HI FRIENDS - SORRY BUT THIS IS THE LAST LOOK INSIDE THE BOOK.SORRY NO PREVIEW OF REMAINING CHAPTERS ON THE MEDIA, RIGHT WING, THE GOVERNMENT, ECONOMICS,LAWYERS, ENVIROMENT,ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION.HOW TO MAKE THINGS BETTER, REFERENCES AND INDEX.
IN THE FUTURE I MAY SHARE EXAMPLES OF HOW BY CONTINUING TO ACT LIKE BRAINLESS ROBOTS YOUR I HATE AMERICA MEDIA AND UNIVERSITY MASTERS ARE DESTROYING OUR FUTURE. IT IS SO EASY TO DESTROY BUT SO HARD TO BUILD SOMETHING POSITIVE.
IN CHAPTER ONE YOU CAN SEE I PAID MY DUES FOR THE CIVIL RIGHTS CAUSE WHEN IT WAS CIVIL NOT AN OBVIOUS CON GAME.
HOPING THERE ARE LEADERS OUT THERE WHO WILL GET IT! THEY COULD TURN AGAINST THE BRAINWASHED ROBOTS MASTERS AND BRING THE FACTS INTO IVY WALLED FORTRESS WE CAN TURN ON THE LIGHTS AGAIN IN OUR NEW DARK AGE UNIVERSITIES.
TIKKUN OLEM NOT MONEY IS MY MOTAVATION. INDEED,I USED MY OWN LIMITED FIXED RETIREMENT INCOME TO PUBLISH THIS PERSONAL DIARY FOR OTHERS TO CAREFULLY CONSIDER. I GAVE IT MY BEST SHOT HOPEFULLY SOME OF YOU WILL HAVE THE GUTS TO READ THE FACTS AND PERHAPS RETHINK YOUR POSTION.
AND YOU CAN TRUST ME MORE THEN THOSE IN THE DIVERSITY CON GAME. I HAVE NO AX TO GRIND. I TRY TO BE AN INDEPENDENT WHO LIVES IN THE REAL WORLD. MOREOVER, MY PREDICTIONS IN MY BOOK FUTURE IN SIGHT PROVED RIGHT ON. I TRULY WISH YOU ALL WELL. SOME OF MY THOUGHTS LOOK FORWARD TO YOURS. B.
DIVERSITY ("DIVISITY")NOT TOGETHERNESS BENEFITS THE US
We must topple one of our new idols: the misguided belief that diversity is strength. In order to protect our country and society, we must see diversity as the threat and danger that it has become. By using diversity as the weapon of choice, the high priests of diversity have successfully infiltrated our legal, media, governmental, political, business, financial, cultural, and most importantly, our educational sectors. Their success continues to come at great cost to our country’s well being.
Many of America’s Blacks have strayed too far off Martin Luther King’s trail to the mountaintop. They have instead been rolled down the less strenuous hill toward victim-hood. Indeed, recent generations have grown up believing that they live in a hostile, alien nation. Encouraged by their leaders to act like dysfunctional children, many Blacks have learned that they can get what they want by stomping their feet and throwing temper tantrums at all forms of authority. And government has allowed them to do just that, time and again. For example, instead of responding firmly to illegal minority actions like the looting in New Orleans after hurricane Katrina, or the race riots in Watts, government at all levels continues to look for excuses to rationalize the causes of minority crime, poor school scores, and job performance.
Moreover, politicians have allowed the might of powerful government departments such as the Department of Justice to be usurped by minority leaders, for use as weapons to bully businesses and schools into giving them opportunities they could never earn on their own.
In this chapter, I will explain how extremists, demagogues, and extortionists hijacked the Civil Rights Movement and the basic good will of all the American people in order to benefit themselves and to promote their radical ideology. In the name of diversity, we have damaged existing institutions, brainwashed a whole generation of our youth, and silenced public outrage.
PART 1 – WHO IS TO BLAME?
In January 1961, I watched the inauguration of John F. Kennedy, our youngest president ever. He brought a vital energy and enthusiasm that was contagious. His rallying cry, "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country" inspired young people to participate in the world’s greatest democracy and mold a new vision of the future. JFK brought the Peace Corp into being, and was immensely popular at home and abroad. He even promised us the moon! But before JFK could lead us to a world of peace and prosperity for all, he was assassinated. For many of us, the killing was a rude awakening from a collective American dream.
My World in the 1960’s
I heard the news about the Kennedy assassination while I was working as Employment Supervisor for Coca-Cola Bottling Company of New York. I was devastated because I knew what a rare person JFK was, and that the world had lost a great leader.
As a newly degreed Industrial Psychologist at the time, I prided myself on my objectivity and my professional use of testing and interviewing tools to hire the best people for this NYSE-listed company. After a period of interviewing and testing, I found a good applicant for an accounting supervisor job. He was Black, but I didn’t give it a second thought. Perhaps I should have.
I brought the candidate to the accounting manager’s office. The manager’s secretary said that the manager would be right back. I left the test results, my extensive interview form, and the applicant with the secretary. On my way back to my office, I stopped walking because I heard someone yelling behind me. As I turned around, I saw the red-faced accounting manager throw the candidate’s paperwork at me and scream, "When you hire one of them, then I will!" I was quickly learning that by presenting a Black candidate, I had crossed an unacceptable boundary.
The elderly chairman of Coca-Cola rarely strayed from his office, which occupied the whole fourth floor of the building. So you can imagine my shock the next day when this red-faced old geezer threw open my door and stomped into my office. "You’re Jewish. You know how to talk to them. Make them go away!" he shouted. The "them" that he referred to was a group from the NAACP, who were picketing the Coca-Cola headquarters because of the incident the day before.
I quickly walked downstairs and talked with the demonstrators, explaining that I was the person who had recommended the applicant, and was ashamed and disgusted at what had transpired. After they understood that I was a recent hire and was attempting to change this ingrained culture, they began to see me as an ally. I accepted their invitation to become a member of the New York Urban League Job and Economic Development Committee, and they agreed to abandon their protest against Coca-Cola.
