Fifty years too late, white men are figuring out they’re in trouble

By Michael Bertolone in The American Thinker

The left often attacks Tucker Carlson as a demagogue, but I find that he is mostly on target. This infuriates the Left, as his audience dwarfs their mainstream media outlets, including the sought-after younger viewer demographics.

This spells trouble for Democrats, who have been able to pull the wool over the eyes of younger voters for decades (myself included, in my teens and 20s, with a very brief relapse 10 years ago). Most young, college-educated people haven’t experienced the real world of taxes, inflation, affirmative action, and other challenges of adult life. The Biden administration’s incompetence and wokeness at all costs have thrown cold water on their idealism and naivety.

That said, it appears that Tucker has had an epiphany spurred on by a far-reaching “equity” policy introduced by Biden last week.

I welcome Carlson’s critique of this disgraceful and discriminatory policy, but it’s a little late to make a goal-line stand. Fifty-plus years too late. Racial and gender preference policy is now decades old, and Biden’s latest ‘equity’ policy is just the final result of this collective idiocy.

I submit that my hometown of Rochester, New York, was at the forefront of this movement in the 1960s. Then Rochester-headquartered Xerox Corp. was ‘woke’ well before it was fashionable. In fact, founding CEO Joseph C. Wilson directed Xerox managers to hire unqualified minorities in 1968. Remember the Left’s canard that told us that all affirmative action recipients are qualified? Wilson’s memo disproves that lie.

Extreme “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” policies were a long time in the making, much like a slow-moving train wreck. In 1978, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, ruling that using race as a criterion in admissions decisions in higher education was constitutionally permissible even though rigid quotas were illegal. This provided a convenient workaround for admissions officers to give disproportionate weight to race as long as it was considered among other criteria.

Then, in 2003, the Court revisited racial preferences in college admissions in Grutter v. Bollinger. It’s almost laughable today to read what Justice O’Connor stated near the end of the majority opinion: “We expect that 25 years from now, the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary to further the interest” in student body diversity.

Fifty years too late, white men are figuring out they’re in trouble - American Thinker

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