Of course there is also affirmative action for well-to-do whites, from legacy college admissions to the old boys' club of hiring and connections. Somehow this is never thought to be the same.
Posted on 08/11/2008 9:35:42 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Much of America's political conversation is couched in code. And so it was that recently the McCain campaign accused Barack Obama of playing the "race card," two four-letter words that, taken together, trail a wealth of innuendo like a comet's tail.
Using the term "race card" as a pejorative is almost always meant to promulgate the big lie that takes hold everywhere from the workplace to the classroom: that black men and women commonly use race as a bludgeon and an excuse, and that they will always blame failures or disagreements on racism.
This is belied by objective reality. To hear tell, you would believe that the world is chockablock with minority lawyers, teachers, construction workers and police officers who spend all their time complaining about institutional racism, calling others out on offensive jokes and assumed stereotypes. But most of us encounter the opposite, the silence of people who learned a long time ago that to get along it's imperative to go along.
In part this is because they're carrying a load on their shoulders. When one of the white guys blows an account, the office line is that he's a loser. But when a black guy does it, it means that they—that's the all-purpose "they," sometimes used interchangeably with "those people"—don't seem to be able to close the deal. Same goes for women, which is one reason the Clinton-Obama rivalry got so pitched during the primaries. Our piece of the pie is small, and often there's only one fork. When someone like Senator McCain says he's opposed to quotas, it sounds like country-club code for "We liked the pie the old way."
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Only in the fevered minds of demented lefties.
It ain't no lie, lady. Perhaps you missed Rev Wrights rants, those of Al Sharpton and that Jackson feller. Perhaps a look at a few "black power" web sites will open your eyes as well, or what the heck, just read Obama's books.
Ms. Quindlen reminds me of this old acorn: A reporter spots Christ walking on the water. The next day, the headline in his paper reads, “Christ Can’t Swim!”
Pinhead.
Aw come on, that never happens.
Quindlen obviously is unfamiliar with the civil rights legislation as originally passed. It FORBIDS quotas flatly. That the Justice Department under many presidents has used it as the basis for quotas is the source of the problem. McCain is saying "observe the law as it was written".
Of course there is also affirmative action for well-to-do whites, from legacy college admissions to the old boys' club of hiring and connections. Somehow this is never thought to be the same.
Plainly this woman needs to get out more.
Gads. This woman’s tiny mind (or what passes for one) is a fever-pit of paranoia. It’s hard to imagine how she gets through the day.
Man, she’s a real hottie....ahem...
Um... it IS Anna- don't you watch TV?
Just part of the agitprop campaign.
Who reads Time or Newsweek anymore? It's like reading a dumbed-down week-old New York Times. In other words, stale leftist trash.
That's because it's not the same. If you look at the difference in SAT scores between legacy and non-legacy admits at a selective school, it's on the order of 30-50 points. The difference between non-affirmative action admits and affirmative action black admits is about 200 points.
I am not a big defender of legacy admission, and I don't think public universities should have it at all, but a private school has the right to do them as a trade-off for alumni support.
Anna Marie Quindlen (b. July 8, 1952) is a liberal American author, journalist and opinion columnist
Married to Gerald Krovatin, an attorney
A racist is a white person who is not a self-hating white.
Let’s see. Ugly. Communist. Ok, that’s sufficient.
As much as I like your definition, the competition for that decription is severe.
MacPaper (USA Today) is dumber still, but at least it is printed on an absorbent paper which makes great guinea pig cage liner.
This article only deserves one word “gag” or “puke”
You get the drift.
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