Kansas City Guidelines Standards Quotas

Affirmative action “goals” and “guidelines” have long been the emperor’s new clothes that do nothing to hide the underlying quotas that are at the core of how affirmative action programs usually operate. A case in point is Kansas City, where an article in the Kansas City Star committed the unusual gaffe of using terms that reveal the truth most AA defenders take great pains to deny: that quotas are alive and well.

The lede:

Facing increased pressure from minority groups, Kansas City has hired five new on-site monitors and mailed hundreds of letters to contractors in an effort to ensure developers abide by the city

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  1. Ryan Waxx July 19, 2005 at 2:26 am | | Reply

    And this is why ‘Civil Rights’ now has a bad name.

    Liberals, in the original sense of the word, won all their important battles decades ago. All men and woman of all races have the same rights, and it is unthinkable to ever go back to the days of seperate drinking fountains or ‘negros need not apply’.

    But after they won the war, the old armies were still there. Political organizations that achieve their goals do not disband… they change direction, and begin overreaching until the havoc they wreck on society generates a backlash. Witness MADD’s conversion to a ‘drunk driving’ organization to an absolutionist one.

    The Civil Rights movement was unstoppable because at the time, they were on the sides of the angels, and most decent folk supported their goals. That is clearly not the case today, as the juggernaut that crushed the Dixiecrats is now trying to operate without popular support.

    There is a big difference between making sure everyone can get a bite out of the American Apple Pie, and making sure you lop off the biggest piece you can and attacking anyone who looks like they might want some.

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