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Townhall
Racial Quota
Punishment
Thomas Sowell
Nov 18, 2014
If anyone still has any doubt about the utter cynicism of the Obama
administration, a recent agreement between the federal government and
the Minneapolis Public Schools should open their eyes.
Under the Obama administration, both the Department of Education and
the Department of Justice have been leaning on public schools around
the country to reduce what they call the "disproportionate" numbers of
black male students who are punished for various offenses in schools.
Under an implicit threat of losing their federal subsidies, the
Minneapolis Public Schools have agreed to reduce the disparity in
punishment of black students by 25 percent by the end of this school
year, and then by 50 percent, 75 percent and finally 100 percent in
each of the following years. In other words, there are now racial quota
limits for punishment in the Minneapolis schools.
If we stop and think -- as old-fashioned as that may seem -- there is
not the slightest reason to expect black males to commit the same
number of offenses as Asian females or any other set of students.
When different groups of human beings have behaved differently in all
sorts of ways, in countries around the world, for thousands of years of
recorded history, why would we accept as dogma that the only reason one
set of students gets punished more than others is because the people
who are doing the punishing are picking on them?
Politically -- which is the way the Obama administration looks at
everything -- any time they can depict blacks as victims, and depict
themselves as their rescuers, that means an opportunity to get out the
black vote for Democrats.
On the surface, this may look like a favor to blacks. But only on the
surface...
Read the rest of the article at Townhall
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