Jennifer Gratz has a terrific essay today at the Pope Center. Read the whole thing, but note well her central point:
It is easy to get caught up in the intellectual arguments promoting the use of race to benefit some—while penalizing others—in order to promote “diversity.” Too often we refer to Bakke, Gratz, Grutter and, soon, Fisher, and think in the narrow terms of complicated legal wrangling. That is a mistake. It causes us to lose sight of the crucial fact that we are all individuals, with individual dreams and goals, not “representatives’ of this or that group.
All that anyone asks for is an equal opportunity to compete without having the immutable characteristic of skin color counted against her. It was wrong when being of a certain race kept you out of colleges in the past, but it’s just as wrong that being of a certain race gives you a big advantage today.
[blockquote]”Eliminating preferences would not be a radical move. Indeed, 27% of the population (a critical mass, if you will) currently lives in race-neutral states, each of which has elected to live by Dr. King’s exhortation to judge one another by the content of our character and not by the color of our skin.”[/blockquote]
That Jennifer Gratz, the Queen of White Privilege Grievance Mongering would attempt to hijack Dr. King in such a cancerous and blasphemous fashion is not only malevolent, but abominable.
This woman has no shame.
–Cobra