Walter Williams is my hero. In a recent column he writes, "There
are several race and sex issues that need addressing. Williams wants to know if
everyone is serious about equal treatment based on race and sex. He begins the column by citing the National Institute of Health.
Apparently male infants 1 to 3 months old should be fed 10% more calories per
day than females. Why should the boys get more food if boys and girls are "equal" he asks.
He says there is gross racial segregation in California
prisons where prisoners are housed by race. He also suggests if we value equality,
we shouldn't accept one prison for men and another for women. There should be
integration with both sexes represented in the same prison.
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He points out that the U.S. Army has a very blatantly sexist
physical fitness test. For a male 17-21 years of age to pass, he must do 35
pushups, do 47 situps and run 2 miles in 16 minutes, 36 seconds. A female
counterpart in the army, who receives the same pay, can pass the fitness test by doing a
mere 13 pushups, doing 47 situps and running 2 miles in 19 minutes, 42 seconds
(http://tinyurl.com/yaphmzl).
He wonders how can anyone who values equality and
self-respect tolerate this gross discrimination? The solution? "We should
either force women to come up to the physical fitness standards for men or pass
men who meet the female standards of fitness."
Williams points to other inequalities that people should be
mad about. Apparently Jews are only 3 percent of the U.S. population, but they
win 39 percent of U.S. Nobel laureate prizes. According to Williams that is an
immorally gross disparity for which there is no conceivable justification. He says
academia routinely teaches us that people are to be represented across
socioeconomic and ethnic lines according to their numerical representation in the
population. He muses that Jews must somehow be taking away rightful Nobel
laureates that should go to other racial groups in America. What a scam.
If you think Jews are the only group taking more than
their fair share of things, think again says the great professor. Williams says we should consider that blacks are only
13 percent of our population but they have taken nearly 80 percent of the
player jobs in the National Basketball Association. He points out that blacks are also the highest-paid
NBA players. Blacks also take an "unfair share" (66 percent) of professional
football jobs. Talk about privilege. Where is the fairness? Where is the equality? For shame! This must be some sort of a "racist" scheme.
Williams says any American sharing the value of race and sex
equality......plus the virtues of "diversity," should find these and other equality differences offensive. In fact, Williams says we should
demand that all of the Democrats and other "progressive elements" in
society take a solemn pledge to eliminate these gross imbalances the next time they talk about inequality.
Don't hold your breath or confuse Williams points with anything other than magnificent sarcasm. These are not the sorts
of unfairness or inequalities Democrats object to, nor are these the sorts of "diversity"
they seek. The standard for what they want tends to float to meet their
immediate needs rather comply with an actual standard.God bless Walter Williams for pointing out their gross hypocrisy so cleverly.
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ReplyDeleteIn early January 2014, Bob Lonsberry, a Rochester talk radio personality on WHAM 1180 AM, said this in response to Obama's "income inequality speech".
ReplyDeleteTo Americans:
The Democrats are right, there are two Americas. There’s the America that works, and the America that doesn't work. There’s the America that contributes, and the America that doesn't contribute. It's not the haves and the have not’s, it's the do’s and the don'ts. Some people do their duty as Americans, obey the law, support themselves, contribute to society, and others don't. That's the divide in America.
It's not about income inequality, it's about civic irresponsibility. It's about a political party that preaches hatred, greed and victimization in order to win elective office. It's about a political party that loves power more than it loves its country. That's not invective, that's truth, and it's about time someone said it.
The politics of envy was on proud display a couple weeks ago when President Obama pledged the rest of his term to fighting "income inequality." He noted that some people make more than other people and that some people have higher incomes than others, and he says that's not just. That is the rationale of thievery. The other guy has it, you want it, Obama will take it for you. Vote Democrat. That is the philosophy that produced Detroit. It is the electoral philosophy that is destroying America.
It conceals a fundamental deviation from American values and common sense because it ends up not benefiting the people who support it, but a betrayal. The Democrats have not empowered their followers. They have enslaved them in a culture of dependence, entitlement, victimhood and anger instead of ability and hope.
The president's premise - that you reduce income inequality by debasing the successful - seeks to deny the successful the consequences of their choices and spare the unsuccessful the consequences of their choices. Because, by and large, income variations in society is a result of different choices leading to different consequences, those who choose wisely and responsibly have a far greater likelihood of success, while those who choose foolishly and irresponsibly have a far greater likelihood of failure. Success and failure usually manifest themselves in personal and family income.You choose to drop out of high school or to skip college - and you are apt to have a different outcome than someone who gets a diploma and pushes on with purposeful education. You have your children out of wedlock and life is apt to take one course; you have them within a marriage and life is apt to take another course. Most often in life our destination is determined by the course we take.
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ReplyDeleteMy doctor, for example, makes far more than I do. There is significant income inequality between us. Our lives have had an inequality of outcome, but, our lives also have had an inequality of effort. While my doctor went to college and then devoted his young adulthood to medical school and residency, I got a job in a restaurant.He made a choice, I made a choice, and our choices led us to different outcomes. His outcome pays a lot better than mine. Does that mean he cheated and Barack Obama needs to take away his wealth? No, it means we are both free men in a free society where free choices lead to different outcomes. It is not inequality Barack Obama intends to take away, it is freedom, the freedom to succeed, and the freedom to fail. There is no true option for success if there is no true option for failure.The pursuit of happiness means a whole lot less when you face the punitive hand of government if your pursuit brings you more happiness than the other guy. Even if the other guy sat on his arse and did nothing even if the other guy made a lifetime's worth of asinine and shortsighted decisions.
Barack Obama and the Democrats preach equality of outcome as a right, while completely ignoring inequality of effort.
The simple Law of the Harvest - as ye sow, so shall ye reap - is sometimes applied as, "The harder you work, the more you get." Obama would turn that upside down. Those who achieve are to be punished as enemies of society and those who fail are to be rewarded as wards of society. Entitlement will replace effort as the key to upward mobility in American society if Barack Obama has it his way. He seeks a lowest common denominator society in which the government besieges the successful and productive to foster equality through mediocrity. He and his party speak of two Americas and their grip on power is based on using the votes of one to sap the productivity of the other. America is not divided by the differences in our outcomes. America is divided by the differences in our efforts. It is a false philosophy to say one man's success comes about unavoidably as the result of another man's victimization. What Obama offered was not a solution, but a separatism. He fomented division and strife, pitted one set of Americans against another for his own political benefit. That's what socialists offer,Marxist class warfare wrapped up with a bow. Two Americas, coming closer each day to proving the truth to Lincoln's maxim that a house divided against itself cannot stand.