<p>My position is this:</p>
<p>Everyone, except blacks, wishes to ignore the profound unequal treatment that causes so much pain today, to now demand “equal treatment” for all Americans. It is completely unrealistic, and immoral. It is indeed contrary to all of nature-- contrary to the way of the entire universe.</p>
<p>What has happened here is that a certain person, Mr. White, had grandparents who formed a certain group called America. By its rules, America allowed Mr. White’s grandparents to destroy the grandparents of Mr. Black. Mr. Black’s grandparents wanted to leave, but America demanded they stay. America even enforced its demands with weapons. By the authority of America, Mr. White’s grandparents destroyed Mr. Black’s grandparents future, taking their considerable wealth, and passing much of it back to America. Both Mr. White’s grandparents and America, enjoyed Mr. Black’s grandparent’s wealth. They shared it with one another, and by their own rules they excluded Mr. Black’s grandparents from ever seeing it. Mr. Black’s grandparents wanted to develop additional wealth and start anew, but America used weapons to deny them this right. Because of this, both America and Mr. White’s grandparents grew healthy and strong.</p>
<p>As a result of this ill treatment, Mr. Black’s grandparent’s suffered incalculable deprivation. They became sick and uneducated because they did not have the resources to access healthcare and education. And America rigged the rules so that only people with the name “White” could ever gain healthcare and education. Indeed, it was punishable by imprisonment to even allow someone named “Black” to ever improve themselves by education. So Mr. Black’s grandparents languished away in physical and emotional poverty, hopelessness and bitterness.</p>
<p>Mr. White’s grandparents gave birth to Mr. White’s parents, and then passed all of Mr. Black’s grandparent’s wealth to them. America agreed that Mr. White’s parents would receive all the legal benefits of Mr. White’s grandparents, not because of merit, but simply because Mr. White’s parents had the name “White”. Meanwhile, Mr. Black’s grandparents gave birth to Mr. Black’s parents, then passed to them all of their poverty, deprivation, hopelessness, and bitterness. America and Mr. White’s parents agreed that Mr. Black’s parents would receive NO legal benefits, not because of anything Mr. Black’s parents did, but simply because Mr. Black’s parents had the name “Black”. Meanwhile, Mr. Yellow’s parents, and Mr. Offwhite’s parents immigrated to America. The rules, while not as kind to them as they were to Mr. White’s parents, still allowed them to make progress. Seeing this and enduring everything else, Mr. Black’s parents became so filled with hopelessness and bitterness, they did not even think of beginning anew. They simply could not fathom it.</p>
<p>Mr. White’s parents grew even healthier. They also used Mr. Black grandparent’s wealth to build schools for themselves. They invested part of it and became richer. Sitting proudly on Mr. Black’s grandparent’s wealth, they laughed at Mr. Black’s parents, laughing at the poverty and ignorance. They called Mr. Black’s parents ugly names, printed jokes about them, publicly scorned them. It added shame and even self-hatred to Mr. Black’s parents’ hopelessness and bitterness.</p>
<p>Mr. White is finally born, and he receives all the wealth and privilege passed to him from his parents. He receives the best schools, the best nutrition. He receives the best clothes. He gets to own most things. He controls commerce. Like his parents, and grandparents before him, he gets to lead America. On the other hand when Mr. Black is born, he receives all the poverty and ignorance of his parents and grandparents. He receives all of their hopelessness, and bitterness. He also receives the ridicule of Mr. White. Indeed, referring to the progress of Messrs Yellow and Offwhite, Mr. White claims Mr. Black is poor and ignorant because of nature. And since he controls the press, Mr. White prints books to get this word out. He also prints holy books where even God looks, unsurprisingly, like Mr. White. It all increases the hopelessness and bitterness of Mr. Black.</p>
<p>Mr. White produces a son. Whiteson receives all the wealth and privilege of his ancestors. Messrs Yellow and Offwhite also produce sons. They receive the benefits afforded by the system that emerged of Mr. Black's grandparent's wealth, and the accumulated financial and/or cultural wealth of their ancestors. They are all eager to learn, to capitalize on opportunity, to make progress, just as they have always seen in their ancestors. Since Whiteson controls everything, he finally allows America to allow Mr. Black freedom to gain wealth for himself. But Mr. Black cannot see the use of it because his parents could not see it. He fathers Blackson, and gives the boy the same ol’ hopelessness and scorn he received from his ancestors.</p>
<p>Whiteson, Yellowson, Offwhiteson all have children and pass to them the same hope they have always had. They all look at Blackson and think themselves justified in blaming him for his condition. Blackson has children, and for them its the same old poverty and despair their ancestors have always received. A son of Whiteson, now in control of America, decides to throw a few dollars to the sons of Blackson because he knows a little of the history and thinks “something” should be done, but other sons of Whiteson take as much of these dollars as anyone else. Indeed, even some of the sons of Yellowson and Offwhiteson get these dollars, generally leaving the sons of Blackson exactly where they have always been. Yet the sons of Whiteson grow angry at the lack of progress, and blame the sons of Blackson even more.</p>
