The Preference Pie: A Civil Rights Allegory by Diane Carey
THE PREFERENCE PIE
A white boy wants to go to college. He comes from a small city in Michigan.
A white girl also wants to go to college, in the field of finance. She also lives in mid-Michigan with her parents and two brothers.
An adopted Guatemalan boy is growing up in Michigan too. He likes football and video games.
When the white boy applies for college, his application will be pushed aside in preference to the girl. After all, she’s a girl. Girls get extra “favors.” Even though the boy might need help, he won’t get it. He’s white.
But along comes the Hispanic boy. Being brown, he gets more “minority”points, so the white girl gets pushed aside too. Someday when these three want government jobs or contracts, the Hispanic boy will get favors for being brown-skinned, while the girl might get a little extra, but less than the brown boy. The white boy gets left out completely.
Meanwhile, a second girl has appeared. She’s half-black, half-white, which qualifies her as “black.” Since she’s “black” and female, our state government will give her even more “equal opportunity” than the others.
Fantasy? No, this is reality. All these children are in one family . . . mine.
The white boy, the white girl, and the Hispanic boy are my own children. They’re growing up in the same house, but the government is pitting them against each other in the name of “diversity.”
The half-black girl is my niece, and she lives in a $450,000 house. But she’s technically a “black” female, and that trumps everything when pieces of the preference pie are doled out.
Or does it? She has a brother who’s half-black, half-Puerto Rican. Does that make him more “diverse” than his own sister? Will he get an even bigger piece of the pie? Who’s DNA “wins”?
My children and their cousins are not wooden game pieces. They’re individuals. Why would I vote to discriminate against my white son? Why would I vote to give my daughter or my brown son favors they didn’t earn? What kind of mother would I be?
I’m voting YES on Proposal 2, the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative. Race preferences are not “diversity.” They’re just racism with a different-colored hood.
Diane Carey is a Michigan native, a New York Times Bestselling author, columnist, and small-business owner.
A white boy wants to go to college. He comes from a small city in Michigan.
A white girl also wants to go to college, in the field of finance. She also lives in mid-Michigan with her parents and two brothers.
An adopted Guatemalan boy is growing up in Michigan too. He likes football and video games.
When the white boy applies for college, his application will be pushed aside in preference to the girl. After all, she’s a girl. Girls get extra “favors.” Even though the boy might need help, he won’t get it. He’s white.
But along comes the Hispanic boy. Being brown, he gets more “minority”points, so the white girl gets pushed aside too. Someday when these three want government jobs or contracts, the Hispanic boy will get favors for being brown-skinned, while the girl might get a little extra, but less than the brown boy. The white boy gets left out completely.
Meanwhile, a second girl has appeared. She’s half-black, half-white, which qualifies her as “black.” Since she’s “black” and female, our state government will give her even more “equal opportunity” than the others.
Fantasy? No, this is reality. All these children are in one family . . . mine.
The white boy, the white girl, and the Hispanic boy are my own children. They’re growing up in the same house, but the government is pitting them against each other in the name of “diversity.”
The half-black girl is my niece, and she lives in a $450,000 house. But she’s technically a “black” female, and that trumps everything when pieces of the preference pie are doled out.
Or does it? She has a brother who’s half-black, half-Puerto Rican. Does that make him more “diverse” than his own sister? Will he get an even bigger piece of the pie? Who’s DNA “wins”?
My children and their cousins are not wooden game pieces. They’re individuals. Why would I vote to discriminate against my white son? Why would I vote to give my daughter or my brown son favors they didn’t earn? What kind of mother would I be?
I’m voting YES on Proposal 2, the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative. Race preferences are not “diversity.” They’re just racism with a different-colored hood.
Diane Carey is a Michigan native, a New York Times Bestselling author, columnist, and small-business owner.
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