A recent CNN poll shows that more than two thirds of blacks in America believe Martin Luther King’s dream has been fulfilled with the election of Barack of Obama.
Which means that they won’t mind now when we immediately stop all minority based preferential treatment, such as job quotas and preferential treatment in the awarding of contracts.
It’s long past time for blacks to receive equal treatment in this country, rather than special and preferential treatment.
Michelle Malkin argues though that blacks haven’t completely fulfilled the King’s dream in one key area — through now fault of their own: educational opportunities:
Teachers’ unions and government school protectionists have stood in the schoolhouse door, blocking innovation, competition, and parental choice — leaving minority children and their families to languish in some of the country’s worst schools.
Michelle has a point. Liberal policies and agendas are killing our public schools. Combine that with unions, who do nothing but ruin anything good these days…and it’s no wonder those who can (the Obamas) choose to put their kids in elite private schools rather than subject them to the horrors of our nation’s public schools.
Let’s go back to 1991. We were in a recession and I was about to graduate from college. I had the FBI, CIA, and Department of Agriculture hand back my resume at the job fair and they all three said, “We’re only considering women and minorities.”
Anyone who tells you there’s no such thing as reverse discrimination is a liar.
And no, I didn’t particularly want to work for the Ag Department, but a job is a job.
John, my daughter dated a brilliant guy, of Italian descent, who went to Sam Houston. He was on the NATIONAL Dean’s list all four year and wanted to be accepted to physical therapy medical school. He was told that some of his courses were not acceptable (because the counselor at Sam Houston messed up) so he took those courses in his fifth year. He remained one of the few students to be on the National Dean’s list all four years and carried a 4.0 GPA.
When he applied for physical therapy medical school, he was told the same thing you were. “Sorry, we are not taking white male applicants.” was all he heard. His five year dream went down the tubes.
The argument for affirmative action has always been that we need to level the playing field. Yet that doesn’t seem to apply to sports. When are we going to see a 5′ 6″ Italian playing for the NBA? Or a woman?
And it seems if you vote for a candidate because of the color of their skin, that is not racist, but if you vote against a candidate because of the color of their skin it is.
And if affirmative action is such a good thing, when are we going to hear black Americans who leave a job to promote, demand that job be given to an Asian or a Native American, to continue the cycle of affirmative action?
“And it seems if you vote for a candidate because of the color of their skin, that is not racist, but if you vote against a candidate because of the color of their skin it is.”
An awful lot of people voted for Obama because of his skin color, but I doubt that very many voted against him for it.
The fact is that there just aren’t that many white racists out there.
I strongly believe that Martin Luther King’s dream has become a reality. I see an America whose racial problems are a thing of the past. Men and women of all colors and backgrounds came together November 4th and made racial equality a legit quality of America. It would seem that race relations problems now consists of Urban vs suburban. Rev. Kings dream has been realized, but the great thing about him was that he would not stop at civil rights. We as Americans must come up with new dreams and aspirations, set goals for the union to complete. We should celebrate our great success but also should move towards progress. “I have a dream, that one day all cars will produce no carbon”, should be a great example. Good job America, now lets proceed with whats next.