‘My Brother’s Keeper’
A new initiative for men of color.
Big government is central to leftist ideology. Government must supply your every need, unless you’re wealthy or white, in which case it will take from you and give to another. In that spirit, Barack Obama announced another new racially discriminatory federal program called “My Brother’s Keeper,” which seeks to increase “opportunities” for “young men of color” via $200 million in federal spending and a “task force” to identify best practices. And here we thought profiling was passé. As National Review’s Roger Clegg asks, “[W]hat kind of message is given to blacks and Latinos when they are told that their young men are so problematic that they have to be singled out for special help to ensure that they don’t screw up?”