Discrimination

Some people get all the breaks. But the question is: discrimination or bigotry? Discrimination allows you to tell the difference between red and blue. Bigotry is hating blue for some arbitrary reason.

...when statistics about other racial differences have been cited in the same strident voices when other statistics showed blacks laid off more than whites during economic downturns or the children of black women having higher infant mortality rates than the children of white women.

What we have very seldom seen or heard in such parading of statistics are other statistics— which are readily available— showing that (1) whites are turned down for mortgage loans more often than Asian Americans, (2) whites resort to subprime loans more often than Asian Americans, (3) whites have been laid off more in a downturn than Asian Americans, and (3) the children of white mothers have higher infant mortality rates than the children of mothers of Filipino or Mexican ancestry, even though these mothers receive less prenatal care than white mothers.

So are whites suffering from discrimination or they the victims of bigotry? There is no way just a number can tell that story. You have to look into the hearts of men.

H/T Jccarlton at Talk Polywell

Attack Of The Ludicrats

My friend Eric at Classical Values has a post up about Noose Crime. It is image rich and covers hanging through the ages. It has pictures of Nazis post hanging and Saddam pre-hanging. He also covers the fact that lynching was used by Democrats to intimidate Republicans during the Reconstruction and Jim Crow eras. Nice fellers those Democrats. They do seem to get a bit carried away by their enthusiasms though.

It is my opinion that the current spate of anti-noose laws is being promulgated by Ludicrats. There seem to be a lot of them around these days.

The Way It Was

There used to be a lot of discrimination in the Marine Corps against blacks. That has changed. However the old days are being documented. Lest we forget.

LaSalle Vaughn said the hardest thing in his 23-year career as a Marine was being passed over for promotion and retiring as a staff sergeant despite passing the test for a higher rank.

He said it was because he declined to work for yet another general as a steward, a type of personal assistant.

"My life in the Marine Corps was hard because every base I went on, there was nothing but discrimination," said Vaughn, who was one of the first black men to enter the Marine Corps in 1942.

However, the outspoken 83-year-old Port Royal resident has garnered much more recognition since his retirement than he did in the Marines because of his insistence on passing on the story of the first black Marines, who were trained at Montford Point, N.C., from 1942 to 1949.

Vaughn was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the Montford Point Marine Association in July, and a documentary on the Montford Point Marines, for which he served as one of the advisers, is set to air on public television stations in the Carolinas starting in September and nationwide in November.

The story of the 20,000 black recruits who trained at the segregated base was threatening to be swept under the rug. He said he asked a recruit at a speaking engagement whether he had heard of Montford Point Marines.

The Navy used to discriminate against Jews. Rickover changed that. He has a submarine named after him.

Or we could talk about the Marine's General Honore. Famous for asking a reporter why he was "stuck on stupid". My kind of Marine.

Semper Fi.