Let's Talk Diversity

There is a lot of talk in this nation about racism. However, it appears to me that the people in this country who are the most racist are the anti-racist people themselves. Allow me to explain.

Let's start with diversity. The whole goal of diversity is to have colleges or work places or neighborhoods or countries that have people of all races, sexes, and religions and political views. Right?

Well, not really, because they don't want Catholics or Christians. They don't want Republicans, at least not conservative Republicans. And, even my son says, if you walked around the U of M campus with a Trump hat you'd probably be shot dead in your tracks.

I am all for diversity. Diversity is fine. Diversity is good. But diversity is not good if it is fake. And, when you become a diverse campus because you are racist yourself, it's not good.

How about an example. Martin Luthor King Jr. said that you should hire people based on the content of their character, or based on their qualifications, and not based on the color of their skin. I'm paraphrasing, but it was something like that.

But that's not what they do at the U of M. They accept so many white people, and then they start accepting people of other races who may not be as qualified just because of their skin color. 

That's how they got diversified.

To me, you have, say, 50,000 applications to go to your college, and you accept the 50,000 most qualified students to attend your college. And, whatever skin color they so happen to be, it does not matter. Skin color does not matter. Sex doesn't matter. Religion does not matter. Political affiliation doesn't matter.

But it does matter, to them. It does matter to the people who say we aren't diversified enough. And to them, a little racism is okay so long as they are advancing their agenda.

But it's not okay. It's wrong. It creates fake diversity.

That's how I see this issue. I think that I am the one who is the least racist. I think conservative politicians are less racist than liberal ones because conservatives believe in Martin Luthor King Jr. vision of a color free society.

You see, by creating diversity by allowing or accepting a certain kind of racism is racism in and of itself. It is the definition of racism. Affirmative action is racism. Identity politics is racism. Quotas are racist.

And yet conservatives are called racist. We are called racist because we are against affirmative action, identity politics, quotas, etc. We want a color blind society. We want people to be hired by the content of their character and not the color of their skin.

Diversity is why Democrats want to allow illegal immigrants into our country. They believe, the way we became great, was the influx of immigrants into our nation. They believe we became great because of these immigrants. They believe we became great because of documents like the Constitution.

That is not the truth, however. The truth is that America did not become great because of immigrants. We did not become great because of diversity. We did not gain our freedom and become great due to any document.

We became great because of freedom and liberty. And no document can create that. Freedom and liberty are gifts handed down from God. We are all born free, and no government can take that freedom away -- although it can deny it.

And, again, that is why America is great -- because we do not deny you your freedom. About 99% of governments before the U.S. Constitution was signed denied 99% of people their freedom. This is why America is great because people are free to dream and to take risks.

Diversity has nothing to do with greatness. Diversity has nothing to do with freedom. In fact, as Rush Limbaugh said, "Diversity did not make America Great."

Here's part of what Rush Limbaugh had to say about this:

"Diversity had nothing to do with America’s greatness. America’s greatness had everything to do with morality and values and people’s commitment to excellence and their desire to overcome tyranny, particularly religious tyranny. It had nothing to do with the way they looked or what their hair was or any of that! But that’s how people look at it. “What makes America great is our diversity,” and it’s silly, and it’s insulting to people, to say that the only thing that matters about them is their skin color!... The only thing that matters about them is their heritage? Those are identifiable characteristics but they have nothing to do with the kind of person someone is. Unless people are talked into letting those things speak for them rather than who they are, and that’s one of the inherent dangers of all of this.

We became great not because of diversity, but because we became the first country not to deny the inalienable rights handed down from the Lord thy God.

If you really get down to it, there is no diversity at schools like the U of M. There is no diversity of thought. And there is no diversity of thought in the media. And there is no diversity of thought on ESPN.

That's why they are all tanking. Rather than hiring the best of the best, they are hiring people based on the color of their skin.