Alternet author Adam Peck does a good job of showing the humour in Joseph Epstein’s massively egotistical and racist WSJ Op-Ed in which Epstein proposes, “we need more rich white men in power, preferably WASPs,” and goes on to say,
There are a lot of problems in Washington, D.C these days, but not many solutions to them. Inefficiency, an allergy to cooperation, and stiff resistance to pragmatism have all ground the federal government to a stand-still. But one op-ed contributor to the Wall Street Journal knows what the real problem is: not enough rich, white men.
In Saturday’s paper and online, author Joseph Epstein mourns the collapse of what he describes as the “genuine ruling class, drawn from what came to be known as the WASP establishment,” (WASP, the commonly-held acronym for White, Anglo-Saxon Protestant). Instead, he argues, we are living in a meritocracy, governed not by an elite subset of the uppermost crust of society but rather by a group of people who overcame some kind of adversity and achieved success thanks to their own merits, not based on what family they were born into. This, according to Epstein, is a tragedy.
Crazy!
Yeah … 🙁
We need more Blackmen/women in powerful places and businesses [including wall streets ] that don’t forget where they came from. Its shameful our Black children are not being educated in bilingual and business skills at an early age as are other ethnicities. This should be done in kindergarten so are prepared to compete in todays job/financial marketplace.
I learned from Nathaniel Briggs, the son of the first signer of the lawsuit that became Brown v. Education, that the intention of the men and women who signed onto that lawsuit did not wish for their children’s schools to integrate with white schools. That became a requirement of the judge who tried the case. The signers wanted equal education and equal access to funding, books, facilities … but they had great teachers and a strong, positive spirit of academic excellence in their community schools and they assumed these assets would be enhanced by full government support.
What happened was something quite different …