Signpost 1. Bush Bash. I agree that Dad’s influence benefited Dubya, but a better example would be the Kennedy’s. Here Dad’s influence got all his sons into Harvard. He manipulated the news media to create JFK as a war hero and then bankrolled this fabrication to the presidency. How’s that for influence?
Signpost 2. Blame the Victim. Ms. Gratz was complicit in her misfortune. She failed to recognize that her performance and character would be canceled by the University of Michigan’s application of a policy of discriminatory injustice.
Signpost 3. Personalize the Injustice. Sorry for your son’s bout with injustice. My son was accepted into Rutgers Medical School but no doubt benefited from my considerable influence as a first generation Euro-American from an Irish ghetto in the South Bronx.
Signpost 4. Obfuscate the Debate. Inundate the reader with a mixture of antebellum and postbellum facts and factoids that serve as the foundation for a point of view. My reading of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the U.S. Constitution fails to reveal the birthright Dunn cites.
Martin Luther King Jr. never sought affirmative action. He would have recognized it for what it is, racial discrimination. It is only today’s race merchants and revisionist liberals who reject the guarantee for equality of opportunity and embrace a demand for a guarantee of equality of results. Two wrongs never make a right.
Michael J. Keogh
Pinehurst
