It's almost like some sort of Shakespearean comedy seeing White republicans spout off about "color blindness" while cheerleading minorities who are none to shy about the importance race is to them as individuals and in their day-to-day lives.
It makes one wonder whether it is cowardice or stupidity that motivates them more.
Such as Rush Limbaugh, speaking of Supreme Court nominee judge Sonia Sotomayor, saying, "So here you have a racist....You might want to soften that and you might want to say a reverse racist.."
And why might you want to do that?
And why would a free market capitalist like Limbaugh indulge in using a word ("racist") which was first used by communist mass murder Leon Trotsky to describe the White gentiles who were resisting being mass murdered by the likes of (the jewish) Trotsky?
Perhaps it's fear. Perhaps it's just successful programing.
It shows up most comically in this article by Ann Coulter.
She writes,
For example, Judge Sotomayor apparently "empathized" more with New Haven, Conn., government officials than with white and Hispanic firefighters who were denied promotions by the city on the basis of their race.
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In the now-famous firefighters' case, Ricci v. DeStefano, the New Haven Fire Department administered a civil service exam to choose a new batch of lieutenants and captains. The city went so far as to hire an outside consultant to design the test in order to ensure that it was job-related and not racially biased. (You know, just like all written tests were pre-screened for racial bias back when we were in school.)
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But when the results came in, only whites and Hispanics scored high enough to earn promotions.
Actually, (apparently) only one hispanic passed the test.
Coulter attempts to play this up as a conflict between the city of New Haven and White and hispanics. (I emphasized the and because Ms. Coulter is apparently ignorant of the fact that hispanic is not a race and that many hispanics are in fact White)
But the interesting thing about New Haven that Ms. Coulter conveniently sidesteps is its demographics....
Races in New Haven:
- Black (37.4%)
- White Non-Hispanic (35.6%)
- Hispanic (21.4%)
- Other race (10.9%)
- Two or more races (3.9%)
- Chinese (1.4%)
- American Indian (1.2%)
- Other Asian (0.8%)
- Asian Indian (0.7%)
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And as White Non-Hispanic can include jews, Arabs, Turks, Iranians, Egyptians and host of other peoples, the actual percentage of Whites in that (very Leftist) city is probably around 12 to 15%.
That reality makes her following attempt at covering for the fact that, even though blacks are the dominant racial group in the city, no black (and apparently only one hispanic) could pass a test that was specifically dumbed down to ensure that they could, all the more ridiculous.
Such results never entice Democrats to reconsider their undying devotion to the teachers' unions that routinely produce students who can't read, write or do basic math. Obviously, disadvantaged children from single-parent homes suffer the most from inadequate public schools – and their tragic outcome bedevils the entire society for the rest of the students' lives.
Where in the hell did single-parent homes come from?
She beleaguers that typical leftist non-sense again, writing,
Instead, Democrats hide the failure of government schools by punishing the high-scoring whites, Asians and Hispanics, who presumably learned everything they know at home. (If only successfully applying a condom were relevant to firefighting, public school graduates raised in single-parent homes would crush the home-learners!)
Again, from where in that case does the presumption that blacks failed the test because they were raised in single parent homes come from?
Nowhere. That's where.
That's just the White conservative way of cowardly moving the issue away from IQ gaps between the races.
And, by the way, hispanics are not "high scoring".
To be sure, there is "precedent" for racial discrimination by the government, but Plessy v. Ferguson was overturned in 1954 by Brown v. Board of Education.
Yet she bemoans what the government school system has turned into over the past 55 years.
And Brown v. Board of Education was about the advocacy for government interference in schools, not lack of it. THAT WAS THE PRECEDENT!
It ended Freedom of Association in this nation by dictacting to the people what environment they could educate their children in.
She finishes up with the same line of pointless thought that The American Spectator indulges in as she writes,
After aggressively blocking Estrada's nomination to a federal appeals court during Bush's first term solely on the grounds that he is Hispanic and was likely headed for the Supreme Court – according to Senate Democrat staff memos – now Democrats have the audacity to rave that Sotomayor will be the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice!
Ironic, is it not, that conservatives are bringing up the (compassionate conservative) Bush era Estrada nomination since it only serves to illustrate that no matter how much the (Amnesty pushing, Obama-win celebrating) GOP sells out White people and kisses non-White ass, the non-Whites continue to tell them to go to hell.
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