printYou had better hope not.
About the “racial bean counter” that may inherit the earth if Obama does, VDARE.COM’s Matthew Richer writes the following:
“What was most strikingly unique about Assistant Attorney General Deval Patrick’s leadership was the degree to which he used the power of his office to intimidate American citizens into conforming with his vision of civil rights. Patrick knew well that most cities, towns and small businesses cannot afford to defend themselves against a Justice Department lawsuit. All it often took was for Patrick to initiate a Justice Department “probe” of some civil organization, and then he could bend it to his vision of justice.
During his confirmation hearings, of course, Deval Patrick claimed that he did not believe in racial quotas. But once confirmed, Patrick arrogantly began to impose racial preferences in the guise of law enforcement. He was especially opposed to cognitive examinations for prospective police officers and firemen alleging that they result in an unjustly high failure rate for black applicants. Patrick then tried to force municipalities to adopt a Justice…”
The complete column is “Governor Deval Patrick: ‘Together We Can”…Have Racial Preferences.’” Read it!
It’s the typical divide-and-conquer strategy employed by the left. Separate people into groups. Convince them that they have grievances against the “other,” then sit back and watch the conflict simmer.
Lo and behold, the politician has the perfect solution: give him more power and he’ll devise the ideal plan to make it all better. But vote for him first. And send campaign cash too.
It has worked like a charm so far. What could possibly go wrong?
Whatever gets him out of Massachusetts is fine by me.
Immediately came to mind a documentary I saw yesterday on Brazil’s university quota system. It was aired on CBC’s French network. They take pictures of students and a secret committee decides who’s black enough to benefit from the quota system. It does invite some nasty comparisons. Is this something that’s in store for us North Americans ? Time to work on my tan, I guess.
[Where have you been? It’s been going on in the US ever since the late 1970s, as bad a Brazil.–IM]
1. Richer’s essay is basically sound; however, the Boston school committee was judged guilty of gerrymandering-busing to achieve segregation and then had to bus to integrate. Leave it to Government to screw it up in two different ways!
2. Concerning law enforcement and security officers – we saw how well the police did in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina. I see incompetents in “security” who don’t know their own security regulations and/or often cannot speak English – rather pathetic.
3. Actually at Dulles Airport 2 months before 9/11, ALL the security line people looked like fundamentalist Moslems from the same village in Uzbekistan. This country didn’t even think to use American citizens.
4, Unfortunately, McCain is about the same as Obama on affirmative action and immigration.
5. After 8 years of Bush and his cronies, it is hard for “conservatives” to mount a decent attack on the abuses of affirmative action. Look at Gonzales, Miers, Goodling, Yoo, and the other schnooks at the so-called Justice Department.
I guess this is too depressing a topic.
My consolation is life is not fair but God is good.