In Nebraska, the biggest groups of minority students are Asian, black and Latino students. It is widely known that Asian students excel without preferential treatment. Therefore Latino and black students are left. To suggest that those racial groups need preferential treatment in order to compete is an arrogant position of white supremacists.
It's one thing to argue - as Clarence Thomas and others do - that affirmative action is paternalistic. It's quite another to call it white supremacist, especially when white supremacist groups have been outspokenly opposed to affirmative action for the last 40-50 years. Oh, but it gets much more twisted! The writer, Mr. Krynsky, is the local chapter leader of the Minutemen; a group with well-known ties to extreme right and racist groups and individuals.* According to Anti-Defamation League archives on extremist protests, Nebraska Minuteman held the protest at the Mexican Consulate in Omaha last year, where white supremacists were out in open display.
Something else a bit bizarre is this statement:
The United States became a world superpower without affirmative action. Actually, now we are in decline. This process approximately corresponds with the duration of affirmative action. Is this a coincidence?
Well if it isn't coincidence then the implication is that letting blacks and women participate fully in society as human beings destroyed America's superpower status. Stating such nonsense outright would look like... well, racist nonsense. Points for originality I guess, I hadn't ever heard the line that affirmative action destroyed America.
*Minutemen split over a year ago into two sides, between Chris Simcox (with Minutemen Civil Defense Corps, MCDC) and Jim Gilchrist (Minuteman Project). Simcox's MCDC, of which Nebraska Minuteman is a part, is perhaps the more racist of the two factions to emerge. This, of course, is a little like saying one lake's water is wetter than another.
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