Yes, Let’s “Turn Back The Clock”

O.K., I admit it. I would in fact like to “turn back the clock” … to the short window of time after the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964 had, after 130 years or so of effort, enshrined in law the principle that it was wrong for any person to be awarded benefits or burdens on the basis of race. In one of the great wrong turns in American history, the very forces that had led that struggle almost immediately renounced their accomplishment and went charging off in the opposite direction, demanding racial preferences.

Indeed, I am so tired of plaintive rhetorical pleas not to “turn back the clock” (the latest, from Mary Sue Coleman, president of the University of Michigan in the Washington Post today, which I will turn to in a moment) that I am sorely tempted to offer a DISCRIMINATIONS cash prize of ten cents in coin to the author of any defense of racial preferences who does not use either that phrase or the Iniquitous Ubiquitous Non Sequitur.

Maybe later.

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