October 6, 2016

Diversity = Racism

Obama continues the racial polarization of the nation.

Yesterday Barack Obama ordered the implementation of diversity measures for national security agencies based on standards recommended by a Justice Department report for “Advancing Diversity in Law Enforcement.” The report highlighted the racial disparity within law enforcement when compared to the demographics of the communities which they served. The Justice Department and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission will engage with law enforcement across the country to host “Diversity Dialogues.” Clearly, this is part of Obama’s narrative about racism.

It was also learned on Wednesday that Obama is proposing a new racial category, that of “Middle Eastern,” be added to the official lexicon of races recognized by the U.S. Census Bureau. If the proposal is adopted, this new racial identity will be available for the 2020 census. One wonders if this is not a means of codifying Donald Trump as a racist for his desire to limit immigration from the Middle East. It would certainly make such restrictions more difficult to implement, because “race” would be a factor.

The continued push for the politically correct ideal of “diversity” is in reality a form of soft racism. If the means of determining whether or not an individual should be hired for a position within law enforcement is based upon that person’s race, then by definition that is racism. What makes America unique is our history of defining ourselves as a nation, however imperfect, not based upon some ethnic group, but upon a Constitution which recognizes all citizens as having equal rights under the law. This constant push by the Left to divide citizens into various racial categories and then pit them against one another by suggesting that if one group is prospering then it must be at the expense of another is absolutely un-American.

“Safe spaces” and “micro-aggressions” are merely the Left’s furthering of a divisive racial polarization of the American populous in order to fundamentally recreate the nation. The only way we as a nation get past racism is to reject the notion that our ethnic identifiers are primary and embrace as primary the ideals espoused by our Constitution. As Martin Luther King Jr. so eloquently stated, the dream and goal is that “[we] are judged not by the color of [our] skin, but by the content of [our] character.” How does highlighting our racial differences as primary move the country any closer to a goal of judging people not by their race but by their character and merit?

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