Color New Line The reviews
This is a thought-provoking book that may make the reader angry at times to read about the discrimination against whites under the guise of affirmative action. The ideals of hiring the best qualified person for the job is being destroyed by the desire to have equality of results and not equal opportunity. This practice can be dangerous such as in fields like medicine, if doctors are certified because of race and not because of competence.
The authors talk a lot about how it is essential to have good will among citizens for a democratic government to work. The reader may come to the conclusion that in a free society you may have to give fellow citizens freedom of association and even the freedom to discriminate, rather than coercing people by the power of federal bureacracy to hire without discriminating. It is pointed out that if an employer does not hire on merit alone, his business will be uncompetitive in the market. Essentially, we have an ineffecient market now because the best qualified are not hired according to ability. The social thinker Gunnar Myrdal thought that democracy could not get rid of racism, perhaps because of this lack of good will, and decided it would be better to enforce equality with the power of the state in his highly influential book An American Dilemma.
The New Color Line covers the Brown court decision in which the authors give evidence of this being the beginnings of what is called rule by judges or judicial tyranny today. Legal precedent was swept away for touchy feely sociological arguments based on doubtful research that the judges would base their decisions upon. “Creative judicial decisions” similar to “creative bookkeeping” that did not have any basis in the constitution were imposed on the populace. The authors also give evidence that the some of court’s decisions came about by unethical dealings. Civil rights were also to be totally decided by congress through legislation, and not by the judicial branch. Separation of powers
The New Color Line