Later on, at one of the Urban League committee meetings, a problem surfaced. A number of Black applicants had failed a test required to get jobs in the then-racially closed airline industry. Being a testing maven, I asked what test was given. It was the Bennett Mechanical Comprehension Test that I also used as part of my standard test battery. I then asked which scoring scale was used, and received some blank stares. I explained that there were scales for those with two years of high school, high school graduates, and those with a college education. Upon checking, we learned that the HR person at TWA was using a college scoring scale for Blacks and a high school scoring scale for Whites, when both groups had only high school educations. Faced with that information, it was amazing how willingly and how quickly the airlines began to hire Blacks.
The point of this history is to show by example that in the early 1960’s, there was real discrimination. Blacks were indeed being discriminated against. Most Black people were poor and often faced discrimination in employment, including the despicable practice of putting racial notations on application forms. (Our government now uses similar notations to promote Affirmative Action.)
Black leadership, at that time, included great people like Roy Wilkins, who welcomed the continuing gains the Civil Rights Movement was making, and welcomed the White liberal power base that was at the forefront of the movement. The Jews, who made up a large percentage of the Civil Rights Movement, felt particular kinship with the movement; their children had also been discriminated against when they applied to universities, businesses, and country clubs throughout the US.
By 1973, I was working as Assistant to the President, for a brilliant, liberal businessman and political aspirant involved in many worthwhile causes, including civil rights. As his assistant, I participated in numerous benefits and committee meetings, and did so enthusiastically. However, at
one of these meetings a subtle change occurred that would alter history. Few understood that the hot air being vented by the speaker would mushroom into such a damaging storm.
I cannot remember the date, but the speaker was Stokley Carmichael, Chairman of Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). As he spoke, the crowd, which was split between Blacks and Whites, cheered his fiery rhetoric. I had also been cheering, but at some point became aware of a dramatically different tone and theme.
The focus of the talk shifted to the need for a Black power movement to create awareness among Blacks of their ability to change their own circumstances, without reliance on the White power structure. Though there was some logic to his argument, his tone and words made me feel defensive, unwelcome, and confused at a gut level.
Carmichael’s SNCC position paper confirmed his "Whites not welcome here" attitude.
No matter how much money you make in the Black community, when you go into the White world you are still a nigger. Any white person who comes into the movement has concepts in his mind about Black people, if only subconsciously. He cannot escape them because the whole society has geared his subconscious in that direction... One White person can come into a meeting of Black people and change the complexion of that meeting. If Blacks feel intimated by Whites, then they are not liable to vent the rage they feel about Whites in the presence of Whites. This is not to say that Whites have not had an important role in the movement. In the case of Mississippi, their role was very important in that they helped give Blacks the right to organize, but that role is over, and it should be. The charge might be made that we are racists but Whites that are sensitive to our problems will realize that we must determine our own destiny.
Carmichael used the term "Black Power" to label the movement that he was advocating.
While most of the White liberals just continued cheering, my gut and my objective mind were once again telling me that something was changing very dramatically. The bottom line was that many people, Black and White, felt that the Civil Rights Movement was achieving significant economic, social, and political liberation. But some Black radicals, disgusted with the slow pace of reform, decided to speed things up through in-your-face confrontation. Indeed, once again in world history, a subtle new belief system was about to spin out of control with enormous consequences to society.
The Black Revolution
Black Muslims
Among the most outspoken Black people who changed the "civil" rights agenda was Malcolm X, formerly Malcolm Little. He was a guy in trouble with the law. This Black Muslim extremist demanded not only equality, but also a Black revolution, as a response to the oppression and inequality Black people experienced. Malcolm X looked at the history of the Black people in America and pointed out how the country was still suffering from a slave mentality on the part of both the White establishment and Blacks’ thinking. Malcolm somehow identified with the Muslim faith, although the Qur’an condones slavery, and Arabs had long been the major slave traders in Africa.
Black Panthers
Eldridge Cleaver made the issue literally black and white. "All of us must take a stand for or against the freedom of your people. You must be with your people or against them. You are either part of the solution or part of the problem." In his book, Soul on Ice, Cleaver aired Black grievances against White society, and like Malcolm X, pointed out that Black anger was rooted in hundreds of years of psychological oppression by Whites. Cleaver went on to become the Minister of the Black Panther Party.
Huey Newton, along with Bobby Seale, embraced the teachings of Malcolm X and founded the Black Panther Party, which is when the counter-culture enemies of America began their ongoing guerrilla war. "We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism," said Newton. Their agenda was nothing less than revolution!
To protect Blacks from alleged police brutality, the Black Panthers advocated arming Black people with weapons with which to defend themselves. Cleaver made that clear when he said, "No force can stop us
from achieving our goal. If it is necessary to destroy the US of America, then let us destroy it with a smile on our faces."
Furthermore, Cleaver’s attempt to destroy the morale of Black troops in Vietnam was a blatant act of treason that was never pursued by authorities.
I am the Minister of Information of the Black Panther Party, and I am speaking to you for the Party, but I want to put a personal note into this because I know you niggers have your minds all messed up about Black organizations, or you wouldn’t be flunkies for the white organization – the USA – for whom you have picked up the gun... Either quit the army, now, or start destroying it from the inside... You need to start killing the racist pigs who are over there giving you orders. Kill General Abrahams and his staff, all his officers. Sabotage supplies and equipment, or turn them over to Vietnamese people... You should start now weeding out traitors amongst you. It is better to do it now than to allow them to return home to help the pigs wipe us out.
The Panthers’ preaching of revolution and armed struggle was a very credible threat to American society. They were well organized, highly motivated, well armed, and trained. And unfortunately, the new tough talk appealed more to the gut of the Black masses than the slow, steady gains and the reasoned and inclusive work of the Civil Rights Movement. Indeed, a Wall Street Journal poll of four metropolitan areas in the late 1960’s indicated that a clear majority of Blacks strongly supported both the goals and methods of the Black Panthers.
