Free Speech: A Concept

FREE SPEECH: A CONCEPT
by Robert T. Reilly

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http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-bake-sale-protest,0,5768770,print.story?coll=sns-ap-nation-headlines

Texas University Shuts Down Bake Sale

By Associated Press

September 24, 2003, 11:17 PM EDT

DALLAS -- Southern Methodist University shut down a bake sale Wednesday in which cookies were offered for sale at different prices, depending on the buyer's race or gender.

"This was not an issue about free speech," Tim Moore, director of the SMU student center, said in a story for Thursday's edition of The Dallas Morning News. "It was really an issue where we had a hostile environment being created."

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Oh really? And the jack-boot march by Nazis in the quiet, mostly Jewish community of Skokie, Illinois in the 70's was NOT CREATING A HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT? Hello??

Yet, THEY marched. And the ACLU was there to make sure they could march. Where's the ACLU here?

Once again, Curiously absent. I guess they're still busy defending NAMBLA (the North American Man Boy Love Association) and trying to get gag orders placed on the victims of rape and murder by members of NAMBLA.

But back to the story here, is there anyone left in the U.S. of sound mind and body who still thinks race should be a measurement of criteria in university admissions?

People, let's stop this madness. End racism. All around. Stop quotas. Affirmative action was an interesting experiment 40 years ago, and may even have been needed then. But it's an idea which has run its course. 40 years of it is enough. Time to move on, folks. JFK and LBJ would most certainly have told the country to move on by now. The program was never intended to go this far. Let's stop. No more blaming society for bad grades. There are countless, and I mean countless stories of people of all races and both genders getting into schools with the aid of nothing more than studying. If you want it bad enough, you'll find a way to do it.

I think the money they fund into AA could be better spent educating TV producers to write better and more inspiring characters in their programs, thereby creating better role models that ghetto kids can emulate.

Then we wouldn't need huge programs to give under privaleged kids a leg up. They'd be climbing the ladders of achievement all on their own. Chopping and hacking at the gates of academies and universities with swords of achievment in their hands and drive and inspiration in their souls.

MTV's constant bombardment of minority youth with examples of Hoods and Sluts, and the rewards that they can achieve by living that life, just isn't going to inspire anyone to be anything except a hip-hop drug dealer or his moll.

Eubonics, AA, and letting kids pass to the next grade when they can't read a sentence or add two numbers together is hurting no one except that student, and, of course, the entire population of the country, while we're at it. For, by continuing such programs of "special treatment", we not only inspire resentment among those who had to work hard to get where they are, but more importantly we only pass along the problems that should be solved at a much lower level, much earlier on in the child's life. It's not going to help a student who can't read or write to understand university level classes any better if he was admitted because he was born into a certain race that needed a quota filled in the name in diversity or funds for the school. Does diversity have to mean 'free pass"?