Posted by
Gerald R Evans on Saturday, July 04, 2009 1:59:12 AM
Don't get me wrong, I know my history and I know what I'm talking about, so all you leftitsts out there might as well pick up a history text book and start reading. I know about Jim Crow and the Klan, I grew up in the South. I know about MLK and Malcolm X and I know about Barack and Co. I know all about the struggle and trust me, I would have been "down with" it. As a matter of fact I am still "down with" it.
Equality. That is the message that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. preached in his day. Do we all know what equality is or are we just pretending? Equality is when everyone is treated the same no matter what their skin color is, what sex they are, what religion they are, what age they are, or what thier sexual orientation. That is true equality and thankfully the Supreme Court realized this in the Ricci case. I litteraly cheered when I heard that the SCOTUS had overturned Sotomayor and Co.'s decision in this case, you can ask my co-worker; I think I scared him when I yelled out "HELL YESSSSS" in my best Howard Deen impersonation.
I am hopeful that this is the begining of the end of "Race Based Employment" or what we have been calling Equal Opportunity Employment or Affirmative Action. How badly have we skewed equality as a result of these prgrams and worse yet how bad a diservice have we done our fellow man with these porgrams.
I'm not trying to put "African Americans" down by saying this, but how far back have we kept them with EEOC and Affirmative Action and Title VII and other such "racial quotas". College admissions, jobs, etc. How far back are they because some have been given an easier role in life because of these "equality" programs?
I have been heraring the storeis for years now of some "overprivilaedged white youth" not getting into Harvard while some "poor minority" student got in with a lower GPA and SAT score. I have meet pleanty of managers in my various jobs who had to have been Affirmative Action promotions because they couldn't grasp simple management concepts or business concepts well enough to have earned any kind of promotion.
But as I said, I know my history. I know there was a time when a minority worker would have been passed over for a less qualified white or a black sutdent would have been passed over for a less inteligent white. But that is the past. Now I fear that too many of our nation's minority youth have been indoctrinated to think that someone will always be there to give them some sort of assistance in life.
Now with true equaltiy looming, how far behind are our brothers and sisters? How far behind is our nation's minority youth, who are as much the future of the world as thier white counterparts? It's time we start encouraging our minority youth to do what others have never done, been affraid to do, or were not allowed to do. It is time we start telling ALL that they truloy can be what ever it is they wish in life if they just put in the requisit effort to succede. No matter what your sking color there are no boundaires and the Ricci case proves it, more than Barack's eletion ever will.
To all my fellow white conservatives and to all other who stumble across this blog I ask, no I demand that you take a few minutes out of your schedules this fall and volunteer some time with ANY children of ANY race or ANY social standing. Let them know four things: that THEY can succede in life no matter what their race, gender, etc; let them know that as long as America is a captialist country that ANY of them can become "rich" and not just by becoming the next Michale Jordan or Lil' Wayne or Bill Gates or Carlos Mencia; that everyone "deserves" fairness and nothing less: and that with a good EDUCATION and strong amibition ALL can become whatever they wish in life...
Just think, you could inspire the first conservative black president....