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Title: The New Color Line: How Quotas and Privilege Destroy Democracy by Paul Craig Roberts, Lawrence M. Jr. Stratton ISBN: 0-89526-462-5 Publisher: Regnery Publishing Pub. Date: November, 1995 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.14 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Legal Equality for All, Special Privilege for None
Comment: This is a thought-provoking book that may make the reader angry at times to read about the discrimination against whites under the guise of affirmative action. The ideals of hiring the best qualified person for the job is being destroyed by the desire to have equality of results and not equal opportunity. This practice can be dangerous such as in fields like medicine, if doctors are certified because of race and not because of competence.
The authors talk a lot about how it is essential to have good will among citizens for a democratic government to work. The reader may come to the conclusion that in a free society you may have to give fellow citizens freedom of association and even the freedom to discriminate, rather than coercing people by the power of federal bureacracy to hire without discriminating. It is pointed out that if an employer does not hire on merit alone, his business will be uncompetitive in the market. Essentially, we have an ineffecient market now because the best qualified are not hired according to ability. The social thinker Gunnar Myrdal thought that democracy could not get rid of racism, perhaps because of this lack of good will, and decided it would be better to enforce equality with the power of the state in his highly influential book An American Dilemma.
The New Color Line covers the Brown court decision in which the authors give evidence of this being the beginnings of what is called rule by judges or judicial tyranny today. Legal precedent was swept away for touchy feely sociological arguments based on doubtful research that the judges would base their decisions upon. "Creative judicial decisions" similar to "creative bookkeeping" that did not have any basis in the constitution where imposed on the populace. The authors also give evidence that the some of court's decisions came about by unethical dealings. Civil rights were also to be totally decided by congress through legislation, and not by the judicial branch. Separation of powers has ceased to exist.
One may come to the conclusion that democracy is only is good as the character and intelligence of the people in positions of power. If the constitution and law is ignored and a legal decision is unethically brought about, and people in power seemingly don't understand the perils of not sticking with the constitution, democracy ceases to exist. One wonders if they really merit their positions, but we're appointed only for ideological reasons. Actually the original civil rights act has explicit language forbidding privilege through quotas but these laws have been ignored by judges.
The authors Roberts and Stratton seem to be traditional liberals who believe in equality before the law, good will between citizens of different races, and equal opportunity, but not special privilege. The question is though, will some citizens be satisfied with just equal opportunity which will plainly show that there is no equality of talent and therefore no equality in income? A false utopian equality of result is desired more than just a meritocracy with a discontented underclass of lesser talents who will be lesser paid. Also, one may conclude by reading the book that integration with equality before the law was not successful as an ideal. In a few short years, it seemed more like a power grab by the government and the newly privileged than just an interest in equality before the law. And again, is there really enough good will between the races to have one nation? I think I like authors better who think along these lines such as Jared Taylor.
Rating: 4
Summary: Good Book - Wrong Title
Comment: The majority of the book was actually on the passage of desegratation. Very interesting though. It was a wake up call of how our judges create law rather than interpret it. There were many other instances of government social engineering interlaced among the main story.
Rating: 5
Summary: You have to be open-minded.....
Comment: I think it telling that the ANONYMOUS reviewer on Feb. 2nd below seemed to have little to say about the book, but instead bloviated about the vast-right wing conspiracy. I doubt he/she read it - probably just some Democrat intern with little else to do.
This book offered an actual in-depth inspection of the danger of allowing the courts to rule - something the Founding Fathers warned about but continues to go on with barely a mention. I think the Founding Fathers would have been disappointed in our apathy. They fought a revolution for less.
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Title: Diversity: The Invention of A Concept by Peter Wood ISBN: 1893554627 Publisher: Encounter Books Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Illusion of Victory: America in World War I by Thomas Fleming ISBN: 046502467X Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: 27 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: FDR's Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression by Jim Powell ISBN: 0761501657 Publisher: Crown Forum Pub. Date: 23 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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Title: The Tyranny of Good Intentions : How Prosecutors and Bureaucrats Are Trampling the Constitution in the Name ofJustice by Paul Craig Roberts, Lawrence M. Stratton ISBN: 076152553X Publisher: Prima Lifestyles Pub. Date: 18 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War by Thomas DiLorenzo ISBN: 0761536418 Publisher: Prima Lifestyles Pub. Date: 26 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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