Tough Toe Nails Needed to Overcome Bias?

Letter to Romans: Recall how racism evolved into institutional racism then evolved into DEI & even evolved into reverse discrimination. Recent claims by pols who have done well by the finger pointing suggests it will die hard, if ever.

Consider the latest victimization rant of NYC Mayor-elect Mamdani & his promise to tax WHITE neighborhoods more than MINORITY neighborhoods, even though Blacks, Hispanics & Asians combined per the 2020 Census make up over 60% of the city’s population, while Whites clock in about 31%. (So who’s the Majority & who’s the Minority?) The social media response by whites (including Yours Truly), of course, pointed out how the U.S. Supreme Court has already ruled such blatantly reverse discrimination schemes are unconstitutional.

What the purveyors of “institutional” bias & the inevitable victimization claims that follow can’t seem to grasp is that institutional discrimination against races, ethnic groups, social classes, genders & religions has ALWAYS existed … and that each victimized group has historical horror stories to tell. Jews certainly do, no? So do USA Catholics until one finally was “allowed” to be POTUS. And, if anyone thinks my growing up as a blue collar Polish Catholic on the South Side of Chicago was somehow “privileged” they are not looking at the tape showing a sad soul in the 60s & 70s working his way through 7 years of college & law school to find the city’s white shoes legal profession was dominated by law firms predominantly owned by White men who were Protestants or Jewish. Try being a Polish Catholic in those days without an Ivy League degree & landing a job at Kirkland & Ellis. Yet, I and many of the similarly oppressed Blacks & Hispanics & Asians I grew up with still found a way to get a slice of the American Pie in suburbia. The secret sauce in overcoming this Sweet Home Chicago pecking order that’s arguably embedded in human DNA if not the universe since Creation? Perhaps it was a tough as nails work ethic rather than a demoralizing victimization mentality.

Davd Soul