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| Race, Ethnicity Will No Longer Be A Factor In Amerika... |
| 11.13.03 (11:03 pm) [edit] |
Anti-affirmative action activist Ward Connerly recently tried to erase race by constitutional amendment. Connerly's ballot measure was soundly defeated in the shadows of California's historic gubernatorial recall election.
Nevertheless, the polarizing figure managed to open America's age-old debate about race. Connerly argues that the civil rights movement was some 40 years ago and most Americans have moved beyond race.
Fortunately, voters in the most ethnically diverse state in the union disagreed and decided to continue collecting racial statistics that measure academic achievement, family income, home ownership and all the rest.
The Proletariat hates to kick a dog while he's down, but the people usually find no trouble keeping on Connerly's case.
I recently stumbled across musing commentary from trusted authority and civil rights attorney Connie Rice and thought I should share it with you. And no, not G.W.s Condi Rice. This should have been the campaign slogans for the good people of the golden state who stood up to self-hating Connerly
[b]We'll know that race no longer matters...[/b]
10. When Shoshanna Johnson gets the same book and movie deal enjoyed by Jessica Lynch.
9. When white people stop exclaiming how articulate I am.
8. When the perjury of a white thief can no longer send 15 percent of a town's black residents to prison for a total of 400 years on false drug charges (Like in Tulia, Texas.)
7. When Steven Glass' serial fabrications prompt questions about white male qualifications the way Jayson Blair's did about black journalists' qualifications.
6. When white ex-cons no longer get more job call-backs than crime-free blacks with the same resumes.
5. When black sports ignoramuses get fired for saying the same stupid stuff that white sports ignoramuses get fired for.
4. When the word "genocide" gets dropped from Webster's.
3. When black Court of Appeals judges in suits no longer get mistaken for bellhops.
2. When Tim McVeigh look-alikes -- tall angry-looking white guys with buzz cuts -- get profiled and rounded up like black suspects.
1. When the projected date for full housing integration between blacks and whites ceases to be more than 100 years from now.
[b]And finally... when statistics like this aren't measurable because the disparities are gone. [/b]
---Proletariat
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posted by: george (reply)
post date: 11.13.03 (11:17 pm)
It'd be great if we lived in a world where race didn't matter. Unfortunately, due to our culture and upbringing, race will always be a factor. Even though nowadays we are more PC and polite, we still think the same thing we did 20 or 30 years ago. We still think the same thing when we see a dirty person (mexican illegal), a basketball player (black drug dealer), or a well dressed, articulate person (white anal honkie)
We may not want to think it, but it crosses our minds because we're conditioned to think it. As mentioned before - culture, upbringing, media, music, education - all these things contribue to our way of thinking.
posted by: KitnKaboodle (reply)
post date: 11.14.03 (1:25 pm)
Your right, it be great if these types of statistics were no longer measurable. When will Connerly and others help us heal rather than asking us to forget.
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