On Race, Obama Doesn’t Practice What He Preaches

Welcoming Pacific Rim leaders to the Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation summit at a dinner in Honolulu Saturday night, President Obama emitted a string of platitudes about “diversity” that the policies and practices of his administration contradict and undermine every day of the week.

Although “Hawaii is not perfect,” he said, but it “comes about as close as you’ll come to a true melting pot of cultures….” Here, he continued, “we’re a single ‘ohana — one family. We remember that beneath the surface, behind all the different languages and some very long names, we all share the same hopes, the same struggles and the same aspirations.”

Really? Obama really thinks that Hawaii has taken various cultures and melted them down into “one family” … and that that’s a good thing? Funny, then, that so far as I can tell he never objected when a school system there fought vigorously to restrict admission to certain members of that family, only those who had “a drop of Hawaiian blood.” The issue was resolved in 2007, the Associated Press reported, only when the school agreed to pay a settlement to have the case dropped.

HONOLULU (AP) — A private school system has reached a settlement with a white student who was denied admission because he isn’t a Native Hawaiian, ending a case pending before the U.S. Supreme Court.

The settlement between the unidentified student and the Kamehameha Schools system ends the four-year-old lawsuit. Terms of the settlement were not disclosed.

The student, who has since gone to college, claimed that the 120-year-old Kamehameha Schools violated civil rights law by excluding applicants who cannot prove Hawaiian ancestry.

The school, which has 6,700 students at schools on three islands, admits qualified Native Hawaiian students, with non-Hawaiians getting in only if openings are available. But only one in eight eligible Hawaiian applicants is admitted, effectively excluding non-Hawaiians.

A sharply divided 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the admissions policy on an 8-7 vote in 2006.

Obama presides over a government rife with polices, practices, regulations, etc., that treat some members of the American family better and some worse because of their race or ethnicity, all of which are supported and defended by him and his party.
And why? What is the point? If “beneath the surface, behind all the different languages and some very long names,” we are all exactly alike, why not treat us all the same?

 

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  1. CaptDMO November 14, 2011 at 10:27 pm | | Reply

    Does this mean that Pacific Rim-Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation trade partners will no longer be producing substandard nuts, bolts, and tools from inferior steel, for export to US markets aimed at “home owner” self repair of otherwise “durable goods”?
    Or did the President apologize for “lazy” US consumers (Damned Yankees) trying to repair things assumed to be worth repairing, and not simply throwing the substandard steel back into the crucible, and buying another equally substandard replacement piece of crap from “off shore”, that “ought to be good for a couple years”.
    (sigh) Alas, poor Toastmaster, I knew him well.
    Gee… no, “GE” CFL bulbs. Wait, MANDATORY importation of more mercury for the bio-cycle ? From WHERE? For HOW MUCH?

  2. mikee November 17, 2011 at 2:34 am | | Reply

    If “beneath the surface, behind all the different languages and some very long names,” we are all exactly alike, why not treat us all the same?

    Because when we are treated as individuals before the law, the government cannot pick winners and losers, based on forcing individual citizens into arbitrary groups that must compete with each other to be on the correct end of government largesse and punishment.

  3. Engineer Dad November 21, 2011 at 2:06 am | | Reply

    While perfection is the enemy of the good; likewise, diversity is the enemy of equality.

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