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POST-RACIAL? Sen. James Webb (D-VA): Diversity and the Myth of White Privilege: America still owe?

By Glenn Reynolds

POST-RACIAL? Sen. James Webb (D-VA): Diversity and the Myth of White Privilege: America still owes a debt to its black citizens, but government programs to help all ‘people of color’ are unfair. They should end. “Forty years ago, as the United States experienced the civil rights movement, the supposed monolith of White Anglo-Saxon Protestant dominance served as the whipping post for almost every debate about power and status in America. After a full generation of such debate, WASP elites have fallen by the wayside and a plethora of government-enforced diversity policies have marginalized many white workers. The time has come to cease the false arguments and allow every American the benefit of a fair chance at the future. . . . In an odd historical twist that all Americans see but few can understand, many programs allow recently arrived immigrants to move ahead of similarly situated whites whose families have been in the country for generations. These programs have damaged racial harmony. And the more they have grown, the less they have actually helped African-Americans, the intended beneficiaries of affirmative action as it was originally conceived.” Somebody should ask Obama and Holder what they think about this.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on July 23, 2010 (boomark / email).