As Lee Corso Would Say,,,
"Not so fast my friends."
Now hold on, and hear me out. Let's just step back, calm down and take a logical look at this. When I first learned of Ward Connelly some 10-15 years ago, I could not fathom how this guy could be running the smack he runs, but that was before I actually lived in California and saw the social, work and race relations first hand. The race relations here differ from the South, which has been my frame of reference for 30+ years; although it grates on me when people not from the south stereo-type the south as still exactly like it was in the 1950s. That said, there is a difference in Cali and the south; i can't quantify it, but it's different.
This is Ward Connelly's frame of reference folks. He's in California, not Alabama/Mississippi/etc heart of the old confederacy. Next, lets look at California. Do you really think people are denied opportunity here? With all the non-whites I see from the bottom to the top of the work world strata , I don't see it. Now James Merridith(? i think that's the guy. the black Mississipian former civil rights activist or first to go to Ole MS?),, I am more puzzled by him than Ward Connelly.
Third, I don't think Ward is professing that he got where he got on his own. Did he say that? I've never heard him say that. Where did that come from? (rhetorical question. I grew up in the south, so I understand the psychology behind that accusation.) All he is saying is remove references to race when it comes to applications and stat keeping.
Also, I don't think Ward is a lapdog for some grander conspiracy. Although you may disagree with the Ward Conelly's, the Allen Key's, the J.C. Watts, the guy with the book worm round glass and mustache,, etc, these are some highly intelligent mugz, just like on the other side of the ledger the Leo Terrells, the Jessies, the Sharptons, Charlie Rangal, etc, fundamentally speaking. We may clown them depending on our particular beliefs,, but these guys are no "yazza, me too boss" hat-in-hand n-words(the conservatives). They are all very outspoken, class A personality types or they wouldn't be were they are.
Here's what I would do; institute his proposal in Los Angeles California on a 20 year trial basis, nowhere else, and see how it goes. Drop all racial data/stats taking, WITH THE PROVISO THAT A SPECIAL CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE (like the Warren Committee, etc) will come back in 10 years, say, and the federal government will perform an audit of sorts on all state of California institutions to see what the racial make-up is. If it is mostly white and the state of California is 70% non-white, review complaints of discrimination and investigate and if there is evidence of flagrant discrimination, then bring back the rules, slap a federal court order on Cali like the feds did/are doing on the southern states for the last 40-50 years.
Lastly, in a place like California, or in predominantly black cities in the south(Birmingham for example), when non-whites or blacks(in the south) become the overwhelming majority, should efforts be made to assure that there is representative white or non-black representation, aka "diversity"? Is that another reason race data should be kept?