Their supporters were happy to parrot some of the irrational nonsense of the revolutionary group. Many are now highly paid professors in public universities. Their party line included:
· Exemption of all Black men from military service
· Freedom for all Black men in all jails
· A UN plebiscite for a Black colony, with the purpose of determining the will of the Black people as to their national destiny
· Forty acres and two mules as restitution for slave labor and mass murder of Blacks
The angry Black rhetoric, which can still be heard in today’s rap, became the chorus of other groups looking to overthrow the status quo. The Young Lords Party Platform sounded a similar note to that of the Panthers for a Puerto Rican / Latin audience.
In every way we are slaves of the gringo... Our Latin brothers and sisters, inside and outside the U.S., are oppressed by amerikkkan (sic) business. All the colored and oppressed people of the world are one nation under oppression.... No Puerto Rican should serve in the U.S. Army against his Brothers and Sisters, for the only true army of oppressed people is the people’s army to fight all rulers... The time has come ... for revolutionary war against the businessman, politician and police.
The unrealistic Black Panther Platform of 1966 helped set the stage for the acceptance of closed and hyphenated groups such as African-Americans, Asian-Americans, and Arab-Americans, who identify themselves first by race, national origin, religion, and gender, and rarely as proud Americans. Our country could now be symbolized as a tattered patchwork quilt, rather then the melting pot that turned immigrants and natives into the steel that built America’s businesses and fought fascism. Moreover, as rational thought was silenced by political correctness, the
minority squeaky wheel whined on and on, demanding more oil to quiet its shrill sound.
Though the Black Panther leaders were eventually either killed or incarcerated, they managed to inspire many Blacks, other ethnic and protected groups, and their Left-wing supporters, to continue to angrily fight, disrespect, and undermine the greatest democracy the world has ever known. The class warfare and victim mentality that still permeates the Black community spread to the new Left wing, Hispanics, disabled, and Women’s Rights movement.
Moreover, our brainwashed children are now being taught to respect and legitimize radicals such as Malcolm X. Malcolm X didn't mince words. "I'm not an American!" he sputtered. "America is a nightmare! America practices slavery! The white man is the common enemy!" Naturally, Time magazine heralded him during Black History Month. And let’s not forget other radical troublemakers, such as Eldridge Cleaver and Bobby Seale, who are now presented as role models to our brainwashed students.
I have watched with horror as our schools celebrated the schism they call diversity, not seeing that it rips apart the moral fabric that binds us together as Americans. While minority groups are using diversity as a weapon to slice the American whole into separate, angry, unmanageable pieces, many of us long for the togetherness of the cohesive and proud country that was propelled by the vibrant energy of President Kennedy. He spoke of a new generation of Americans, participating in the world’s greatest democracy to create a new vision of the future.
The Tattered Patchwork Quilt
Though Kennedy’s legacy and dreams have faded, the seeds of irrationality, reverse discrimination, blackmail, negativity, diversity, threat, and extortion sowed by the Black extremists around the same time continue to sprout weeds. As radical and revolutionary dialogue and action were being introduced and accepted by a large percentage of the population, the whole USA, rather than just a few individuals, Southern states, or specific businesses, was seen as the enemy. I watched sadly as Black reverse racism permeated the North, at a time when we should have been celebrating how racism against Blacks was declining dramatically in the South and the rest of the country.
Part of the Kennedy legacy was his call for Congress to bring forth civil rights legislation. Lyndon Johnson, a master politician fearful of Black tension and aware of the need to eliminate discrimination, passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The Civil Rights Act was groundbreaking legislation, aimed at ending all forms of discrimination based on race, color, gender, religion, and national origin.
Title I of the Act guarantees equal voting rights. Title II bans discrimination in public accommodations involved in interstate commerce. Title IV calls for the desegregation of schools. Title V of the Act establishes a government agency, the Equal Opportunity Commission (EEOC), to enforce the provisions that prohibit discrimination by employers dealing with the Federal Government or interstate commerce. Title VII deals with discrimination in employment. Title IX requires equal school spending in athletics for women. Congress also debated the issues of racial preferences and proportional representation. The result of the debate was the adoption of Section 703(j) of the Act, which states that nothing in the Act "shall be interpreted to require any employer ... to grant preferential treatment to any individual or group because of race ... of such individual or group" in order to maintain a racial balance.
Senators Clark and Case, who steered that section of Title VII through the legislative process, left no doubt about Congress’s intent in their statement at the time.
Any deliberate attempt to maintain a racial balance, whatever such balance might be, would involve a violation of Title VII because maintaining such a balance would require an employer to hire or refuse to hire on the basis of race. It must be emphasized that discrimination is prohibited to any individual.
Like so of the many best intentions, few of us who celebrated the passage of the Civil Rights Act realized how it would be bastardized into a weapon of mass destruction. No one guess that it would someday be used to legitimize reverse discrimination against Whites, or to have quotas based on skin color and race used as a substitute for picking the most qualified person for the job or for admission to school. Moreover, no one could have predicted that Black politicians and leaders of the EEOC, and other government agencies, would misuse the legislation to help them extort business, media, and associations with deep pockets.
It is no wonder that Latinos, Asians, Arabs, women, gays, and the handicapped have expropriated the Black approach to dealing with society and the government for themselves. The US is at war with itself, as cooperation has given way to confrontation, and irrational thinking has replaced logic in race relations.
Solidifying Mediocrity, and Reverse Discrimination
For a brief, shining moment, the principle of colorblind justice was recognized as the law of the land. But all too soon, that principle was thrust aside by the Nixon administration, to make way for a system of race-based entitlement. The critical events took place during the Nixon Administration when the so-called Philadelphia Plan was adopted. It became the prototypical program of racial preferences for federal contractors.
In February 1970, the US Department of Labor issued an order that the Affirmative Action programs adopted by all government contractors must include "goals and timetables to which the contactor’s good faith efforts must be directed to correct ... deficiencies in the utilization of minority groups."
This construct of goals and timetables clearly envisioned a system of proportional representation in which group identity would be a factor – often the decisive factor – in hiring decisions. Embodied in this misguided bureaucratic verbiage was a policy requiring that distinctions in treatment be made on the basis of race.
