Webb gets one right ....almost
Posted: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 18:13:04
A little op ed by Jim Webb to the Wall street Journal.. Methinks he is feeling that hot breath of he voters on the back of his neck.
ANGRY WHITE DUDE FINALLY AGREES WITH A DEMOCRAT!
posted by AWD 3:07 PM Friday, July 23, 2010
JIM WEBB - FINALLY RIGHT ON ONE THING!
Mark this day in your calendar! Hell is freezing over, dogs and cats are sleeping together, Arabs are playing golf with Jews, Janeane Garofalo has taken a bath and AWD agrees with a Democrat on something! Looks like that little thing called the tea party is causing the socialist Dims to start talking like they have some sense!
In his article entitled “Diversity and the Myth of White Privilege” in today’s Wall Street Journal, Senator (and otherwise no-class a**hole) Jim Webb of Virginia calls for the equalization of opportunity in America. Just what we have been preaching here at AWD for two years! Webb doesn’t place the well-deserved blame of discrimination at the feet of the politically correct and everything else incorrect Dims and I don’t agree with him about extending specialized programs to blacks because of the legacy of slavery but at least his article is a step in the right direction. I don’t believe we have a “continuing obligation” to blacks anymore. With all the social programs, welfare, affirmative actions, useless government jobs…they have been paid back in spades! Here are the last few paragraphs but I’ll put the link below:
In 1938, President Franklin Roosevelt created a national commission to study what he termed “the long and ironic history of the despoiling of this truly American section.” At that time, most industries in the South were owned by companies outside the region. Of the South’s 1.8 million sharecroppers, 1.2 million were white (a mirror of the population, which was 71% white). The illiteracy rate was five times that of the North-Central states and more than twice that of New England and the Middle Atlantic (despite the waves of European immigrants then flowing to those regions). The total endowments of all the colleges and universities in the South were less than the endowments of Harvard and Yale alone. The average schoolchild in the South had $25 a year spent on his or her education, compared to $141 for children in New York.
Generations of such deficiencies do not disappear overnight, and they affect the momentum of a culture. In 1974, a National Opinion Research Center (NORC) study of white ethnic groups showed that white Baptists nationwide averaged only 10.7 years of education, a level almost identical to blacks’ average of 10.6 years, and well below that of most other white groups. A recent NORC Social Survey of white adults born after World War II showed that in the years 1980-2000, only 18.4% of white Baptists and 21.8% of Irish Protestants—the principal ethnic group that settled the South—had obtained college degrees, compared to a national average of 30.1%, a Jewish average of 73.3%, and an average among those of Chinese and Indian descent of 61.9%.
Policy makers ignored such disparities within America’s white cultures when, in advancing minority diversity programs, they treated whites as a fungible monolith. Also lost on these policy makers were the differences in economic and educational attainment among nonwhite cultures. Thus nonwhite groups received special consideration in a wide variety of areas including business startups, academic admissions, job promotions and lucrative government contracts.
Where should we go from here? Beyond our continuing obligation to assist those African-Americans still in need, government-directed diversity programs should end.
Nondiscrimination laws should be applied equally among all citizens, including those who happen to be white. The need for inclusiveness in our society is undeniable and irreversible, both in our markets and in our communities. Our government should be in the business of enabling opportunity for all, not in picking winners. It can do so by ensuring that artificial distinctions such as race do not determine outcomes.
Memo to my fellow politicians: Drop the Procrustean policies and allow harmony to invade the public mindset. Fairness will happen, and bitterness will fade away.
AWD has been saying for two years that government and society is slanted against the white male. Maybe Senator Webb reads AWD. I’d like to think Webb is a closet dude but I’m not sure he’s that groovy.
Let your voice ring out! Don’t be afraid of the politically correct rules set for us by leftist tools! It’s time OUR voices are heard! My guess Webb realized the proletariat who pay the bills are angry and headed for DC and got weak knees. Enough to speak out against the policies and beliefs of his party. And he damn well ought to be scared.