<p>The sons continue producing sons. And all of them continue moving forward, except for the sons of Blackson—generally speaking. Inexplicably, out of a hundred of Blackson’s children, one of them has a hope that is similar to that held by the children of Whiteson, Yellowson, and Offwhiteson. This son of Blackson works within an environment of profound hopelessness, and yet he is still able to hang in there to produce creations that are comparable to the others. He is responsible for Blackson Culture. He produces art, music, literature, he even creates technology here and there. But he is also responsible for producing gangsta rap and a host of other atrocities that come out of his bitterness. Almost all of this, including the rap, is exploited by the sons of Whiteson.</p>
<p>The sons produce more sons. Whiteson Culture, Yellowson Culture, Offwhiteson Culture are filled with traditional hope, due to the inherited capital of the past. Blackson Culture is still consumed largely by the same profound hopelessness that has gripped Black ancestors since the day Mr. White’s grandparents destroyed the grandparents of Mr. Black. Yet inexplicably, a son out of a hundred Blacksons, despite laboring in profound hopelessness, still has the guts to hang in there and produce performances comparable to the others. He has a great burden to carry, due to the fact his name is “Black”, and this burden slows him down. But he still refuses to give in to the hopelessness that is attached to Blackson Culture.</p>
<p>Whitesons, Yellowsons, and Offwhitesons claim that treating him as an “equal” takes place when they refuse to hold him down as has been the case for his entire ancestry. They overlook the fact that due to his Blackson heritage (a heritage that came to him due to the execrable behavior of America working with Mr. White’s grandparents, and due to all the sorrow that they heaped on The Blacks since the beginning), he is still carrying a tremendous weight that slows him down. I think a truly equal treatment takes place in one of two ways:</p>
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<li><p>(Forgetting for the moment about what is practical, and seeing only the moral concept at play here) If true equality is to be reached, then all the horror that was heaped on The Blacks must now be heaped precisely on the Whites, Yellows and Offwhites, and the resulting wealth, prorated by group, should be given to The Blacks. If this does not take place, then “equality” is an utter sham.</p></li>
<li><p>The Blacks come to think of themselves as so much a part of America, and they come to set their sights so much on progress and achievement, they no longer feel the pain and longing of the past, and are willing to forgive it. In this way, a repair of the past (reparations) can take place.</p></li>
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<p>I advocate a national effort to achieve number 2 above. I have seen for myself, in just one generation, that education can make this possible. I think the entire nation has a debt to itself to bring this option to fruition, since the progress of America rests on wealth stolen from The Blacks. I think The Blacks have a debt to themselves to make it happen, since they are the ones who suffer most. But while I have seen it take place on a small scale, it will take very much time to promote it nationwide.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, as work takes place in the communities, that same one-out-of-a-hundred Blacksons is going to be striving, inexplicably, against the odds, doing well in school, and pulling down great performances despite the burdens against him due not because of anything he deserves, but due merely to his name being “Black”. And since Whitesons, Yellowsons, and Offwhitesons do not possess his burden, there will be many more of them performing at least as well he. What of this kid? Do we just throw him to the trash heap of chance, a kid who is pouring it on when there really is no reason to? Or do we pay special attention to him? I think the only honorable thing to do is to be sure to consider his accomplishments in view of his Blackson history.</p>
<p>In culling off these rare kids, we do not give them anything they do not already deserve. They are doing as well as the other deserving kids. But if there are only 1000 spots for 5000 deserving kids, to what do we appeal in order to select that thousand students? Chance? If we appeal to chance, then we are almost certainly claiming that that relatively rare Blackson will get lost in the swamp of similar students. It would be a disaster, a shameful disaster because that kid, simply because he is a Blackson, has had to work against a history that none of the others have had to endure.</p>
<p>We do not wish to subject him, an already deserving student, to chance. We want to cull him along with others. They have already demonstrated an inexplicable hopefulness that we wish to promote. We wish them to grow and have families to keep that hopefulness growing. That is Affirmative Action in a nutshell. It is a way to better ensure we maintain the inexplicable flicker of hope coming out of the Blacksons, as we work in the communities to alter Blackson Culture generally.</p>
<p>I do not advocate AA for the Blacksons who have given in to the hopelessness they have inherited. They do need help, but not AA. I advocate AA for those relatively rare Blacksons who are obviously filled enough with hope to keep fighting against the odds. They deserve whatever they get. AA should just let them go out and get it, instead of throwing them to mindless chance.</p>