This language has allowed a newly protected class to become reverse racists and use fear of our own government’s equal opportunity laws to bully fearful executives and administrators. They are seeding their diversity apostles into the power positions in our schools, government, and businesses. They, in turn, follow the party line and hire, promote, and contract with their less-qualified insider buddies. Later in this chapter, I will highlight the Boeing case, where race rather then performance or experience determines hiring and pay grade.
The Bad Guys Are Now the Good Guys
Minority criminals and illegal aliens are now seen as victims that should be given healthcare, schooling, childcare, support, and other benefits not available to law-abiding citizens. Gangster illogic has become chic to the Left. This logic states that we (minorities) are victims of society, so if we commit crimes on society, we should not go to prison. We (minorities) should not be profiled, though statistically we are much more likely to commit crimes. I’m looking at a description of a suspect who stabbed a 14-year-old girl after stalking her. Nowhere is the race of this suspect mentioned, because the local police and newspaper find that it is more important to be politically correct then to take dangerous criminals off the street.
Because minorities are more heavily represented in prison than in the general population, they contend that there must be something unfair about the system. They do not consider the obvious fact: that minorities commit more crimes. And how sad to watch the destruction of our legal system as the oversupply of lawyers, many paid by our government, try to prove the one creed that all prisoners share – that they are innocent.
Teen Idle
Other blessings to society from the diversity idol include minority pop culture idols that are foul mouthed and inarticulate, with large gold chains, diamonds, and other "bling," and who wear baggy pants that are great for concealing weapons. These losers, who extol drugs, nice asses, and violence while playing with themselves on TV, have been allowed to become role models for our children. Over 60% of our youth say that their role model is either from Hollywood or the sports arena. Indeed, our youth are like Pinocchio who, after a time of out-of-control indulgence on Pleasure Island, was slowly turned into an ass by unscrupulous profiteers.
Signs of our youth being becoming jackasses abound. For example, the most searched person on Google in 2006 was Paris Hilton, the diva of overindulgence and material values. The reversal of our moral compass is assisted by the so-called reality TV shows that, with their crude and distorted presentation of reality, continue to brainwash and pander to teens, who are becoming sexually mature at younger ages. And how about the popular movie Jackass 2, which makes many of the previous crude movies seem PG-13 rated. What has happened to all those consumer companies? They take pride in their social responsibility programs, yet promote these losers, and help them to reach target demographic audiences.
Our Brainwashed Generation
Like the generation of children who grew up brainwashed under Mao, or children who are currently studying terrorism in the Madras’ of Pakistan or the Jew-hating classrooms in Gaza, Saudi Arabia, and Iran, we in the US have lost a generation of our children to the prophets and profits of egotistical Black males and their blackmail. Our children have even accepted the growing trend of schools to have separate proms for Blacks, Hispanic, and White students.
We Have Silenced the Good Hearts and Minds of America
Furthermore, the majority of Americans have bottled up their anger and become silent, for fear of saying something that would go against our government-protected classes. Someone who said "say monkey" to a Black family to get them to smile for a picture – a word he has always used for his own family pictures – was fired from his job at Southwest Airlines for
"racial insensitivity." A Black professor / rapper, Cornel West, is criticized by the President of Harvard for missing classes, grade inflation, and neglecting serious scholarship political activism; in this case, spoken word poetry is of course played up as a victim, while the university president is subjected to unrelenting faculty and media criticism. Finally, the media called for the firing of a football coach for saying that Black people run faster than Whites because his comment was considered "insensitive and racist."
Wake up, people, and see the growing danger of Affirmative Action, the (Un) Civil Rights Commission, inept, trouble-making and immoral Black leadership, and ass-kissing White leaders. The silent majority must get a voice and speak up clearly, before this un-equal favoritism rips apart the most basic tenants of America.
Frank Jewett is a popular local TV host, community activist, Navel officer, friend, and a contributor to this book. In the words of the late Secretary of Commerce, Ron Brown, he calls himself, "an American who happens to be of African decent." Frank, like most fair-minded people, believes that giving advantage solely because of race or national origin is simply wrong, and the very definition of un-American, even if our own Supreme Court has forgotten the basic tenant upon which this country was built.
The following section exemplifies how and why a damaged belief system is being exploited to our country’s detriment.
PART 2 – THE GOVERNMENT GETS INTO THE ACT
The bloated Federal government has unleashed a rat’s nest of lawyers, causing a plague that is destroying our businesses and economy. Using its legitimacy as an arm of the Federal government, the Equal Opportunity Commission (EEOC), which grew out of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 and was intended to help prevent discrimination against Blacks, has instead become the home base for reverse discrimination against Whites.
Government lawyers have helped Jesse Jackson and other opportunists successfully use threats and intimidation to achieve large cash settlements and forced employment of Blacks from deep-pocket organizations throughout the country. These organizations are willing to pay off Black leaders and their cadre of lawyers and consultants in order to prevent spurious boycotts, lawsuits, demonstrations, and other problems.
EEOC
The EEOC is one of most dangerous organizations in America. It has done irreparable damage to our businesses, schools, and government institutions. I first became aware of the EEOC when, as the head of Labor Relations for a New York company, I was asked to appear before the Commission regarding a complaint by an employee who had recently been fired. The employee, a Hispanic union member, was let go after several months of the normal grievance process, and with the agreement of the union. His argument was that he was discriminated against because he was Hispanic. I explained to the Commission members that this claim was nonsense, because about three-quarters of our union employees were Black or Hispanic.
The logic of my argument should have produced a win for my company; it was instead a no-brainer that highlighted that the all-minority panel consisted of no-brainers. The EEOC insisted that we had discriminated, and that we must rehire the troublemaker with back pay. These irrational, one-sided, unjust rulings, I was to later learn, were the rule rather then the exception with the EEOC. The legacy of this worthless department continues today.
Protect Illegal Aliens
When Ida Castro, a Latino female, became EEOC chair, it was the Hispanics’ turn to swing with the EEOC paddle and try to break apart an American piñata, filled with jobs and cash payoffs just waiting to fall into what the Federation for Immigration Reform (FAIR) called "unclean hands." She quickly sought protection for the undocumented workers who illegally entered the country while thousands who followed the law waited for a chance to immigrate legally. Her policy called for the undocumented workers to be entitled to wrongful termination, back pay, damages, and legal costs. According to FAIR, this policy "appears to be sanctioning people who have unclean hands, people who break our laws willingly and knowingly, and people who are bidding down the wages of all Americans."
