Here’s your White Privilege armband!

[Neal Boortz]

Some government schools in Wisconsin have adopted a program being
promoted by Americacorp�s VISTA � Volunteers In Service To America � arm.
These schools are telling white students to wear white armbands to
remind them of their �white privilege.� These Wisconsin schools also
have special training programs for teachers that focus on �whiteness� and
�white privilege.� Oh wow � if I were on the air, could I do an hour or
so on this or what? White privilege? Oh .. you mean the privilege of
shouldering the bulk of the cost of government � way out of proportion to
the percentage of whites in our population? Do you mean the privilege of
creating and providing most of the private sector jobs in America? Do
you mean the privilege of not being able to use our skin color as an
excuse for every personal failure? Do mean the privilege of having to
actually qualify for any job we might apply for, instead of being able to
take advantage of some minority set-aside like those in the new Atlanta
football stadium deal? Is it THOSE white privileges you�re talking
about?



They better be black! We can talk about black privilege too. In Georgia
the Governor is now working to replace six members of the DeKalb County
School Board. He fired six members because the schools were about to
lose their accreditation. Now it�s up to him to replace them. Now you
would think that DeKalb County leaders and parents would want their
schools to be the best they can be --- which would mean that you would be
wanting the Governor to appoint the absolute best people he could find
willing to serve on the school board. But noooooooo. So called �civil
rights leaders� in DeKalb County are demanding that some � perhaps the
majority � of the appointees be black. The government made the grievous
error of suggesting that there aren�t that many qualified blacks who have
applied for the positions? Now that would actually make sense. If
you�re a black resident of DeKalb County with the qualifications it takes
to be an effective member of the school board � a school board faced with
the task of saving the system � in all likelihood you�ve already found a
position in the private sector that pays more. Why would you want to
abandon that position for this thankless task. That matters not, though,
to the �civil rights� leaders. The decisions on the new school board
appointees must be made on the basis of group qualifications rather than
individual qualifications. Some of the appointees MUST be black,
regardless of whether or not they are the most qualified. Nobody is
saying that some of the appointees MUST be white. So let�s have a
discussion on black privilege!