Dr. King requested simply that people be judged by the content of their character and not the color of their skin. It's been a long struggle through two generations. We are much more color blind than we were when I was born in the 1950s. Doors have been opened and fears replaced with amazing stories of triumphs and successes.
In the last few years there have been some questioning the "quotas", especially at college adminitions. There have been law suits presented by qualified white hopefuls who were not admitted due to quotas. Less qualified are placed ahead of others merely because of race.
This morning there's news from the Obama administration. He has declared that the gap that persists between "whites" and others needs to be corrected in everything from credit scores/home ownership to test scores/graduation rates. I recall a phrase I heard in George W's first inaugaration. He warned about the bigotry of lower expectations.
Paul Sperry posted on www.investors.com this morning:
"Under this broad interpretation of civil-rights law, virtually any organization can be held liable for race bias if it maintains a policy that negatively impacts one racial group more than another — even if it has no racist motive and applies the policy evenly across all groups."
What to make of this? Since this president rules without the trouble of creating laws through Congress, I think he'll mandate it, executive order.
It will be wonderful to see a bunch of whites playing basketball again.
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