The rationale for
the separate minority awards and scholarships is that minorities were
under-represented or overlooked. When Hattie McDaniel broke the color barrier
at the Academy Awards, receiving top honors for Best Supporting Actress in her
role as Mammy in "Gone With The Wind," no one seriously thought
"Negroes" would be regular future recipients in 1939. Hattie,
however, could not be ignored. One could make the case that for decades the
separate awards and scholarships were appropriate. But we have come so far with
integration (even electing and reelecting a Black president [actually
half-Black]) that people are barely conscious of differences - unless that
attention is imposed upon people.
I'll make one
example, and see if you agree: After baseball became integrated and became
well-staffed with Black, Latino, Asian and Caucasian players - based entirely
upon their performance value to a team, do we still need a "Negro Baseball
League?" I submit that many of these relics, such as the National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), are no longer needed
to promote equality, rather to keep the wounds of the past open for some other
gain or reparation, and they have been co-opted by the political left to
exploit past grievances for contemporary political gain.
The modern welfare
state was created to get and keep minorities in the Democrat party. Lyndon
Johnson was famously quoted as saying: "I'll have those niggers voting
Democrat for the next 200 years." Keeping people in a victim class and in
government dependency hurts as much, if not more, than segregation. The need
for parallel race recognition awards ended a long time ago.
