The Color-Blind Don't See Color
Submitted to the skin-color obsessed Boston Globe on December 9:
Editor,
It's super-ironic that the Boston Globe Editorial Board publishes an editorial on racial diversity, which was really just a feel-good and overly-preachy editorial about racial "representation", when the composition of the Board is eight whites, one African-American and no Asians (It's not easy being diverse, December 8, A20).
When my moderate friends and I mock the arrogant "liberal elites", this is exactly who and what we are mocking.
Or, contrary, to the Boston Globe and far too many white's misguided and guilt-sustained belief that racial representation equals diversity, I believe honest appreciation for diversity has more to do with celebrating diversity of thought; thought color-blind in the truest spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Specifically and bluntly, I think the Editorial Board would be stronger with a pro-life voice, regardless of skin color, than another pro-abortion voice of a unique color. There are many such blunt examples, but I think I made my point.
I'm not trying to be funny, just dismissive of the skin-color-obsessed: we will never be a color-blind society until we are a color-blind society. (End of letter.)
One hundred assembled people of one hundred colors that all think the taxpayer's money is the Government's money is not a diverse group.
One hundred assembled people of one color that have one hundred different opinions about when human life begins is a diverse group.
Change the numbers; change the issue; I'm ZACKlyRight.
Submitted to the skin-color obsessed Boston Globe on December 9:
Editor,
It's super-ironic that the Boston Globe Editorial Board publishes an editorial on racial diversity, which was really just a feel-good and overly-preachy editorial about racial "representation", when the composition of the Board is eight whites, one African-American and no Asians (It's not easy being diverse, December 8, A20).
When my moderate friends and I mock the arrogant "liberal elites", this is exactly who and what we are mocking.
Or, contrary, to the Boston Globe and far too many white's misguided and guilt-sustained belief that racial representation equals diversity, I believe honest appreciation for diversity has more to do with celebrating diversity of thought; thought color-blind in the truest spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Specifically and bluntly, I think the Editorial Board would be stronger with a pro-life voice, regardless of skin color, than another pro-abortion voice of a unique color. There are many such blunt examples, but I think I made my point.
I'm not trying to be funny, just dismissive of the skin-color-obsessed: we will never be a color-blind society until we are a color-blind society. (End of letter.)
One hundred assembled people of one hundred colors that all think the taxpayer's money is the Government's money is not a diverse group.
One hundred assembled people of one color that have one hundred different opinions about when human life begins is a diverse group.
Change the numbers; change the issue; I'm ZACKlyRight.
posted by Zack at 7:37 PM
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The Boston Globe passed over my letter but here's the one it published from Gov. Mitt Romney's Communications Director:
A NEW STUDY from UMass-Boston found that 11 percent of 163 top positions in state government are filled by minorities, occasioning complaints that minorities are underrepresented because they make up more than 16 percent of the state's population at large ("It's not easy being diverse," editorial, Dec. 8). The study reminds us of the importance of achieving diversity in the workplace, but perhaps its methodology is flawed.
According to 2005 US Census figures, there are in Massachusetts 1.57 million adults age 25 or above with at least a bachelor's degree -- the group from which one would expect all senior executives and other top-level gubernatorial appointees to be drawn. Of that number, 11.8 percent are people of color. The 11 percent of minorities that UMass-Boston found occupying senior positions in state government just about exactly reflects the pool from which they are drawn. A better measure of progress is to look at all executive branch employees, not just leadership, where the number of minorities is 22 percent, far exceeding their statewide representation.
ERIC FEHRNSTROM
Communications Director
Office of the Governor
Boston
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