There are posts all over the internet about Elizabeth Warren and her claim to Cherokee heritage. I hear a lot of talk about how she lied, and how that lie may end up costing her an election. It may, it may not. Politicians lie, everyone knows it, and they still elect them.
What I don't hear people talking about, is why someone would falsify a claim to minority status.
I have your answer, and I'm very surprised more people aren't talking about it. The Answer: Affirmative Action (no no, it's not 42).
Affirmative Action may have had it's place, but the only thing it does now is single out certain races/genders/religions, and hands them special benefits. Not the same benefits, special benefits. All while assuring these Affirmative Action candidates that, without this policy, they couldn't possibly be on an equal playing field. Maybe the left is right. Maybe racism IS alive and well, and it's best representation is Affirmative Action.
Why would Ms. Warren claim Cherokee Heritage? Maybe because in doing so she got a better student loan interest rate. Maybe because it made it more likely that she'd get that job at Harvard. Maybe she just wanted to have the same shot all those Affirmative Action candidates get. If it turns out that she lied, which by all facts to this point it looks like she did, this isn't an excuse. But surely we can start seeing Affirmative Action as a roadblock to the "colorblind" society Martin Luther King, Jr. envisioned.
Now we move on to the latest Breitbart scoop, that an author biography of President Barack Obama stated he was Kenyan born. I am NOT a Birther. I have no reason to believe that President Obama is not a U.S. Citizen. We are hearing this was a fact checking error. Well, it was a 17 year long fact checking error, and if a literary agent can make an error that big, maybe they shouldn't be a literary agent. I have also heard numerous authors state that author biographies are always given to the authors to proof. I have reason to believe that President Obama told people he was Kenyan born, because it would have opened up a bunch of special benefits to him. Are his college transcripts sealed because they might prove he applied to Ivy League Universities as a Foreign Student? (which, by the way, opens up a whole other set of special benefits.) And if that's the case, he lied. And if he lie, once again we have to ask why, and the answer I'm coming up with is...Affirmative Action.
How sad is it, that people feel they have to lie just to have the same options as other people? How do we not see that this policy not only erodes our culture, makes people believe they can't really obtain their goals on their own merit, and singles out races for special treatment, but it encourages people to be less than honest in the hopes of obtaining something more than they would get otherwise?
What I don't hear people talking about, is why someone would falsify a claim to minority status.
I have your answer, and I'm very surprised more people aren't talking about it. The Answer: Affirmative Action (no no, it's not 42).
Affirmative Action may have had it's place, but the only thing it does now is single out certain races/genders/religions, and hands them special benefits. Not the same benefits, special benefits. All while assuring these Affirmative Action candidates that, without this policy, they couldn't possibly be on an equal playing field. Maybe the left is right. Maybe racism IS alive and well, and it's best representation is Affirmative Action.
Why would Ms. Warren claim Cherokee Heritage? Maybe because in doing so she got a better student loan interest rate. Maybe because it made it more likely that she'd get that job at Harvard. Maybe she just wanted to have the same shot all those Affirmative Action candidates get. If it turns out that she lied, which by all facts to this point it looks like she did, this isn't an excuse. But surely we can start seeing Affirmative Action as a roadblock to the "colorblind" society Martin Luther King, Jr. envisioned.
Now we move on to the latest Breitbart scoop, that an author biography of President Barack Obama stated he was Kenyan born. I am NOT a Birther. I have no reason to believe that President Obama is not a U.S. Citizen. We are hearing this was a fact checking error. Well, it was a 17 year long fact checking error, and if a literary agent can make an error that big, maybe they shouldn't be a literary agent. I have also heard numerous authors state that author biographies are always given to the authors to proof. I have reason to believe that President Obama told people he was Kenyan born, because it would have opened up a bunch of special benefits to him. Are his college transcripts sealed because they might prove he applied to Ivy League Universities as a Foreign Student? (which, by the way, opens up a whole other set of special benefits.) And if that's the case, he lied. And if he lie, once again we have to ask why, and the answer I'm coming up with is...Affirmative Action.
How sad is it, that people feel they have to lie just to have the same options as other people? How do we not see that this policy not only erodes our culture, makes people believe they can't really obtain their goals on their own merit, and singles out races for special treatment, but it encourages people to be less than honest in the hopes of obtaining something more than they would get otherwise?
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