Obama’s Presidency and the End of Affirmative Action? | FrontPage Magazine
By Jack Kerwick On June 14, 2013
For many of us, Barack Obama’s presidency has been anything but an occasion for rejoicing. From its beginnings to the present, and particularly during the last couple of months with the eruption of one scandal after the other, it has been like a dark cloud hanging over the nation’s head.
Still, this dark cloud does indeed have a silver lining.
Five years ago, Obama and his supporters (on both the left and right) assured the country that his election promised to alleviate interracial tensions. Most people bought this line. Some of us, though, knew that it was just that—a line. Moreover, we knew that not only would race relations not improve, they would actually worsen as the usual suspects in the Racism Industrial Complex (RIC), ever fearful that a black president would undermine their heretofore tried and true narrative of perpetual white oppression and black suffering, accelerated their cries of “racism.”
On the other hand, some of us also knew that RIC agents’ fears were not unfounded. For however frequently and loudly they screamed “racism,” the presence of a black president—and a black president with the name of Barack Hussein Obama, to boot—could very well, eventually, suck the life out of their template.
An NBC/Wall Street Journal poll taken last week suggests that maybe, just maybe, this is beginning to occur.
The poll found that the public’s support for affirmative action is at an all-time low.
Forty-five percent of respondents maintain that this race-centered preferential treatment policy is still necessary in order to protect racial minorities. But, for the first time, an equal number of people think that it is unjust inasmuch as it discriminates against whites.
The significance of this can’t be overstated. Two decades ago, 61 percent of Americans supported affirmative action.
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Still, this dark cloud does indeed have a silver lining.
Five years ago, Obama and his supporters (on both the left and right) assured the country that his election promised to alleviate interracial tensions. Most people bought this line. Some of us, though, knew that it was just that—a line. Moreover, we knew that not only would race relations not improve, they would actually worsen as the usual suspects in the Racism Industrial Complex (RIC), ever fearful that a black president would undermine their heretofore tried and true narrative of perpetual white oppression and black suffering, accelerated their cries of “racism.”
On the other hand, some of us also knew that RIC agents’ fears were not unfounded. For however frequently and loudly they screamed “racism,” the presence of a black president—and a black president with the name of Barack Hussein Obama, to boot—could very well, eventually, suck the life out of their template.
An NBC/Wall Street Journal poll taken last week suggests that maybe, just maybe, this is beginning to occur.
The poll found that the public’s support for affirmative action is at an all-time low.
Forty-five percent of respondents maintain that this race-centered preferential treatment policy is still necessary in order to protect racial minorities. But, for the first time, an equal number of people think that it is unjust inasmuch as it discriminates against whites.
The significance of this can’t be overstated. Two decades ago, 61 percent of Americans supported affirmative action.
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