Over six months ago I noted some of the racialist provisions that were larded liberally throughout Obamacare, asking Is Your Health Care Culturally Competent and Does Your Health Care Suffer From Limited English Proficiency?
On Minding the Campus yesterday John Leo adds more. “One of the problems with Obamacare,” he writes,
is that both the House and Senate versions are larded with diversity-speak, including “underrepresented minorities” and “the underserved.” “Underepresented minorities,” means “no Asians need apply” and maybe no middle-easterners either. The context is federal money for medical schools.
“This is a nudge,” he continued, “— more like a shove, actually — in the direction of preferences,” and followed with a very good question, “Is it constitutional to dole out money to benefit certain racial and ethnic groups, but not others?”
Whether or not the courts “construe” this racialism as constitutional, voters shouldn’t. Perhaps one of these years voters will realize that what they want are candidates who not only talk the post-racial talk but walk the walk, as compared with what we have now: a president whose post-racial talk was “just words.”