Payoff for Not Speaking Our Language
If you’re still not convinced that the EEOC should be shattered and swept into the dustbin of history, the following case will change your mind.
A private Catholic university in San Antonio, Texas did a tremendous favor for its Hispanic housekeepers when it told them to speak English on the job – not because the workers learned to speak the language of the US, but because the EEOC then helped the housekeepers win a $2.4 million legal settlement. Note that 71% of the students at the University of the Incarnate Word are minorities. Their tuition dollars now line the pockets of people who couldn’t bear the thought of speaking English.
In this case, it didn’t matter that it is legal for employers to have English work rules; in this wacko world, the EEOC insisted that there was a violation of the 1964 Civil Rights Act on the grounds that they discriminated against people on the basis of their national origin. Similar language case boondoggles have shot up 500% over the last few years. It is another one of the typical EEOC cases, where everyone loses except the people who should have.
If you are still not convinced that the EEOC and the quota business should be shut down and padlocked, the following case might shock you.
Boeing
Boeing, the huge aerospace and government contractor with over $18 billion in contracts, was brutalized by the growing quota industry to aggressively exclude non-minorities. The aerospace giant spent $1.3 billion on race-based and gender-based programs, to ensure that Boeing’s employment policies specifically favor minorities in hiring and promotions. Moreover, Boeing suppliers and subcontractors must be in the correct race, gender, and ethnicity classes in order to do business with the aerospace giant.
Our bloated, duplicative, wasteful Federal government sends no fewer than three huge federal agencies to monitor Boeing’s employment practices regarding selected minorities: the US Department of Justice, the US EEOC, and the US Department of Labor. This virtual army of tax-supported lawyers and analysts combs through Boeing’s personnel files to verify the total number and pay scales of each of the following categories of Boeing preferred employees and suppliers: Black, Asian Pacific-American, Sub-continental Asian-American, Hispanic-American, Native-American, and females of any ethnicity.
In their analysis of Boeing’s "enforced diversity," the US Department of Labor does not take into account seniority or years of service. As a Federal contractor, Boeing must prove to the Federal bureaucracy that it has hired the correct proportions for all of these preferred race, ethnic, and gender classes, and that they have been paid the same as their White counterparts, regardless of performance or seniority. The government also requires Federal contractors such as Boeing to aggressively ensure that people of the "correct" race and gender are their suppliers and subcontractors ("correct" is a code word for Blacks and other protected minorities).
Race and Gender-Motivated Lawsuits against Boeing
Since 1997 alone, at least five discrimination lawsuits have been filed against Boeing on behalf of Black, Asian, and female employees. Boeing chose not to contest the two largest suits, and instead agreed to pay a total of almost $20 million to settle disputes.
In response to a lawsuit filed by Black Boeing employees (Staton v. Boeing), Boeing settled for $15 million in January of 1999. Jesse Jackson figured prominently in brokering the $15 million deal. It has been reported that his various tax-exempt organizations "profited handsomely from
his interference." In fact, Boeing Chairman and CEO, Phil Condit, made a point to announce the settlement in a joint news conference with Jesse Jackson. However, on November 26, 2002, the US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the method of distributing the $15 million among the individual plaintiffs, as well as the compensation to be paid to the lawyers, was suspect, and sent the case back to the District Court for review.
Women and minorities won a second settlement for $4.5 million in November 1999, in a case concerning alleged pay disparities among female and minority workers. The settlement was agreed to after the US Department of Labor launched no fewer then ten burdensome and contentious audits of Boeing’s pay practices around the country.
Also, as part of the deal with former President Bill Clinton’s Department of Labor, Boeing must collect and report race and gender data on anyone who merely expresses an interest in working at Boeing, not just the people Boeing actually interviews.
The US Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) analyzed Boeing’s compensation data, and determined that some women and minorities were earning less than the median pay scale, as compared to White males in their particular jobs. The OFCCP analysis never took into account length of time on the job or how well individuals did their jobs.
These class actions by minority employees are significant for two reasons. First, the cases illustrate that the racial quota industry is able to exploit huge concessions and preferences from large employers. In virtually all cases of this type, the employer never goes to the expense of proving itself innocent in a court of law. In fact, no major civil rights lawsuit of this type in the past decade has ever gone to trial! Second, the dollar amount, both on the books ($15 million) and off the books (over $1.3 billion) is far larger than in other cases.
Boeing’s concessions to the quota industry, as reported in the press, are: Employees must have worked at Boeing for at least one year to be eligible for awards, and since Boeing had previously bought McDonnell Douglas and Rockwell, the settlement also included former McDonnell Douglas and Rockwell employees. The Black workers got a total of $6.65 million, while various attorneys involved were to receive $7.7 million. This contested amount is puny compared to the huge off-the-books payments.
Public records reveal that Boeing has made race-based payments of $1.3 billion to the quota industry. One wouldn’t be surprised if this was done specifically to keep "Jessie James Jackson," as he has been called, and his gang (Department of Labor, EEOC, et al), off their backs.
A partial list of Boeing’s off the books racial payments is:
· $800 million – In the first nine months of 2001 alone, Boeing boasted that it had issued $800 million in contracts and supply orders to minority and woman-owned businesses as part of their "Supplier Diversity Program."
· $500 million was reported for contracts to three minority-owned investment banks that have financial ties to Jesse Jackson’s Chicago-based Rainbow / PUSH coalition, for contracts to manage the Company’s pension funds and defined benefit trusts.
· $3.7 million was spent for equal opportunity and diversity training initiatives.
· $1 million was paid to the National Minority Supplier Development Council Business Consortium fund, which provided contract financing to certified minority businesses across America through a network of local participating certified lending banks and regional councils.
· $250,000 – For his Boeing intervention, Jackson reportedly received at least $250,000 for his CEF fund.
