Roger’s Rules

By Roger Kimball

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ajbuckle
2007-11-20 08:55:12

“Two equally capable runners are in a ten mile marathon, one is given shoes, the other is not.”

It sounds nice, except… Those two equally capable runners have been dead for 150 years, and now their great-great-grand-children are running a race. Should those distant descendants be treated equally or with one given the advantage?

Martin Luther King said, and I agree, that a man be judged by the content of his character not by the color of his skin. Perhaps you have entirely forgotten the “I have a dream” speech? It means that judging blacks and whites by different standards is racist, and contains the implication that racism is wrong.

Your hypocritical contortions of logic that are necessary to support AA are beyond the bounds of reason.