I’m sitting in my living room in the midst of making this, planning on simply opening up with an intro and some politics that I wanted to mention. Next, I get into a discussion with my liberal father about what we’ve heard about some folks trying to push a Department of Peace bill into the House, obviously because our executive government already does SO well under the bureaucracy we currently have. I express my distain for the idea, he responds with a comment about how “Republicans would rather just send the minorities to war for them,” I push back, “No, let’s just let them into college unqualified and for free,” he responds, “Yes we should.”
What is it that I am missing here? How is it possible that the country that liberals try to make equal for everyone and, yet, they allow for Affirmative Action?! Would I be so strongly against it if I were a minority? Probably not, but does that make more fair? Hell I bet blacks were more against slavery in the 1850′s than whites were, but that sure as hell doesn’t make it fair. Am I pretending that slavery is equal in fairness to getting into Yale? Of course not. I just find it ironic that we use the 14th Amendment to defend almost every equality since its establishment, how can’t it defend this one? It’s not Republican vs. Democrat, It’s not Fascist vs. Communist, it’s not black vs white, it’s not religion vs atheism, it’s nothing nearly that difficult. It’s a matter of Common Sense. I have a 95 average, Hispanic Joe Schmoe has a 93, I have a 1400, Joe has a 1300, I’m in eight clubs, Joe’s in six, I had better get into XYZ College before Mr. Schmoe does. That is nothing too hard to figure out.
My Favorite part of the whole thing is the kids who have a great-grandfather from Cuba and mark down Hispanic on their forms, their FAFSA, their SAT scores, their application. You ask them their ethnicity and their Italian, you check out their applications and their Hispanic. Brilliance of our equality for everyone country. I’m sorry, but there comes a time when the Majority has to win some issues, and I’m not even fighting for an inequality beneficial to the majority, I’m just asking for a balanced scale. Seems pretty fair in our modern and civilized world.
Is this unfair to argue for? Maybe. I understand that the history of minorities, especially African Americans, has been long and difficult. Now, thanks to leaders on both side of the aisle (Lincoln, Truman, Eisenhower, Johnson, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Clinton) we have come closer to an racially equal country than ever before. We all know how much Liberals dream of the utopian equal world, let’s take the next step and give something back to the majority of the country, those of European decent. That’s all I’m asking, for all the great things done in the past few decades, it seems like Common Sense to me.
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