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Affirmative Action The left is brilliant at using words. Because of
their willing accomplices in the mainstream media, the liberal view of
almost every issue is crystallized using their terms of the debate.
Essential American ideals, freedom, equal justice under law, individual
rights, have been trampled upon (using the cover of nice-sounding terms).
All poisonous schemes liberals have foisted upon American for decades have
been hidden under sweet names: social justice, fairness, compassion, the
common good, progressivism, diversity, tolerance, affirmative action. Who
could oppose any thing so positive, so wonderful, so loving, so kind?
Anyone who dares oppose the left's programs are deemed mean spirited,
racist, sexist, homophobic, oppressive, McCarthyite, fascist, extremist,
yada, yada, yada. Liberals have not counted on two things. First,
ordinary people do not participate in liberalism's required denial of
reality: they see for themselves in their own cities, communities,
schools, businesses, the terrible real life consequences of liberal ideas.
Second, just because liberals have for years been able to stifle any
substantive debate on these issues with name-calling and intimidation,
they have not stamped out the vast opposition. Although they've tried.
And they are still trying, as we will continue to see as the debate over
affirmative action heats up. Listen to Willie Brown, former California
Assembly Speaker: "Those who operate on the theory, in this environment,
that there is something tragically wrong with the remedy called
affirmative action, and that it needs to be corrected, they're wrong and
they come from the perspective of a racist." Thirty years ago, before
the media bestowed upon liberals alone the moral authority to discuss
civil rights issues, conditions were radically different than they are
today. If you were a member of a racial minority, you did not have access
to certain jobs, you were not permitted to shop or go to the movies in
certain places, and in many ways you could not lead a normal life. All
because you were a different color. It was vile, and it flew in the face
of the American ideal. Now thirty years later there is an initiative
called the called the California Civil Rights Initiative. This was
proposed by two San Francisco professors, it reads as follows: "Neither
the State of California nor any of its political subdivisions or agents
shall use race, sex, color, ethnicity or national origin as a criterion
for either discriminating against, or granting preferential treatment to,
any individual or group on the operation of the State's system of public
employment, public education or public contracting." I wonder ... who
will oppose that? Could we say it would be the bigots? By any definition
of the word, I think we can. The media and the democratic party
are appalled at the instant popularity of this initiative, of which over
60 percent of California voters approve, according to a recent field poll.
A significant number of those who supposedly benefit from the
preferential policies back the measure. Nearly 60 percent of women and
about 40 percent of blacks, Hispanics, and Asians. When asked about
affirmative action in general, California voters oppose the concept by a
2-1 ratio. "The elimination of affirmative action ... would be a
catastrophe for American women," says Katherine Spillar, national
coordinator of the Feminist Majority Foundation. Though Ms. Spillar does
not speak for most women, nor does she justify her belief that affirmative
action is "right," she declares: "Women will not quickly accept a
rollback in our rights." The Congressional Black Caucus has formed a task
force to fight efforts to overhaul affirmative action laws. Says Rep.
Donald M. Payne (D, NJ), Chairman of the caucus: "We are going to be a
truth squad to interpret correctly what affirmative action is and what the
goals have been." Let us look at what affirmative action is. Sen. Bill
Bradley (D, NJ) claims: "The issue has been distorted that affirmative
action to many means reverse discrimination and preferences, which is
clearly not what affirmative action is. That's what Quotas are." You
have got it exactly wrong senator. Like most liberals, you believe that
an innocent sounding name for a policy equals an innocent policy. But in
real life, in the real world, senator, affirmative action means reverse
discrimination and preferences. Affirmative action means quotas.
Affirmative action is institutional racism, and it's time to end it.
Affirmative Action The left is brilliant at using words. Because of
their willing accomplices in the mainstream media, the liberal view of
almost every issue is crystallized using their terms of the debate.
Essential American ideals, freedom, equal justice under law, individual
rights, have been trampled upon (using the cover of nice-sounding terms).
All poisonous schemes liberals have foisted upon American for decades have
been hidden under sweet names: social justice, fairness, compassion, the
common good, progressivism, diversity, tolerance, affirmative action. Who
could oppose any thing so positive, so wonderful, so loving, so kind?
Anyone who dares oppose the left's programs are deemed mean spirited,
racist, sexist, homophobic, oppressive, McCarthyite, fascist, extremist,
yada, yada, yada. Liberals have not counted on two things. First,
ordinary people do not participate in liberalism's required denial of
reality: they see for themselves in their own cities, communities,
schools, businesses, the terrible real life consequences of liberal ideas.
Second, just because liberals have for years been able to stifle any
substantive debate on these issues with name-calling and intimidation,
they have not stamped out the vast opposition. Although they've tried.
And they are still trying, as we will continue to see as the debate over
affirmative action heats up. Listen to Willie Brown, former California
Assembly Speaker: "Those who operate on the theory, in this environment,
that there is something tragically wrong with the remedy called
affirmative action, and that it needs to be corrected, they're wrong and
they come from the perspective of a racist." Thirty years ago, before
the media bestowed upon liberals alone the moral authority to discuss
civil rights issues, conditions were radically different than they are
today. If you were a member of a racial minority, you did not have access
to certain jobs, you were not permitted to shop or go to the movies in
certain places, and in many ways you could not lead a normal life. All
because you were a different color. It was vile, and it flew in the face
of the American ideal. Now thirty years later there is an initiative
called the called the California Civil Rights Initiative. This was
proposed by two San Francisco professors, it reads as follows: "Neither
the State of California nor any of its political subdivisions or agents
shall use race, sex, color, ethnicity or national origin as a criterion
for either discriminating against, or granting preferential treatment to,
any individual or group on the operation of the State's system of public
employment, public education or public contracting." I wonder ... who
will oppose that? Could we say it would be the bigots? By any definition
of the word, I think we can. The media and the democratic party
are appalled at the instant popularity of this initiative, of which over
60 percent of California voters approve, according to a recent field poll.
A significant number of those who supposedly benefit from the
preferential policies back the measure. Nearly 60 percent of women and
about 40 percent of blacks, Hispanics, and Asians. When asked about
affirmative action in general, California voters oppose the concept by a
2-1 ratio. "The elimination of affirmative action ... would be a
catastrophe for American women," says Katherine Spillar, national
coordinator of the Feminist Majority Foundation. Though Ms. Spillar does
not speak for most women, nor does she justify her belief that affirmative
action is "right," she declares: "Women will not quickly accept a
rollback in our rights." The Congressional Black Caucus has formed a task
force to fight efforts to overhaul affirmative action laws. Says Rep.
Donald M. Payne (D, NJ), Chairman of the caucus: "We are going to be a
truth squad to interpret correctly what affirmative action is and what the
goals have been." Let us look at what affirmative action is. Sen. Bill
Bradley (D, NJ) claims: "The issue has been distorted that affirmative
action to many means reverse discrimination and preferences, which is
clearly not what affirmative action is. That's what Quotas are." You
have got it exactly wrong senator. Like most liberals, you believe that
an innocent sounding name for a policy equals an innocent policy. But in
real life, in the real world, senator, affirmative action means reverse
discrimination and preferences. Affirmative action means quotas.
Affirmative action is institutional racism, and it's time to end it.
