Maybe it's time to take a close look and reevaluate these things, but how about we let a bunch of African-American and other minority scholars and intellectuals be in on the deciding. Jim Webb just looks like another white guy who thinks he knows best for everyone. . . duh.
Va senator calls for ending diversity programs
By BOB LEWIS, AP Political Writer
RICHMOND, Va. – Virginia Sen. Jim Webb called for ending government-run diversity programs in a newspaper column Friday, saying they have disadvantaged struggling whites and hurt the cause of racial harmony.
Webb wrote an op-ed column in Friday's Wall Street Journal that said a "plethora of government-enforced diversity policies have marginalized many white workers. The time has come to cease the false arguments and allow every American the benefit of a fair chance at the future."
Webb's press secretary, Jessica Smith, said Friday that the senator felt the column speaks for itself and that he would not comment further.
As an author, Webb expressed misgivings about how affirmative action programs have grown beyond their initial intent in two of his books, "Born Fighting" and "A Time to Fight."
Federal diversity programs now primarily benefit new immigrants over whites and even black Americans, their original beneficiaries, wrote Webb, D-Va.
"In an odd historical twist that all Americans see but few can understand, many programs allow recently arrived immigrants to move ahead of similarly situated whites whose families have been in the country for generations," he wrote.
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I like the idea of Jim Webb's cracker ass deciding things are OK for black folks now so we can wind down the programs when what he's really saying is that they've gone too far. Any teabagger would get his inference: "hey, them coloreds are getting too damn equal... time we knocked 'em back a peg before we end up with a black pres... dammit!"
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