The Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada, working in tandem with an outfit called the \u201cWestern States Center,\u201d has compiled a new report dubbed \u201cFacing Race: 2009 Legislative Report Card on Racial Equality.\u201d<\/p>\n
The handout awards Carson City\u2019s Democrat-dominated Assembly \u201can A-plus for 100 percent support for racial equity bills,\u201d while exiling the state Senate to the racial-equity outhouse with a grade of \u201cD-plus\u201d — and even more vociferously condemning Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons with a grade of \u201cF-minus for signing only 43 percent of racial equity bills.\u201d<\/p>\n
Good heavens! An \u201cF-minus\u201d? Worse than an \u201cF\u201d? Did even Orville Faubus, George Wallace, or Lester Maddox — famous segregationist Southern governors of the 1950s and \u201960s — ever receive an \u201cF-minus\u201d on race relations and equality?<\/p>\n
If Jim Gibbons is worse than the guys who famously stood in schoolhouse doors to stop black children from entering, or who handed out autographed axe-handles purportedly for their constituents to use in bashing the heads of civil rights protestors, imagine how bad things in Nevada have now become!<\/p>\n
Remember the bills — signed by Gov. Gibbons last year after being approved by such fellow \u201cF-minus\u201d legislators as Assemblyman Ty Cobb and state Senators Barbara Cegavske, Warren Hardy, and Maurice Washington — that succeeded in re-segregating Nevada\u2019s schools, requiring non-white children to attend separate facilities without indoor plumbing or central heat? Remember when the \u201cwhites only\u201d signs went back up on the public restrooms and water fountains? When the state declared that \u201cemployees of color\u201d would only be paid five-eighths what whites make for the same work, that mixed-race couples could now be barred from marrying in this state and even arrested for holding hands in public, when Nevadans of Hispanic descent were forbidden from speaking Spanish or celebrating Cinco de Mayo?<\/p>\n
Well … no. Because none of those things ever happened, of course.<\/p>\n
In fact, \u201cPLAN\u201d and the \u201cWestern States Alliance\u201d are pretty up-front about their redistributive, far-left goals, aimed at promoting \u201cgreater racial and social justice\u201d through bigger government and higher taxes.<\/p>\n
This \u201cstudy\u201d — and even the timing of its release, as newspapers and TV stations traditionally scramble for \u201chard news\u201d in the week before Christmas — was clearly designed to generate more of the familiar \u201cNevada really sucks\u201d headlines that liberals love to wave around as they demand more tax dollars for more government \u201cprograms\u201d … seldom mentioning that the source of all the supposed \u201cdiscontent,\u201d these supposed \u201cunmet needs,\u201d is their own ginned-up outrage, which can be downright hilarious when you read the fine print.<\/p>\n
All those \u201cfailing grades\u201d in \u201cracial equity\u201d? It turns out the report\u2019s authors held it against the legislators that they took no action on AB155, which would have required that even more precious classroom time be spent on \u201cmulticultural education.\u201d<\/p>\n
So black and Hispanic kids spent their time learning grammar and arithmetic right alongside the white kids, and this gang claims that \u201churts racial equity\u201d?!<\/p>\n
Cattle-ranching and responsible gun ownership are part of a “culture” probably unfamiliar to many urban schoolchildren. Did the planned “multicultural curriculum” include sections designed to increase appreciation among the young of those “cultures” and the discrimination they face — including visits to a shooting range and a working cattle ranch? No. But they included making seven-year-old white kids whose ancestors first came to America in 1912 stand up and “apologize for slavery” to some randomly selected black kids, didn’t it? <\/p>\n
Nevada was in a recession in 2009 — not a great time to fund new programs — but the report writers took points away from Nevada lawmakers because AB269, which would have provided \u201cfree,\u201d tax-paid medical care to all children who do not reside with a parent or legal guardian, died in committee.<\/p>\n
\u201cYoung people of color make up a disproportionate share of the homeless,\u201d you see.<\/p>\n
Young people of color also drink a disproportionate share of grape flavored soda pop, as anyone who\u2019s ever driven a soft drink delivery route can tell you. Is it therefore racist not to give away free grape soda pop — or to charge the same price for grape as for lemon-lime, instead of mandating a government grape-soda-pop subsidy for the “disadvantaged”?<\/p>\n
And finally there were AB245, which would have required voters to show some identification at the polls (no action taken); SB 52, the \u201cREAL ID\u201d Act, which passed the Senate but received no vote in the Assembly, and AB347, which would have placed limits on social services for non-U.S. citizens, another proposal which was stillborn in the 2009 Legislature.<\/p>\n
Even though none of these bill drafts became law, the report\u2019s authors hated these proposals and gave lawmakers (including \u201cF-minus\u201d state Sen. Maurice Washington, whose party affiliation apparently trumps the fact he happens to be black) bad grades for supporting them on the theory that making a voter prove who he or she is before voting \u201cdisproportionately hits low-income, communities of color, handicapped, and elderly voters the hardest\u201d; that a national ID card would \u201cdisproportionately affect communities of color, Native American communities, immigrants and refugees,\u201d and because cutting off various welfare benefits to non-citizens would harm Nevada\u2019s immigrant population, which (PLAN tells us) grew to 19.4 percent of the state\u2019s residents in 2007.<\/p>\n
Did it really? Might the report\u2019s authors be including illegal aliens, whose access to welfare programs certainly ought to be cut off?<\/p>\n
If demanding that someone show a \u201cnational ID card\u201d before they\u2019re allowed to open a bank account or board a plane or do anything else Americans have traditionally been free to do without government \u201cpermission\u201d is a bad and unconstitutional requirement that limits our freedoms and civil rights (just to take one example of a failed proposal to which the report\u2019s authors took exception) then who the heck cares if it \u201cdisproportionately affects communities of color,\u201d or anyone else? Isn\u2019t it equally unconstitutional for white people? Shouldn\u2019t Americans of all colors pull together to oppose any unconstitutional enactment?<\/p>\n
This insistence on dividing Americans up into various supposedly oppressed minorities and then reviling and condemning as \u201cracist\u201d those who don\u2019t go along with any and every new Politically Correct spending scheme, no matter how far-fetched, because their failure to hand over more loot \u201cdisproportionately affects\u201d some group or other — left-handed Pacific islanders? — would be hilarious if it didn\u2019t frequently succeed in keeping us at each other\u2019s throats, which is precisely what the politics of victimization requires.<\/p>\n
Nevada\u2019s governors and state lawmakers — yes, including the Republicans — may be imperfect creatures in many ways. But they\u2019re not racists.<\/p>\n
Throw this one in the circular file with all those direct-mail holiday fliers, breathe a sigh of relief, and let\u2019s get back to celebrating the season of good fellowship for all … regardless of color.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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