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Have squatters’ rights in race and gender privileges canceled equality under law?

Paul Craig Roberts

It is difficult to choose whether it is the New York Times, NPR, or CNN that is America’s worst enemy, but combined the three comprise an effective force that has destroyed the belief system that once made the United States a united nation.

The 14th amendment to the US constitution, ratified in 1868, requires the equal applicability of law to every citizen. This means that the 14th amendment prevents any legal privileges or administrative preferences for any American on the basis of race, gender, creed, birth, class, or religious relief. Equality under law does not mean or require  equality of result. However, ever since Alfred Blumrosen at the EEOC stood the 1964 Civil Rights Act on its head and imposed race and gender quotas explicitly prohibited by the 1964 Civil Rights Act, American liberals have succeeded in substituting legal privileges for “preferred minorities” in the place of equal treatment under law.

The debate over the 1964 Civil Rights Act was a debate about racial quotas. The civil rights act could not pass until statutory language and amendments were added that expressly prohibited quotas. The turning point was when Senator Everett Dirksen inserted what is probably the longest sentence in the English language, which expressly and unambiguously forbids quotas. The 170-word sentence is worth reading in full. Entitled “Preferential treatment not to be granted on account of existing number or percentage imbalance,” the provision said:...........more............