The Inherent Wrongness of "Diversity"

While I was perusing this article over at the Daily Caller that outlines Michelle Obama's college senior article demanding race-based hiring and promotion at her college, I was reminded of just how damaging and wrong-headed this fad of "diversity" is for our country.

The 1988 essay, titled “Minority and Women Law Professors: A Comparison of Teaching Styles,” ran in a special edition of the BLSA Memo. The future first lady justified her demands for more black and female law school faculty by attacking the “traditional model,” in which law students were educated through the Socratic method.
She also opposed the traditional meritocratic hiring principle, where professors with better legal pedigrees were more often hired, arguing that it limited the success of women and blacks.

"Limited the success?" In college? Where you can study, learn the course material and succeed through your own efforts? Um, who's stopping you from doing that?

“The faculty’s decision to distrust and ignore non-traditional qualities in choosing and tenuring law professors merely reinforces racist and sexist stereotypes,” Mrs. Obama wrote, ”which, in turn, serve to legitimize students’ tendencies to distrust certain types of teaching that do not resemble the traditional images."

I find it curious in the extreme that the then-Miss Robinson would decry the Socratic Method of instruction, particularly when it comes to the law. It's not like there's anything wrong with this method. It's been quite useful in classrooms for a few millenia now.

Why would you want to advocate a system based solely on one's skin color, not the proven ability to grasp the subject or get good grades, unless you yourself were racist?

The concept of "diversity" has done a great deal of harm to our society, as intended. It ignores the  fact that America is already a very diverse society. We are the melting pot of the world, open to all who value the American ideals of freedom, individuality, and equality before the law. This perversion of reality apparently works on the weak-minded and easily led, by which I mean those who lean to the political left who tend to look at people in a stereotypical way, not as individuals.

The reason for this damage is clear: skin color is to be preferred over ability. If you replace the word "ability" with "merit," you'll start to better understand how this concept has eroded a society that was once accustomed to being the best it could be, and by extension, the best in the world. Under this new banner of "diversity," outer appearance is valued above inner ability, looks are preferred over intellect, percentages and quotas are the new standard, not capacity or smarts.

Those of us who live in a Reality-based world can only gaze upon this idea and wonder how anyone could embrace such a ridiculous idea.

Why wouldn't you want to have the best instructors available? The best judges, doctors, accountants, business people, engineers or society?

What does skin color or sex have to do with intellect?

Nothing, that's what.

It's time that we retired this fad and put it with pet rocks, leisure suits, and Socialism on the ash heap of history's failed ideas and return to a society based on quality, intellect, and ability, not skin color.

NBPP's Message of Peace, Love, and Tolerance: "Our Feet Will Be On Your Motherf***king Necks"

Kum-ba-ya.

What a lovely display of all the values of the Left, wrapped up in one phone call.

I feel all warm and fuzzy, don't you?

Funny, I Don't Feel Like a Bigot

Virginia State Senator Louise Lucas thinks you're a racist and a bigot if you don't support Barack Obama for president. This is relevant because she's a member of his re-election "Truth Team."
Listen for yourself...



Sorry, but I didn't hear very much truth in her statements.


Senator Lucas, I'd like to begin the discussion that you said you wanted about race, if I may.

I want you to know this: The color of Barack Obama's skin has no effect on my opinion of him in any way. It's his policies that I oppose. It's his poor opinion of America that I oppose. It's his political foundation of big government and radical Socialism that I oppose.

His race has absolutely nothing to do with it.

(h/t once again to Breitbart.com)

"Justice for Trayvon" - Mobile Man in Critical Condition After Hate Crime Beating

OK, Eric Holder, where are you? Will your inaction in this case (a clear hate crime) condone this sort of reprehensible behavior? Have you forgotten your Oath of Office?

Al Sharpton? Jessie Jackson? Rev. Wright? What do you have to say for yourselves?

2012 Will Be the Most Racist Election Ever, or Something *Updated*

President Obama began his reelection campaign recently. I know this because his supporters are busy labeling (libeling?) anyone and everyone who has the audacity to question anything about him or his policies as a racist.



Puleeze. I mean really, that’s the best you guys can do? Call those of us on the right racists? Do you really think that, given the dire straits our country is in, that’s gonna fly anymore?

It never ceases to amaze me how the left in this country can so mischaracterize an issue. Somehow, inside their little minds, everything can be reduced to one simple thing that has nothing at all to do with reality.

