Diversity

I read a story the other day that the newly formed debt committee doesn't represent the minority well enough and isn't diverse enough. I don't know the specifics of how many people are on the committee or their partisan affiliation but I know that there is one woman, one African American, and one Latino. Why do I know those specifics? I know them because the media makes it an issue or rather the writers and editors on foxnews.com choose to make sure I was aware of those statistics.

That brings me to my point, labeling an issue or situation as non-diverse is the politically correct way of calling is racist. However, labeling it as non-diverse makes it a race related issue. We choose to create racial tension by constantly focusing on race as a central issue in any given situation but in reality it usually isn't a problem much less the problem. We don't however when it isn't beneficial to our movement. For instance I've never meet a hunter that wanted to mix duck populations in the name of diversity because it just wasn't fair. I've never meet one that said White Tail Deer and Mule Deer should be moved from one area to another to diversify the population because them being isolated and segregated just isn't fair. I hear your argument already, they're animals and there is no need so I'll give you another example. Have you ever had a child ask you to move them to a move diverse class? No you haven't because it isn't an issue to children it's as issue we create as adults.

You can go to www.wral.com and view mugshots of recently arrested individuals in our county, I looked at the first 100 arrest today and 61 were African American males. Should we ask officers to be more diverse in their arrest? Should we ask them to move to a quota system that mirrors the community? 5 percent Asian American women, 3 percent Asian American males, 17 percent of this and 25 percent of that?

I then watched an episode of cops where the individual being arrested said it was because cops with honky redneck racist, was it that or was it the crack rock he had on him marijuana or loaded gun he wasn't licensed for?

My point in this is race is not an issue until we choose to use it to detract from the reality of the situation. Unless someone is blatant in their intention to be racist to assume something is racist is to be just that.