all Americans, and being the former has no necessary connection with the latter! Being an American is NOT about possessing some abstract “democratic” state of mind or merely being within the geographical united States (unless you have alleged connections to Al-Qaeda, of course); neither is it some pristine ideology to be militarily dispersed around our world. Oh, the evils of nationalism.