When California eliminated state-sponsored discrimination nearly 30 years ago by prohibiting preferences based on race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, education, and contracting, the sky didn't fall. Indeed, Chicken Little's histrionics proved equally false when eight other states did exactly the same.
Nonetheless, current laudable legislative efforts to eliminate this insidious racism in Arkansas have brought out the hen's kin. The interesting switch, however, is that in ululating their frantic screeds, progressives have finally abandoned their pretextual justifications for affirmative action--now openly admitting they cling to this structural racism to perpetuate quotas, set asides, and preferences.
Take Democratic State Sen. Clarke Tucker, who suggested in Senate committee that when Arkansas joins the diverse states that have long eliminated state-sanctioned racism in government hiring, college admissions, and contracting, somehow Arkansas' Black art and culture museum would close. That's false.
California, in fact, has the very first African American museum of art, history, and culture fully supported by a state, and that museum remains completely operational, notwithstanding the Golden State's decades-old ban on affirmative action. (Quelle surprise!)
When the sponsor of the bill to end government quotas, set asides, and preferences in Arkansas--state Sen. Dan Sullivan--recounted that Attorney General Tim Griffin...
Times of Malta's editorial team has demanded that alleged money-launderer Chris Spiteri remove false claims posted on Facebook against journalist Jacob Borg. An alert has also been filed with the ...