Some of My Best friends Are White Males

by John W. Wallace

posted 03/15/09

Robert Reich, one of President Obama's chief economic advisors, spoke before the House Democrat Steering Committee recently and discussed the administration's proposed new $850 billion plus stimulus package that would include the creation of new construction jobs to upgrade the nation's roads and bridges. During the course of making his presentation, Mr. Reich said the following, and I quote: "I am concerned, as I'm sure many of you are, that these jobs not simply go to high-skilled people who are already professionals or to white male construction workers. … I have nothing against white male construction workers." (I'm sure that some of Mr. Reich's best friends are white male construction workers too!). He continued: "Criteria can be set so that the money does go to others, the long term unemployed minorities, women, people who are not necessarily construction workers or high-skilled professionals."

Reich was basically telling the House democrats to create some sort of "criteria" in the new economic stimulus legislation that would insure that "white male construction workers" are somehow excluded or severely limited from receiving any of these funds. It is also interesting to note that not one of the members of this congressional committee objected to such obvious proposed racial and gender discrimination. Just imagine what would happen if a new Republican administration economic advisor told members of a congressional committee that they should develop "criteria" to exclude black male construction workers from receiving federal stimulus funds. It would be on the front page of every major newspaper in the country. Have you read about Reich's racist remarks in any major newspapers or on your evening TV news?

Ever since the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964 and the creation of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in 1965, the white male has become the unofficial target of the federal government. Over the last 40 plus years, congressional legislation and the federal courts have mandated affirmative action programs, hiring quotas and set-aside business quotas that give women and minorities preference over white males. Over the last 40 plus years, congress and the federal courts have manipulated the laws so much that by 2009 just about every person in America has now become a minority except the heterosexual white male.

Mr. Reich also stated that the new economic stimulus package should have "a high social return." What the heck does that mean? It means that Reich and his accomplices in the new federal Politburo want to establish an official federal government discrimination policy against white males. They now intend to use official federal government "Racial and Gender Criteria" as a form of social engineering to determine which groups will be lucky enough to receive government money in order to achieve some sort of imaginary "high social return."

Americans from all racial, gender and ethnic groups are being taxed to pay for this economic stimulus package, (yes: including white males). Therefore, every American should have equal access to the jobs created by this plan and none should be excluded because of their race or gender.

Martin Luther King, Jr., inspired a nation when he voiced his dream for a color-blind nation, a nation in which people would be judged by the content of their characters, "not the color of their skin." The answer to Robert Reich's proposed example of legalized government racism is the concept of Liberty with a limited, constitutional government that is devoted to the protection of individual rights rather than the claims of different racial, ethnic and other special interest groups.

Where Freedom and Liberty are present, individual achievement and competence should be rewarded, not the color of a person's skin, gender, ethnicity or sexual orientation.