Brave Daniel Cameron joins righteous fight against out-of-control Black privilege

Kentucky attorney general and Republican gubernatorial nominee Daniel Cameron recently jumped headfirst into the anti-affirmative action fray when he joined Republican attorneys general from Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas and Montana in sending a letter warning executives at America’s 100 largest law firms that they must “refrain from discriminating [in hiring] on the basis of race, whether under the label of 'diversity, equity, and inclusion' or otherwise.”

Cameron and his colleagues were muscular in reminding these firms that any race-based initiatives to increase Black representation among their employees or contractors are not only divisive, but now illegal. They were clear that these firms better discontinue such practices (if they had them at all) or they would be “held accountable.”

It’s about time, don’t you think?

Though he will be criticized by the unwashed and ill-informed, Good Brother Cameron has now locked arms with a brave multi-racial coalition of American heroes like Clarence Thomas and Edward Blum who are pushing back against out-of-control Black privilege that is ruining the country.

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Let’s be honest, we don’t need more Black lawyers. There are tons of Black lawyers, law students and judges now, right? They’re overrepresented in every law firm, law school and courtroom in most states, correct? The ABA Journal reports that 5% of lawyers are Black. Affirmative action has opened the door for that imbalance. It’s just plain old Black privilege and it needs to stop.

The law is just one area where Black Americans are now ruling the world

It started with sports and has bled out from there. Black men took all the positions in football and basketball, the country’s most popular games, years ago. Now they won’t even reserve the quarterback and middle linebacker spots for white guys. To add insult to injury, they are now wrongfully paying Black college athletes millions. They’re all rich now – all of them! What a shame.

All the good coaching jobs are now going to Black people, too. There are three Black head coaches in the NFL which had 56.4% Black players in 2022. I even heard that some fellow named Magic Johnson is now part-owner of an NFL team. Before you know it, there will be no more white coaches or owners! It’s insane! For God’s sake, every American women’s singles champion at the U.S. Open tennis tournament since 1999 has been Black. The latest is some girl from Atlanta with a weird name like Coco! All this has to be happening because of the Black privilege and affirmative action advantages afforded to Black men and women in every walk of life.

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Have you looked at the Black enrollment numbers at Ivy League schools?

Brother Clarence Thomas and the Supreme Court were right to agree with Edward Blum that unfair affirmative action measures that gave Black students an overwhelming advantage when applying to predominantly white colleges and universities needed to end. Have you looked at the Black enrollment numbers at Ivy League schools? Black students have flat out taken over institutions like Harvard, Yale and Brown. It’s no surprise that they’ve overrun less selective schools as well.

And, by the way, did you know the numbers of Black university presidents, high-level administrators, corporate executives, professors, doctors, political leaders and everything else are ridiculously high? This isn’t integration; it’s an invasion and it must be stopped!

Let’s keep it real. We all know that everything white people have gotten in America is because of merit. They’ve never been given a leg up because of race. It’s all been good hard work and individual effort. Black people should do the same because the advantages they’ve gotten from affirmative action and other unfair pro-Black policies are just wrong, divisive and damaging.

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Oh, did I mention there has even been a Black president of the United States? It’ll be amazing if any well-deserving white man ever wins that office again!

So, kudos to Daniel Cameron and others who are doing their level-best to end this madness. The limiting of opportunities for these out-of-control Black people and their snobbish, entitled children is needed more than ever, isn’t it? I knew you’d agree.

Dr. Ricky L. Jones is the Baldwin-King Scholar-in-Residence at the Christina Lee Brown Envirome Institute and Professor of Pan-African Studies, University of Louisville. His column appears bi-weekly in the Courier-Journal. Follow him on Threads, Facebook, X, and LinkedIn.

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