Archive for July, 2006

Not be judged by the color of their skin. Martin Luther King, Jr. MCRI

Wednesday, July 26th, 2006

“I have a dream my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by content of their character.” Martin Luther King, Jr.
How can we accept that these have become deeply ironic words? Can anyone read them and not feel how […]

Just can’t do it. Shelby Steele. MCRI

Wednesday, July 5th, 2006

“A society as enormously powerful as America lacks the authority to ask its most brilliant, wealthy and superbly educated minority students to compete freely for college admission with poor whites who lack all these things. Just can’t do it.” -Shelby Steele
By definition, preferential treatment is not about equal treatment or competition; it’s about how […]