This country is going to earth-shaking political transformation when black
Americans finally come to recognize the damage that liberals and the
Democratic Party have done to their culture.

Dennis Prager

One of the most dangerous myths in our lifetime has been that liberalism and
the Democratic Party are black America's best friends. For all of us who
desperately want African-Americans to prosper, the destruction of this myth
may be the single most important step to that end.


The recent Supreme Court decision affirming the centerpiece of liberal
policy concerning blacks -- affirmative action -- provides a perfect example
of a liberal policy that hurts blacks. If the Ku Klux Klan were given the
responsibility to develop social policy to hurt blacks, they could not have
come up with something more destructive.

Of course, unlike the Ku Klux Klan, liberals mean well. But that is
irrelevant. All decent Americans, not only liberals, acknowledge that
America has committed great injustices against its black citizens. Only they
were kidnapped from their homelands, shipped like cattle, enslaved, and then
subjected to legal racism.

But acknowledging America's historic injustice and debt to blacks doesn't
mean that whatever policy such acknowledgment leads to will necessarily help
them. Neither guilt nor good intentions necessarily lead to anything
positive. Affirmative action is a perfect example.

The first and most important reason affirmative action hurts blacks is that
it renders black achievement suspect. Every campus that practices race-based
affirmative action places every black student and professor there under a
cloud: Did this individual really merit getting in? Or did the university
lower its standards?

Anyone who denies this cloud is lying to himself. As is anyone who denies
that black students do not know it's there. If I were black, I would weep
because of affirmative action. All my work, everything that I have done on
my own with no one's help, and sometimes against great odds, is, thanks to
affirmative action alone, rendered suspect.

But, defenders of affirmative action respond, what about other students who
have gained admission thanks to some form of affirmative action -- such as
children of alumni?

The answer is that any student who got in thanks to Dad or Mom having been
an alumnus or a big donor to the university would also be under a cloud of
suspicion -- if everyone on campus knew at all times who they were. But
there is one enormous difference between those students and black
students -- few students know which ones have a parent who is an alumnus or
a donor, but everyone knows who is black. If children of alumni all had to
wear a red hat around campus 24 hours a day just as blacks wear black skin
24 hours a day, the fairness of their admission would also be suspect.

The second way in which race-based affirmative action injures blacks is that
it perpetuates the racist myth that race is significant. The notion that
racial diversity is important is itself based on this racist idea. It
confuses cultural diversity -- a great asset to a university -- with racial
diversity. It tells the black student that the rest of us regard him first
and foremost as black. Yet, no white or Asian student thinks of himself this
way, or is seen this way by others. Yet universities chisel this racist
absurdity into students' hearts, minds and souls. Thanks to liberals, it
will take yet another generation to identify people by their achievements
and personalities rather than by their color.

Third, affirmative action tells blacks that America is so racist that they
cannot achieve anything significant without having rules bent on their
behalf. This is a libel on America, and it is utterly dispiriting to blacks.

Fourth, it discourages self-reliance and hard work. If you knew that
wherever you went in life, you would be given special consideration because
of your ethnicity or color, would you work as hard? Of course not.
Affirmative action is race-based welfare.

Here's the proof at how toxic affirmative action is to blacks: Imagine a
campus where the university announced that it had abolished all racial
considerations in admitting students. How do you think the blacks at that
college would be regarded by all other students? And how do you think blacks
would regard themselves?

The answers are so obvious that it is entirely fair to state that the
greatest enemies of black progress are white and black liberals. There is no
doubt that one day a generation of blacks will realize this. And when they
do, they will finally be free.


--
Oh, be still my heart.

I'm falling in love with the guy all over again, while reading Hillary's
book.
Forget about her being the smartest woman in the world. She's the luckiest
woman!

- Bonnie BLUE EYES, boniblueyz@aol.com, who insists everyone knows she is
White

"Liberals.HATE.America!'," wrote:
>
> This country is going to earth-shaking political transformation when black
> Americans finally come to recognize the damage that liberals and the
> Democratic Party have done to their culture.
>
> Dennis Prager
>

Dennis Prager is a white guy. There's no need to read his article
because his opinions are completely irrelevant. He, like me, has no
experience with racism and has no business telling blacks what's good
for them.

**** it, Negros, milk this affirmative action for all it's worth and
kick whitey's ass. You can end affirmative action when you've taken
over the country. We'll see how well Dennis's grandkids do in that
college market.