Reminding Us Why Racial Preferences are a Bad Idea
By George Leef December 20, 2018
Jason Riley, one of my favorite writers, is black and opposes racial preferences (for all groups) on the grounds that they don’t solve underlying problems, sow discord, and become a source of political chicanery. A few years back, he wrote a very illuminating book entitled, Please Stop Helping Us in which he explained why the whole array of governmental policies supposedly meant to enable blacks and other minority groups succeed are counterproductive and should be ended.
Riley is willing to say something that almost no other black intellectuals dare to say — that racial preferences are both wrong and harmful. In his December 11th Wall Street Journal column, he shows that preferences have not only caused trouble in the U.S. but in other nations as well. He focuses on Malaysia, where official policy has favored members of the Malay majority at the expense of the Chinese minority since the 1950s. The preferences were originally supposed to have ended in 1991, but that proved to be politically impossible as Malays said they were not yet ready to compete with the Chinese on a level playing field.
https://www.mindingthecampus.org/2018/12/20/reminding-us-why-racial-preferences-are-a-bad-idea/