In a way, we’ve been set up for this. We were sold the idea that the election of the first African-American president would, once and for all, prove that America wasn’t a racist nation. What that wound up doing instead was to give the left a cudgel with which to beat their political opponents with, namely us.

If you oppose our skyrocketing debt, you’re somehow a racist. Oppose ObamaCare? You’re a racist. Think Cash for Clunkers was a bad idea? Oh yeah, you’re a racist. Want to secure our border with Mexico? Guess what you are? Neener, neener, neener.

It’s all so simple for the left. It’s also complete and utter bullshit and everyone knows it.

Granted, we once had a problem with racism in America. I grew up in Alabama during the George Wallace era. I've seen racism up close and personal, which means I’ve seen the attitudes and actions that accompany that particular mindset. I’ve talked to racists and heard their arguments. And I’ve come to the inescapable conclusion that they are among the most stupid, ignorant, and un-Christian people I’ve ever seen. They are rightly shunned by anyone with any sense of true Biblical brotherhood. Thankfully, there aren’t many of them around anymore thanks to the societal pressure brought against them. If you have somehow managed to hang onto those beliefs, you don’t have very many friends. And rightly so.

So I find it puzzling to hear the supposedly well-educated pundits of the left frame any opposition to President Obama as racist. Instead, they're the ones who sound like racists. All manner of false accusations are leveled at the right in general and at the Tea Party in particular, from hurling racial epithets at black members of Congress to charges that Tea Partiers brought guns to rallies.

Seriously, that’s the best you can do? Even after your claims have been proven to be false, you still persist in lying? Do you really think that the rest of the country believes you when you accuse us of racism? Do you really not think we know better?

Furthermore, do you really think we’re that stupid? You must.

In case Mr. Smiley hasn’t noticed, we are trying to have a debate about the issues, but folks like him are preventing that from happening by grabbing the first open microphone they can find to yell, “RACIST!”

Here’s another example of someone who can’t seem to discuss an issue without injecting the false narrative of racism into it. Ladies and gentlemen, Ed Schultz.



“This is what the Republican Party stands for, though: racism. I think Donald Trump is a racist.”

Ed, help me out here.

There’s a Constitutional requirement that the president be a natural-born citizen. While I’m not a “birther,” I’m among the many folk who wonder why Barack Obama hasn’t put this issue to rest by producing the documents to prove he was born in Hawaii. Didn’t John McCain have to produce his birth certificate, too?

Obama could, if he chose to, command the podium and show his birth certificate to the country and settle this once and for all. The fact that he hasn’t done so makes me and many others just a bit curious. After all, John McCain had a cloud of controversy over his birth in Panama. Ultimately, his birth certificate was posted online for all to see. It appeared that he was Panamanian by birth, but he still came clean.

So, Ed, how does The Donald’s request to see those documents make him a racist? I wouldn’t mind seeing them myself. Does that also make me a racist?

What is the connection between racism and the law? Didn’t we fix that back in the Sixties when we outlawed discrimination based on skin color?

How does wanting to secure our border with Mexico make anyone a racist? I coulda swore we had a whole slew of laws to regulate the people who entered our country. We even have a whole department full of people in Washington for that reason, if I recall correctly. We just might want to know who enters our country, if they’re a tourist or not, and whether or not they’re in good health, just like the rest of the world does. We might also want to know if anyone who comes here might be a criminal or a terrorist. Oops, sorry, Janet Napolitano, I meant a "man-caused disaster waiting to happen."

But from the news reports I’ve seen, it doesn’t look like those laws are being enforced well, if at all. So, if you want our country’s immigration laws upheld, that makes you a racist, too?

I don’t get the connection. It’s like saying I’m a racist for not wanting to be robbed or beaten up.

Maybe it’s just me. I’m kinda dumb about some things, but I still can’t find anything about the issues like the debt that has anything to do with race. Inflation, high gas prices, our trade deficit, high unemployment, three wars at once, any criticism or opposition to them makes you a racist according to the left. The Tea Party was borne out of a very real concern about excessive taxation. They even took their name from a Revolutionary tax revolt that happened well before the War Between the States.

That’s racist? You sure could have fooled me.

But you won’t.

I, along with the rest of my fellow citizens, won’t let you.

*Update. No sooner had I posted this than Ace informs us that President Obama has released his long form birth certificate. We have ESPN, Ace and I.