Carey On... The Big Tainted Eye
Other than Governor Engler, Michigan is starved for strong Republicans. We do have a rising star, though, in Congressman Mike Rogers. He’s got a future—maybe a very high one.
He’s well spoken, which means he’s smart and comes from a good family. He’s a former FBI agent and Army Ranger, so bravery isn’t in question, moral or physical.
Often when law-enforcement guys are elected into office, they tend to go soft on their conservative principles, but Rogers never did. Yet, on “Off the Record” with Tim Skubick, speaking of the recent Supreme Court crash about using skin color to “balance” diversity on our college campuses, Rogers surprised me by deflating the ball he’s carried so well till now.
Ward Connerly is the nation’s driving force for making all Americans equal in the eyes of the law. This elegant black gentleman has championed successful ballot initiatives in California and Washington State that prevent our government’s choosing between us by skin color.
Connerly has come to Michigan to spearhead a ballot initiative here. “The Supreme Court is the highest court in the land. They are not the highest authority in the land.”
The “highest authority” is you, me, the voting citizen. We can override the Supreme Court and stop our state government from deliberately picking black over yellow, brown over white, red over peach, brunette over blond.
Amazingly, the Michigan Republican party has come out against Connerly and the ballot initiative. In a ridiculous twist, they’re claiming the movement will “divide” us.
More than dividing us by skin tone? Come on!
They’re afraid to irritate racist minorities and white liberals who squeal loudly. Now that they have power in the House and Senate, they’re more scared of losing it than they are of using it.
Several courageous Michigan Republicans are defying the party line. They stood with Connerly in the State Capital rotunda to support the petition drive. I was there, because I’m with them all the way.
Mike Rogers, sadly, isn’t. “If you have two equal candidates and you need to round out your membership to the University with diversity, you can take (race) as a factor,” he said. “I think the court decision was right.”
Two conclusions are equally disheartening: either he’s toeing the wimpy party line, or he really believes what he said.
All right, let’s pretend a college has two candidates of equal qualifications, and both are black. How will the college choose between them? There must be a way, right? Color obviously isn’t it.
Let colleges use the same method to choose between candidates of different colors, without using color. If they can choose between two blacks, they can do it colorblind.
That’s because there’s no such thing as “two equal candidates.” We are not widgets. We are human beings.
“(The decision) says you can take race as a factor,” Rogers said, ”That’s not a quota.”
No, Mike, it’s worse. It lets our colleges freely sweep qualified white and Asian candidates out of the way. It means there’s even less chance of poor qualified whites and yellows’ getting into college over well-off blacks, browns and reds.
At least with quotas, we had a percentage to check. Now, whites and yellows can be merrily cast aside and colleges don’t even have to hide behind quotas.
“Diversity on campuses is a good thing,” Rogers went on. “America is a diverse place and I think campuses should reflect that.”
His comparison is sour at its base. America is diverse naturally, because of the every-day dynamic energy of individual human beings---immigration, intermarriage, adoption, wide ranges of intelligence, talent, and personal drive.
Rogers is sticking up for artificial diversity—formed like a jigsaw puzzle, with a giant tainted eye constantly scanning the pieces, forcing rearrangement based on some faulty ideal. It will never really reflect America, because it’s fake.
Artificial diversity is a lie. Like all lies, it makes decent people mad.
I’m one of them. I’m circulating the petition, so Michigan voters can decide whether to free our state of the Big Tainted Eye. Anyone who wants to sign, call me. I’m in the book.