Yesterday, the Congressional Black Caucus complained that there were not enough black owned businesses participating in the bailout. Then some women’s groups complained that there were not enough women owned businesses participating in the bailout. Those are ridiculous statements on their face.

The statements are saying that the government has to check on who owns a business before they can participate in the bailout. The criterion is then not if you need a bailout but whether you are part of the correct group to receive the funds. That defeats the purpose of the bailout which is to give funds to those businesses that are in danger of folding. If it is no longer whether your business is failing that determines the receipt of bailout funds, the funds are no longer a bailout but a gift or welfare. The whole purpose of the bailout was to help those large businesses that were in danger of going under. There was no thought given to what racial group or sex of the owners of the large corporations in question. In fact, most of those large corporations are owned by more than one person and they are usually of more than one sex and color, though not all.

The second thing about the statements of the Congressional Black Caucus and the women’s groups is the recognition that the agenda of racial and sexual politics is still with us. With the election of Barack Obama, many conservative blacks voted for him with the hope that it would end racial quotas and the entire idea that one race is being discriminated against. Those of us on the conservative side who warned them that it would not happen are being proven right, but there is no satisfaction. I wish I had been wrong. I wish that it had ended the idea that we had to have racial quotas to help blacks get ahead. I abhor the thought of racial quotas. I believe that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was right when he said that people should be judged on the basis of their character, not their color. The Congressional Black Caucus thinks otherwise. They believe that they should be judged by their color, not their character.

Women’s groups are even further out of line in claiming discrimination. More women than men attend college. More women than men get a college degree. More women than men get graduate degrees. That is not discrimination. They have no leg to stand on when they claim discrimination. It is men who should be claiming discrimination. Boys are discriminated against from Kindergarten thru High School. School today is designed to teach girls. School is not designed to teach boys. The results show that the schools are successful. Boys have more excess energy than girls in elementary school. They are told to sit quietly like the girls so they can learn. They have a hard time sitting quietly when they want to run and jump. Schools are eliminating physical education where boys get the chance to run and jump. Schools are eliminating the ability of boys to run and jump during playground activities by setting up rules against it. What we need to do is have schools for girls and schools for boys where we can cater to each. We would have much more success in teaching boys than we do today. We would also have more success in teaching girls.

The statement by the Congressional Black Caucus is blatantly racist. In fact, just having a Congressional Black Caucus is racist. Having a Congressional Black Caucus is actually against the Constitution, but Congress cares little for the Constitution. Their actions show that they do not care about what the Constitution says. Someone should go through the list of Congressional Caucus groups and eliminate any that are anti-Constitutional. That would help to bring the Congress more in line with what the Founding Fathers intended our Republic to look like.

My goal in life is to have a society where it is color blind. Where people are judged for the content of their character, not for the color of their skin would be the mantra people followed. This would also include sex, religion and any other form of discrimination. People should be judged for whom they are, not what they are. That is the way that society should be, not our current quota system where everyone loses. In the quota system, the person getting the quota loses because now they are deemed less of a person. People that do not use the quota system to get ahead, but are of the same racial group, are still judged to be lesser individuals because the quota system labels them as lesser candidates. That lowers everyone instead of raising everyone. If nobody received a quota then you would have to be judged on your own accomplishments, not on your quota. That would be fair to everyone. If you succeeded, you would get the credit. On the other hand, if you failed, you would also get the credit for failing.