Lashawn Barber highlights the irony that affirmative action supporters are now going to have to deal with other minorities whining for race or ethnicity-based entitlements.
The “past injustices” argument, once a noble proposition, has become a laughably oblique screed used to help disguise or downplay underachievement and justify government-mandated “reverse” racial discrimination and its attendant immoral transfer of wealth.It is wrong to treat people differently because of their race, a violation of the Equal Protection Clause. That clause does not guarantee equal outcomes. No policy can or ever will guarantee equal outcomes. The idea that everybody must have the same stuff and that every profession must reflect the proportionate racial make-up of the country or else racism is involved is idiotic, illogical, and unworkable. But the notion is entrenched, and the ignorance is passed on from one generation to the next.
The government is already trending toward bestowing preferred minority status on hispanics, for whom affirmative action was not created. Blacks who support and rely on race preferences — particularly for skin color-based government contracts and college admissions — and reject fair and consistent standards of performance will live to regret it.
They’ll get a mouthful of their own bitter medicine, and I’m going to enjoy watching them swallow it, especially since they’re powerless to stop it and have no moral authority to claim that it’s “unfair.”
Reconstruction is over.