· $225,000 was reportedly paid to Boeing-appointed Rosalind Crenshaw, a supplier diversity specialist, who acted as Boeing’s liaison to Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow / Push organization, with 25% of Ms. Crenshaw’s salaried Boeing job being devoted to Rainbow /PUSH activities.
· $150,000 – Four scholarships are provided annually by Boeing St. Louis for owners of minority businesses to attend the Kellogg School of Business and Northwestern University, and two scholarships are provided to attend the Minority Business Executive Program at the expensive Dartmouth University.
· $100,000 – Reportedly, Boeing "donates" hundreds of thousands of "off-the-books funds" to Jesse Jackson for sponsorship of Jesse Jackson fundraisers, conventions, and dinner galas.
One such dinner gala, a Black-tie event for which Boeing had paid over $100,000 in sponsorship fees, raised an additional $2.1 million in a race-based shakedown of corporate America to support Jesse Jackson’s Citizen Education Fund (CEF). The CEF is the fund from which Jesse Jackson cut a $40,000 check to his mistress, Karen Stanford, who bore his out-of-wedlock child.
The IRS subsequently ruled that Jackson’s use of these tax-exempt funds to avoid a lawsuit was a permissible use of taxpayer funds! This is an example of how the virus carried by the diversity business moves back into the protection of a government agency once it has infected the host company, in this case Boeing.
These companies are paying to assure that they will continue to be ripped off. According to the Seattle Times, during Washington State’s Initiative 200, a campaign to overturn racial preferences, Boeing contributed $50,000 to opponents of the initiative, who wanted to retain racial preferences in the state. In spite of Boeing’s efforts, the voters, by an overwhelming majority, approved Initiative 200. Boeing’s unnecessary involvement and support of the University of Michigan’s use of racial quotas in admissions is another example of how the parasitic racial preference groups made Boeing their personal bitch, and used their cash machine to push their agenda.
As the Judicial, Legislative, and Executive branches, along with infected businesses and liberal media, try to legitimize these horrible wrongs, other groups also identifying themselves as victims literally begin to follow suit – lawsuit that is. Moreover, the Left-wing / minority-dominated extremists at the EEOC expanded their sphere of influence, making areas such as sexual harassment a profitable growth business for their friends. Their success brought forth headlines such as "Ford settles harassment case for $7.5 million," making it the fourth-largest sexual harassment case in EEOC history.
Business Learns To Roll Over
The diversity business has spread like a cancer throughout many industries. Having a "diversity officer" to assure that minorities get a leg up when applying for a job or competing as suppliers is now the latest form of featherbedding and influence peddling offered by the "un-civil rights" mob offers to their "good fellows." Businesses who unquestionably give the most are called socially responsible for allowing part of their shareholder profits to be siphoned off to these unproductive leaches. The Jackson group’s latest target is big oil, including BP, which is a sponsor of the Jackson "circus," but still became a target to shoot at. An exception and another hero is T.J. Rodgers. When Jessie Jackson tried to shake down T.J.’s company, his board originally said, "Don’t make waves – go along to get along." Originally, he was going to adopt the "under-the-desk" reaction like the board wanted him to. But after listening to Jackson saying outrageous things on the radio, T.J. got ticked off. He challenged Jackson to a debate about the facts in Jackson’s racial discrimination claims. Rodgers offered to hire any well-qualified Black candidates Jackson sent him. But of course, it is not the needs of the Black community in which "Me-first Jackson," as some call him in Chicago, is primarily interested. His close circle, however, does get its payoffs – beer distributorships for his sons and millions of dollars for about two dozen of his closest friends.
Author Ken Timmerman had a number of CEO’s come up to him and actually tell him that paying Jessie Jackson $400,000 to $500,000 was the price of doing business. I guess it’s cheaper than being involved in a lawsuit, but it is we, the shareholders and the consumers, that are being ripped off. Shame on the CEO’s who don’t have the balls to stand up against what talk show host Geoff Metcalf calls extortion.
The Mexican American Legal Defense Fund (MALDEF) has immigration reform at the top of their legal agenda, and has also learned that it is good to have friends with deep pockets. Some of the largest corporate / foundation contributors to this Latino organization in the year 2004 were:
· $100,000 – Anheuser-Busch Companies, Ford Foundation, The State Bar of California, University of Notre Dame
· $50,000 to $99,000 – Wells Fargo, AT&T Foundation, Bank of America, Disney Corporation
· Other contributors listed on their website are General Motors, AARP, BP, SBC, Ford Motor, and Fannie Mae
With such strong support for immigrant rights, the ridiculous growing trend of having to "press one" to speak English in America may soon be a way of life for our children.
Forcing Diversity on the Media
Having planted people in power positions in business, educational institutions, and government, it is time for minorities to try to get more control of the media. The quota industry egotists would then have more airtime to spread their propaganda and to balance the rare negative media attention. Black leaders get on fair and balanced news programs to launch their transparent tactic of playing the race card as an excuse for unacceptable Black behavior.
We watched as Jesse Jackson called for widespread consolidation in the communications industry, saying that the "re-segregation of ownership" was a threat to democracy, when it really was a natural byproduct of competition, and industry consolidation as correctly characterized by Ken Johnson, the press secretary to Rep Tauzin.
Another Black strategy, when possible, is to bring the lambs to the lion’s den. Why in the world did Boeing move its headquarters to Jackson’s stomping grounds in Chicago? Moreover, FCC Chairman William Kennard appeared, bearing gifts, at a two-day conference in Chicago that was organized by Jesse Jackson. To rousing applause, Kennard told the conference that he would "complete a proceeding to explore new incentives for minority owners." But as Ken Johnson correctly warned afterward, "We do not believe it is within the scope of the FCC to dictate quotas for broadcasting licenses."
Jackson’s Rainbow / PUSH coalition previously announced that it would form a rating system to evaluate performance opportunities at media companies. Of course, one must always question Jackson’s motives when he is backed by armies of tax payer-funded lawyer hit men in the Department of Justice and the Department of Labor, all drooling over alleged grievances about minority employment and job training.
