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Webb Untangled!

Senator James Webb, Democrat of Virginia, has done what too many Republicans are too afraid to do ? call for an outright end to the ?plethora of government-enforced diversity policies.?

In a truly remarkable OpEd in the Wall Street Journal, Webb writes that ?present-day diversity programs ... [have] expanded so far beyond their original purpose that they now favor anyone who does not happen to be white.? In promoting ?diversity,? Webb observes, policy makers have ?ignored ... disparities within America?s white cultures? and ?treated whites as a fungible monolith.?

?Where should we go from here?? he asks. And answers:

Beyond our continuing obligation to assist those African-Americans still in need, government-directed diversity programs should end.

I have not always agreed with Sen. Webb, especially when he abandoned his earlier opposition to racial favoritism to win favor with Democratic voters when he switched parties. But I am more than happy to welcome my Senator back to the compelling position on race that he abandoned.

Read his entire piece. If you can?t get to it online, go find and get yesterday?s Journal. It?s that good.

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