By its very definition,
affirmative action cannot be a moral or ethical program that was designed as a
handout vs. a hand-up to those in need. Affirmative action like any socially
engineered government program actually harms its recipients rather than help
and nurtures them into prosperity. Its hypocritical methods of targeting only
one of various ethnic groups in a society are mismanagement of taxpayer
resources, targeting those who are the recipients as victims, thus continuing
the program from generation to generation until the essence of individual
thought, self preservation, pride, self-esteem and the desire to better ones
self through intestinal fortitude and good old fashion hard work, are eroded to
the point that these individuals and entire generations are who are now
dependent upon a program with no redeeming intrinsically value.
Through insistence of
affirmative action in the work place is actually placing two individuals in an
uncanny and hopeless position. The first is the individual who was not
considered for the position although well qualified. The second is the one
hired for the position although marginally or not qualified for the position.
There is a third… the employer who must now hire an under qualified individual
and attempt to train at company expense and at a loss while the individual is
not producing a product or providing a service. Than means the other employees
must now assume the duties for the under qualified and the employer must still
pay into health care (if applicable,) unemployment, taxes and social security.
Racism and slavery
are and were a terrible wrong perpetrated against a faction of society, that were
brought into this country against their will by private enterprise for the
propose of providing a service.
Racism did not begin
in these United States. Slavery did not begin in these United States. Slavery
has affected people of every race and color were both slaves and enslavers, for
thousands of years globally. Europeans enslaved other Europeans for centuries
before the first African was brought across the Atlantic. Asians enslaved other
Asians, as well as whatever Europeans they could get hold of. Slavery existed
in the Western Hemisphere before Columbus ever got here (Sowell, T, 2002).
So keeping the
discussion of Thomas Sowell in mind and the fact that Europeans and Asians
enslaved their own countrymen, who then enslaved Africans… why it was fellow
African’s, who then sold off their own countrymen just like the Europeans and
Asians to the highest bidder. So from the standpoint of racism, would it not be
prudent to see that Blacks in this country are/were victims if you will of
racism in the highest degree, not from the Anglo Saxon in America. But whom did
rather fellow countrymen subcontract of providing the prime contractor a
commodity?
Also according to
Sowell, Slavery was and is not limited to any
particular country or race. If reparations were to be paid for slavery,
everybody on this planet would owe everybody else.
Winston
Churchill said during World War II: "If the past sits in judgment on the
present, the future will be lost (Churchill, W, n.d.).
Or, as
Thomas Sowell has so eloquently put it: “The ancestors of black Americans were
not taken from some Eden, and there is no Eden for black Americans to return to
today. If compensation were to be paid for the difference between where they
are and where their ancestors came from, they would owe money, not receive
money. But it would be ridiculous to lose the future because of the past” (Sowell, T, 2002).
Ancestors of slavery
today have more opportunity to prosper in areas that most people globally would
die for the opportunity to have. Why do I address this, simply because the very
faction of society that was wronged, is the one that must rise itself up and
beyond affirmative action, welfare babies, WIC, food stamps, and any other
source of governmental transfer payment, that is engineered to keep its
recipients down trodden and dependent upon an entity that is stuck like the
movie “Groundhog Day”.
Reference: THOMAS
SOWELL, C. S. (2002, Jan 29). THE FACTS ABOUT SLAVERY. South Florida Sun -
Sentinel. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com.
Thomas Sowell is a senior
fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305. His
Web site is www.tsowell.com.
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