The Founding Fathers recognized that all men are created equal. Modern Marxists would claim, in the spirit of George Orwell’s “Animal Farm,” that some men are more equal than others.
“Equity” is Marxist/Democrat doublespeak for “institutionalized racism.” It is not the same as equality; indeed, it is the opposite. The Democrat Party has prioritized racist authoritarianism since it launched a Civil War over slavery, since it enacted Jim Crow laws and donned KKK hoods, and since it abruptly decided to “switch” to being the alleged champion of minorities and anti-racist dogma. While the favored ethnicities might have changed over the years, the underlying ideology is the same: some people are inherently the enemy because of a skin color they happen to be born with, while other people are inherently superior.
For example, new legislation in Illinois, once the land of Republican Abraham Lincoln but now totally under the sway of the Democrat Party, reportedly puts a price on every student based on his skin color (an external feature which he can neither control nor change). This is only a few months after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down “affirmative action” (ie., race-focused) college admission standards. Would the Illinois legislation be in direct conflict with federal law?
Heritage Foundation Senior Fellow Mike Gonzalez exposed the proposed Illinois legislation last month in a piece for the Washington Examiner:
According to a complex funding formula to be laid out in the bill, colleges and universities in the Prairie State would receive $6,000 for every black or American Indian student enrolled. Hispanics don’t fetch that much — only $4,000 per student. White and Asian students don’t get any money at all.
Isn’t this not only racism but a new form of slavery? They are literally assigning prices to humans based merely on their skin color. They are essentially incentivizing colleges to bring in individuals not based on their intelligence, their test scores, or other qualifications, but entirely based on their appearance. They are basically claiming that humans have inherent value — or lack of value — to the tune of a certain amount of money because of their ethnicity. How could this happen in modern-day America?
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And what deleterious effects will it not have on students? It is psychologically training them to believe they have value or not based on a feature, which, again, they have absolutely no control over. Some students will be brought into college even though they are not qualified, and there trained to believe they have a right to money and privileges because they were born a certain way. How will those students behave in the workplace once they graduate, if they do?
My generation already struggles in the working world; most U.S. youth were raised going to schools and watching media that told them they were entitled to everything, and anyone who says differently is a racist, a sexist, a homophobe, or [insert insult here]. Gen Zers are considered delusional, irrational, and incompetent. But it is not entirely our fault; we were trained that way. My generation is applying the pernicious Marxist philosophy adults gave to them in school to the workplace, and it is backfiring. America has raised a whole generation that cannot cope with reality, and if you think Gen Z is bad, wait until the COVID-lockdown generation grows up.
Former slave and educator Booker T. Washington warned over 100 years ago against race-based government handouts and programs. Clarence Thomas noted many decades ago that affirmative action would be harmful to his fellow black Americans as well as white Americans because it is based not on merit but on arbitrary racial standards. Even in his youth, he sometimes wondered if race played too much of a role in employers’ decision-making, and that has grown exponentially worse and more open now. When my mother was teaching in the '90s, her coworkers were already making hiring decisions based not on qualifications but on sex and skin color.
DEI is destroying America’s institutions, including our political institutions, where we see Democrats arguing that some people (like Kamala Harris) should be elected simply based on their sex or skin color.
INSANE: Professor at @UnivOfKansas says that men who don't vote for Kamala should be lined up and shot.
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) October 9, 2024
He then asks that line to be cut from the recording so the dean doesn't find out.
Any comment @UnivOfKansas?pic.twitter.com/3TotbHSqLa
If Americans would only start hiring based on merit, then automatically individuals of all races would qualify for certain positions and would be hired for them. The military is an excellent example. It is an extremely diverse force, and it was so long before DEI became the order of the day. Americans of all ethnic backgrounds were eager to join the military, and they moved up the ranks. Now the military, like every other U.S. institution, is becoming poisoned with racism.
Meritorious individuals of all racial backgrounds are now increasingly reticent about joining the military. Talented, intelligent, capable people do not want their career success to be based on what ethnicity their commander happens to like best. Nor do they want to work for fools or traitors who were promoted simply because they meet DEI criteria.
I would like to close with a quote from Booker T. Washington, who faced white supremacy and racism in his day yet was charitable to everyone and managed to run a highly successful educational institution. He believed that through education and personal responsibility, black Americans — and all other Americans — could prosper. Indeed, his educational model of combining manual labor with academics is an excellent one we should adopt today.
Washington’s quote is brilliantly applicable today, not only in describing Democrats’ current attitude decades before DEI came into existence, but also in explaining why they have that attitude: it pays off in power and money.
There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.