“Diversity and the Myth of White Privilege”
ANGRY WHITE DUDE FINALLY AGREES WITH A DEMOCRAT!
posted by AWD 3:07 PM Friday, July 23, 2010
JIM WEBB - FINALLY RIGHT ON ONE THING!
Mark this day in your calendar! Hell is freezing over, dogs and cats are sleeping together, Arabs are playing golf with Jews, Janeane Garofalo has taken a bath and AWD agrees with a Democrat on something! Looks like that little thing called the tea party is causing the socialist Dims to start talking like they have some sense!
In his article entitled “Diversity and the Myth of White Privilege” in today’s Wall Street Journal, Senator (and otherwise no-class a**hole) Jim Webb of Virginia calls for the equalization of opportunity in America. Just what we have been preaching here at AWD for two years! Webb doesn’t place the well-deserved blame of discrimination at the feet of the politically correct and everything else incorrect Dims and I don’t agree with him about extending specialized programs to blacks because of the legacy of slavery but at least his article is a step in the right direction. I don’t believe we have a “continuing obligation” to blacks anymore. With all the social programs, welfare, affirmative actions, useless government jobs…they have been paid back in spades! Here are the last few paragraphs but I’ll put the link below:
In 1938, President Franklin Roosevelt created a national commission to study what he termed “the long and ironic history of the despoiling of this truly American section.” At that time, most industries in the South were owned by companies outside the region. Of the South’s 1.8 million sharecroppers, 1.2 million were white (a mirror of the population, which was 71% white). The illiteracy rate was five times that of the North-Central states and more than twice that of New England and the Middle Atlantic (despite the waves of European immigrants then flowing to those regions). The total endowments of all the colleges and universities in the South were less than the endowments of Harvard and Yale alone. The average schoolchild in the South had $25 a year spent on his or her education, compared to $141 for children in New York.
Generations of such deficiencies do not disappear overnight, and they affect the momentum of a culture. In 1974, a National Opinion Research Center (NORC) study of white ethnic groups showed that white Baptists nationwide averaged only 10.7 years of education, a level almost identical to blacks’ average of 10.6 years, and well below that of most other white groups. A recent NORC Social Survey of white adults born after World War II showed that in the years 1980-2000, only 18.4% of white Baptists and 21.8% of Irish Protestants—the principal ethnic group that settled the South—had obtained college degrees, compared to a national average of 30.1%, a Jewish average of 73.3%, and an average among those of Chinese and Indian descent of 61.9%.
Policy makers ignored such disparities within America’s white cultures when, in advancing minority diversity programs, they treated whites as a fungible monolith. Also lost on these policy makers were the differences in economic and educational attainment among nonwhite cultures. Thus nonwhite groups received special consideration in a wide variety of areas including business startups, academic admissions, job promotions and lucrative government contracts.
Where should we go from here? Beyond our continuing obligation to assist those African-Americans still in need, government-directed diversity programs should end.
Nondiscrimination laws should be applied equally among all citizens, including those who happen to be white. The need for inclusiveness in our society is undeniable and irreversible, both in our markets and in our communities. Our government should be in the business of enabling opportunity for all, not in picking winners. It can do so by ensuring that artificial distinctions such as race do not determine outcomes.
Memo to my fellow politicians: Drop the Procrustean policies and allow harmony to invade the public mindset. Fairness will happen, and bitterness will fade away.
AWD has been saying for two years that government and society is slanted against the white male. Maybe Senator Webb reads AWD. I’d like to think Webb is a closet dude but I’m not sure he’s that groovy.
Let your voice ring out! Don’t be afraid of the politically correct rules set for us by leftist tools! It’s time OUR voices are heard! My guess Webb realized the proletariat who pay the bills are angry and headed for DC and got weak knees. Enough to speak out against the policies and beliefs of his party. And he damn well ought to be scared.
“Diversity and the Myth of White Privilege”
