Achievement Charity

By Michael Bertolone January 22, 2018

A common complaint heard from “diverse” employment candidates is that there are few people who “look like me” in the organization. It has been fifty-plus years since Dr. Martin Luther King’s I have a dream speech, and now the equal opportunity gold standard is apparently the “look like” test. It’s a sad commentary that in the 21st Century we are as tribalized and Balkanized as ever, thanks in no small measure to the diversity industry.

The U.S. Justice Department is preparing to investigate Harvard University regarding affirmative action in college admissions. Unfortunately, it has exclusively centered upon the classification of race, to the exclusion of gender and social class. Specifically, this investigation centers on alleged discrimination against Asians in Harvard University’s admissions process.

To effectively combat discrimination in all forms and live up to the true promise of the Fourteenth Amendment, all three major offenders must be attacked: affirmative action, as well as nepotism and cronyism...........The evidence is clear. Affirmative action, nepotism, and cronyism lower the selection standards of whatever they touch. In a highly-competitive global market, we can no longer afford the appearance of “achievement charity”, as the late sociologist Martin L. Gross once pointed out. The sooner the ‘inclusion through exclusion’ game ends, the better...... To Read More.....
 
My Take - There will always be corruption in the work place. Nepotism and cronyism is now and will always be with us. That's just human nature and no amount of legislation can fix it. As we've seen with all these different affirmative action schemes - it just makes it worse. 

 The thing that needs to be done is just get government out of the way and let people hire whomever they choose. Will that hurt some? Of course, but those groups such as Italians, Jews, and Asians who came here and were discriminated against didn't sit and whine to the government. They stated their own businesses, educated their children, worked hard in their communities and most importantly - they maintained strong family ties. That's the solution, not government interference controlled by a bunch of bureaucrats, which is in reality cronyism by favored groups imposed by government.

As for nepotism? Take a look at all the children and grandchildren who are Hollywood stars and those in Washington DC who come from political families - and tell me there's no nepotism among them. Taking care of family is a biological imperative - get over it!