NAACP President Mfume also used a challenging, confrontational style, calling TV programs an "outrage ... a virtual whitewash," because of the lack of minority representation. The need to write in more roles for minorities under court threat is pure chutzpah. How about counting the number of minority players on baseball, football, and basketball teams, and insisting that some Black players be dropped because there seems to be a virtual blackball of White players? How about redirecting the disproportionate amount of NFL philanthropy from Black colleges to White-only universities?
Who is going to stand up to this absurd illogic, and throw this extortion, protection, and numbers racket onto the rubbish heap of history? It should be our government, but they have become so politically correct (PC) that even the Republicans are now adding to the problem. Since President Bush took office, Republican reverse discrimination has only intensified. Bush has appointed an African-American Secretary of Education who had never held office above the county level. When Bush’s first choice for Secretary of Labor bowed out, he selected another non-White woman. In the wake of Trent Lott’s mugging and downfall, which was hastened by a big push from the Black establishment, Republican National Chairman Marc Racicot will very likely hire Blacks over more qualified Whites from now on. Can anyone say quota?
Where is it written that we must have a quota of minorities, often less qualified, in every segment of business, education, media, and government? What has happened to the concept of equality and competition? The US becomes a very scary place when our basic values are under threat.
Affirmative Action
All discussions of affirmative action should begin with the reading of the definition of discrimination. According to the Random House College Dictionary, discrimination is "treatment or distinction based on individual merit in favor or against a person, group, etc."
By promoting a system of race-based entitlement, Affirmative Action is keeping America from evolving into a colorblind society where people are judged by their abilities rather than the color of their skin. Affirmative Action is a system of racial preferences and quotas that denies opportunity to individuals solely because they are not members of a preferred race or ethic group. By locking deserving Whites out of schools to make room for minorities with much weaker records, Affirmative Action exacerbates racial divisions.
Affirmative Action is in fact a smoke screen for discrimination. In Europe, it is called "positive discrimination," but even the judges on our Supreme Court continue to rationalize its use of. "A racially diverse and ethnically diverse student body produces significant educational benefits such that diversity constitutes a compelling government interest," wrote Judge Patrick Duggan in his justification of the University of Michigan’s use of racial preferences in its admissions policy.
In actuality, Affirmative Action is primarily a powerful force for perpetuating preferential treatment and discrimination based on race, sex, ethnic origin, or some other approved badge of victimization. It does not assure equality of opportunity, but rather judicially enforced equality of outcome. As Ken Smith wrote in the Washington Times, "Skin color quotas are just quotas by another name. Henceforth, judges will be looking over the shoulders of school administrators to determine when the skin color bonus is too high or perhaps not high enough."
Since the University of Michigan’s own expert studies confirm that the value of ethnic diversity is slight, the University is just trying to get a racial mix for its own sake. This is illegal. Why should an individual be required to give up a chance to attend a state-run school solely because their skin color is not right for the current racial mix? Recently, an Appeals Court stuck down an admissions plan that resulted in a 15-year-old White girl being denied admission in favor of lower-scoring Black and Hispanic students. It should be made clear that school officials lack the authority to assign students by race to achieve a desired racial mix. Michigan voted for Proposal 2, which would add this language to the state constitution.
The state shall not discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contacting.
These words, which were once the foundation of the Civil Rights Movement and our country’s laws, are unacceptable to the "civil wrongs" puppet masters, who spent $3 million in their unsuccessful attempt to defeat the measure by using sick ads like this one on Detroit radio.
If you could have prevented 9/11 from ever happening ... would you have? If you could have prevented Katrina from ever happening ... what would you have done? On November 7, a national disaster headed for Michigan ... the elimination of affirmative action. And on November 7, there’s only one way to stop this disaster ... by voting no on Proposal 2.
When will young people stop being puppets of the Left wing and the civil rights con men, and realize that their naïve support of Affirmative Action will negatively impact their lives and generations to follow? Why bother continuing an illegal, immoral, and divisive program when the Educational Testing Service expects college enrollment to swell over the next 15 years with Black, Hispanic, and Asian students accounting for 80% of the growth? Will Whites, then the minority on campuses in California, the District of Columbia, Hawaii, New Mexico, and soon thereafter in Texas, become a protected class, and be given all the racial preferences currently offered to other minorities?
Dummying Down our Universities
Education officials worry that the number of minority newcomers will not be sufficiently prepared for the rigors of higher education. How do the NAACP and other minority organizations like the University of California Latino Eligibility Task Force respond to the fact that Blacks and Latinos don’t perform well on College Board Tests? They employ what I call a "color the facts" strategy, which highlights the differences between Whites and protected groups.
First, they hire an expert booster, who they know will support their position. The expert then prepares a slick statistical presentation of the obvious. Scores for Blacks, Latinos, and American Indians were drastically lower then those of Whites and Asian-Americans. They then play the victim card and present a series of lame, illogical excuses for the poor performance of minorities that would be laughable if the problem wasn’t so serious.
For example, the Director of the Princeton Review attributed lower test scores by minorities to stereotypes that result in a self-fulfilling prophesy: minority fear of tests resulted in their avoiding them, waiting until the last moment to prepare, and not preparing adequately. Thus, the NAACP wants the importance of the College Board tests reduced, rather then having minorities compete fairly with other students who cared more, studied longer, and got better grades.
Another reason the minority establishment wants to abolish testing is that exit exams rightly expose grade inflation as a cruel hoax. Just ask Bridget, a Black student, who was graduating as the class valedictorian from Fortier High School in New Orleans, Louisiana. Despite her superior grades, she could not pass a math proficiency test required for graduation. In states without such tests, she would have received a scholarship to some prestigious university. Bridget is not alone; four out of ten freshmen from Louisiana’s public high schools must take remedial, noncredit courses in college, according to the Council for a Better Louisiana.
The arrogance and incompetence of today’s crop of Black leaders have blinded them and their fellow underachievers in the educational bureaucracy. Always acting the victim to milk the system makes some leaders rich, but will never boost Black student performance. If the NAACP and groups representing Hispanics win the battle and lower the bar, the quiet contempt and stigma towards minority students will be reinforced, as will ideas of inferiority harbored by Blacks and Hispanics themselves.
