Culture & the Family

The industry of racial identity should have long ago been shut down

June 1, 2009

Brandon Dutcher

So argues Victor Davis Hanson today at National Review Online. Consider: "a Travis Thornberry living in Bakersfield, part of the Oklahoma Diaspora, poor and without educated parents, is entitled to no affirmative-action execmptions, but perhaps an illegal alien who crossed the border yesterday does become a 'minority' by the very loose association with the Mexican-American experience? So we use increasingly baffling circumstances to dictate who and who is not deserving of special consideration."