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Affirmative Action for Whites
by Ravi Grover
4/28/03
"Far more whites have entered the gates of the 10 most elite
institutions through 'alumni preference' than the combined numbers
of all the Blacks and Chicanos entering through affirmative action."
- S.F. Examiner, April 1995
" We must understand the cynicism that exists in the Black community.
The kind of cynicism that is created when, for example, some in our party miss
no opportunity to roundly and loudly condemn affirmative action that helped
few thousand Black kids get an education, but you hardly heard a whimper from
them over affirmative action for lobbyists who load our federal tax codes with
preferences for special interests."
- Colin Powell at the 2000 Republican National Convention
One
of many stops during Bush's 2000 campaign for the Presidency was Bob
Jones University, an ill-famed school which refused to allow the entry
of Black students up until 1971. Soon after admitting Blacks measures
were taken in 1975 to make sure that such people didn't intermingle with
whites. The school set a ban on interracial dating, citing a Biblical
story which talks of God creating barriers between different peoples.
During his campaign Bush didn't blink an eye or lodge any sort of moral
protest against Bob Jones University. But he sure did speak passionately
a few weeks after Senator Trent Lott's resignation over Affirmative Action
at the University of Michigan.
To me, George Bush is symbolic of America and business as usual. Here we have
a completely unintelligent and unqualified white guy who made bad grades both
in high school and in college yet is somehow in a high leadership position
with the support of a significant number people white and non-white. For whatever
reason these people deliberately overlook his stupidity and lack of competency.
His career title 'leader of the free world' requires knowledge of the international
community and global affairs; yet he makes blatantly ignorant statements like "Africa
is a nation that suffers from great disease" and "unrest in the Middle
East causes unrest through out the region." He got into Yale not because
of his intelligence (because he's obviously lacking that), but because 30%
of admissions in Ivy League schools are reserved specifically for children
of alumni, regardless of academic achievement. Why is it opponents of Affirmative
Action never seem to criticize the discriminatory policy of legacy admissions?
And no surprise that historically alumni at these schools have been majority
white males, so it would then make sense that the incoming 30% will also be
majority white. Bush also experimented with cocaine in his past yet avoided
going to jail (and moral judgment from white America). Yet another fine example
of Affirmative Action for whites: even though the majority of drug users in
America are white and Blacks make up a mere 13% of drug users, somehow Blacks
are 74% of the people imprisoned for possession of drugs. Bush is also a staunch
supporter of the War on Drugs as are many white parents - so long as white
kids who are caught are filling up rehab clinics and not jail cells. And here
is the most important aspect of Bush that resembles the structure of America:
the guy goes on vacation every other week and does very little work.
White Affirmative Action 2 - Doing the Work