As Thomas Sowell has pointed out in his article "Patterns of Black Excellence," there is a tradition of Black achievement that dates to well before the civil rights era. From the post-Civil War era to the 1950’s, pupils at some leading all-Black schools in Atlanta, New Orleans, Brooklyn, and Washington DC more then held their own against White high school students. This was despite run-down facilities and fewer teachers in some of the schools. Sowell credits teachers’ high expectations of Black students for these scores, rather than bowing to the excuses for poor performance, as is often the case today.
As in the past, it is better not to lower standards. Studies show that Black students from low-income families benefit dramatically from schools where standards are set high, more personal instruction is involved, and teachers are held accountable. This was the conclusion of a report issued by the organization Education Trust. The group took a close look at 366 elementary and secondary schools where students performed above average on math and reading tests in spite of poverty levels that qualified them as Title I schools, eligible for Federal assistance. The success factors included teachers and staff who were held accountable and increased time allotted for reading and math.
Texas did a better job than most states in closing the achievement gap between students of different races. Analysts believe they know why: schools have no choice. To earn a recognized rating, each school has to make sure that 80% of each racial group passes state tests. This
differs from rating schools using average test scores, which allows schools to focus on higher-performing students. The Texas system forces principals to make sure that every group of students is learning.
In the end, no amount of Affirmative Action can make up for 12 years of a poor education. Washington, DC is the epicenter of what was once called the soft bigotry of low expectations. Almost two-thirds of DC’s ten year olds cannot read with any degree of understanding, and the district sits near the bottom of the national educational rankings. Poor Black residents are searching for change. Several congressmen think school vouchers are the best way to force failing schools to perform better, and give minorities more control over their education choice lives.
Quotas versus Quality in the Workplace
The reason for the decline in the US worker correlates directly to the decline in our educational system. We are turning out high school students who can’t pass a basic competency exam. Then we give them a free pass to college, where they double major in Hate America Revisionist History and Hyphenated Studies Programs. Minority recruiters then recruit these incompetents for employment. This is hardly a formula for success in the work place, or for the US to compete on the global stage.
Black Studies
Around the time of Malcolm X’s rule, Black students on college campuses were demanding classes that focused on Black history and minority studies rather then the traditional White version of history. This has made it difficult, if not impossible, to reverse the brainwashing going on in our schools or to fire the professors that are using these worthless programs as bully pulpits to pump their delusions of grandeur and one-sided anti-American extremist views at the expense of basic education.
In high demand by our public supported colleges are former Black Panther criminals and Left-wing radicals who, as professors, inculcate our impressionable students with their distorted views of history, making themselves heroes against "the man." This educational system, which makes heroes out of criminals, encourages some of our best college athletes to make gang signs on national TV after winning championship football games. We were recently treated on TV to an overpaid Ivy League professor dressing like a pimp to support of his "brother" Harry Bellefonte’s right to call the President of the United States the world’s greatest terrorist.
Sadly, the current Black leaders do not have the character or moral strength or earned respect of someone like the late Roy Wilkins Jr. of the NAACP. In an encounter with James Farmer, the founder of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), Wilkins summed up the traditional view of the Civil Rights Movement, and how it differs from what is believed today.
I have a problem with the whole concept [Affirmative Action]. What you are asking for is not equal treatment, but special treatment to make up for unequal treatment of the past. I think that’s outside the American tradition and the country won’t buy it. I don’t feel at all comfortable asking for special treatment; I just want to be treated like everyone else.
The Sorry State of Black Leadership
Jessie Jackson
Jessie Jackson, in my personal opinion, is the worst of the Black leaders. His ego, need for control, greed, and stamina keep him looking for the next mark or opportunity to exploit. He uses his high profile to promote racial division,
and to support the American haters at home and abroad for his own enrichment and promotion.
We have reviewed his greed earlier in this chapter, but his chutzpah, inflated ego, and self-serving opportunism continue to both amaze and scare me. He is so obvious as he tries to costume his addiction to headlines, respectability, and money with his colorful poetic preacher rhetoric. This hypocrite, known to have a mistress, counseled President Clinton after the Lewinsky affair. Jackson and Clinton did have something in common, according to Ken Timmerman, author of Shakedown – they are both compulsive liars.
Timmerman outlines lies about Jackson’s athletic and academic achievements, as well as the spin regarding his actions during the assassination of Martin Luther King. For example, Timmerman reports that Jessie Jackson was not on the balcony when King was killed, when Jackson and his camp have tried to show a picture of Jackson up on the balcony with King. The picture in question was actually taken the day before. It was in fact a publicity shot.
Though never elected, this troublemaker often goes over the President’s head to get his unwelcome oar into foreign policy areas. It appears that if he can embarrass the US and get a few bucks while visiting a foreign dictator, like Omar Khadafi in Libya, it is all the better. His meetings at the United Nations with Kofi Anon to discuss Iraq undermined our State Department. His visit to Castro’s buddy, Hugo Chavez, provided support for this anti-US radical. Jackson also tried to influence how Venezuelan oil is distributed and priced in the US. He showed up to direct the flow of billions of Federal funds to storm-ravaged New Orleans. Like the Black Caucus, Jackson was quick to assign racially motivated blame for the way the disaster was mishandled. Lately, he even suggested that attacks on Barry Bonds’ records are also racially motivated, rather then caused by alleged steroid use.
Jessie Jackson Accused of "Racketeering" by Top Black Businessman
One of America’s wealthiest African-Americans, asked by Jessie Jackson to assist with Jackson’s "Wall Street Project," said that the tactics used by the civil rights leader amounted to "racketeering." Harold Doley, Jr, a broadcasting executive, rated as one of the country’s 100 wealthiest African-Americans by a newsletter covering Blacks on Wall Street, said that he was the victim of intimidation at the hands of Jackson. Doley is fighting the Federal Communications Commission’s efforts to block the sale of his television stations.
After initial exuberance about Jackson’s stated goal of "making corporate America look more like America from the entry level to the board room," Doley became disillusioned. Jackson, who seems to believe he has an inalienable right to get a piece of someone else’s pie, went after the multi-trillion dollar pension fund i