With so much going on, with the mud slinging going on as primary elections wind down and the winners take aim at one another for the election of 2010 come November, not to mention coverage of other high profile "news" like the "BP Gusher in the Gulf," I wonder if the little press a LIBERAL call to end affirmative action programs is simply a bi-product of too much going on or are Conservatives/News Organizations consider this news most don't want you to hear about. Not now, not ever?
To quote, in part Senator Jim Webb, a DEMOCRAT from Virginia, in a month old Wall Street Journal editorial:
"Present-day diversity programs work against that notion, having expanded so far beyond their original purpose that they now favor anyone who does not happen to be white.
In an odd historical twist that all Americans see but few can understand, many programs allow recently arrived immigrants to move ahead of similarly situated whites whose families have been in the country for generations. These programs have damaged racial harmony. And the more they have grown, the less they have actually helped African-Americans, the intended beneficiaries of affirmative action as it was originally conceived."
AHow So - A "bit" of History
Again, Quoting Senator Webb
"Contrary to assumptions in the law, white America is hardly a monolith. And the journey of white American cultures is so diverse (yes) that one strains to find the logic that could lump them together for the purpose of public policy. The clearest example of today's misguided policies comes from examining the history of the American South. The old South was a three-tiered society, with blacks and hard-put whites both dominated by white elites who manipulated racial tensions in order to retain power. At the height of slavery, in 1860, less than 5% of whites in the South owned slaves. The eminent black historian John Hope Franklin wrote that "fully three-fourths of the white people in the South had neither slaves nor an immediate economic interest in the maintenance of slavery."
Now 'tis your time to ponder a while. What are your thoughts on this very "hot" story that appears to have all but disappeared (or buried by design)?
Click HERE to continue "an education" courtesy of Senator Webb and please come back and share your thoughts.
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