By Douglas V. Gibbs
My grandfather used to tell us kids about the day he was struck by lightning. He said he didn't have to turn on the lights in his house for a week because he glowed so brightly. Mom reminded us that most of Grandpa's stories were just that, stories. Nonetheless, as in the movie "Big Fish," we always assumed there was a kernal of truth in each of Grandpa's harrowing tales.
However, when he told us he got struck by lightning twice, we scratched our heads. Lightning never strikes twice.
Or does it?
In the political world of multicultural political correctness, lightning strikes constantly. Normally, the lightning strikes manifest in the form of somebody being offended and suing over it, or reverse discrimination where a member of a minority group is angry because a particular quota, even one made up by the complainer, was not met.
Sometimes, a simple firing of an employee can spark off a lightning induced forest fire.
Lightning struck twice recently. Once in Southern California, and again in Minnesota. Both times the thunder clap revealed racial tensions in the form of the lack of hiring, or the termination, of particular members of particular ethnicities.
How dare them racists out there act so racist in America: the nation of leftist induced multicultural political correctness lightning strikes!
In Southern California the commotion is over the idiotic high-speed rail project. It seems, according to the accusers (Oakland-based nonprofit called Associated Professionals and Contractors, which includes minority-owned and small businesses, trade groups and individuals from around the state), that out of the many contracts being handed out, not enough of them are going out to businesses owned by minorities.
Qualifications be damned! I suppose these folks don't believe in giving out contracts to the most qualified.
This latest hurdle in an already ill-conceived high-speed rail project demands that the federal government pull $3 billion from the initiative, as a result of the failure to comply with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
The complaint specifically alleges that the California High-Speed Rail Authority "utterly failed" to attract a diverse group of businesses while handing out more than $500 million in contracts. The article I read about this case in indicates that the complaint is "not accusing the rail authority of deliberate discrimination."
Uh, then what else would you call it?
Anyhow, the plaintiffs claim the planners of the high-speed rail project that is supposed to connect Anaheim with San Francisco put no effort into advertising and encouraging companies owned by minorities to apply and bid on the contracts.
Meanwhile, in Minnesota, an immigration rights group is protesting what it calls “mass firings” of Latino Chipotle restaurant workers.
Apparently, Chipotle let go of a bunch of people because it turned out that the employees were possibly illegal aliens.
Holy Cow! How dare an employer fire employees for lying about their right to work in the U.S., and being law breakers!
Sorry, that was sarcasm for those that don't recognize such.
Anyhow, the Minnesota Immigration Rights Action Committeee (MIRAC), says that they have confirmed that more than a dozen workers at a Chipotle restaurant in St. Paul were let go of. This, combined with nearly a dozen more at a Richfield Chipotle, makes them Chipotle people a bunch of [insert insult here].
How insane must we be to even consider these people's arguments? In California, the truth is, it must be "may the best contractor get the contract, regardless of race!" Isn't that what Martin Luther King Jr. wanted? If the contractors are hired because they are minorities, that goes against King's words, who specifically said, "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."
Uh, isn't hiring minorities for the sake of them being minorities judging them by the color of their skin?
As for the Minnesota Chipotle story, since when should a business be penalized for following the law? They fired persons they believed to be illegal aliens (uh, that work "illegal" is there for a reason). Illegal aliens cannot legally work in the United States. Therefore, the restaurant was following the law by firing them once they discovered the workers were working illegally. Yet, this minority protection group is attacking Chipotle, saying they should be punished for following the law.
Talk about right becoming wrong, and wrong becoming right!
Is it too much to ask for people to quit with the multicultural garbage, and the political correctness, and use a little common sense?
Or would that be just a little too much lightning for one sitting?
Of course these same people don't notice when a Border Patrol agent is killed by illegal aliens. . . and while trying to nab people who victimize illegals, no less!
-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
Minority groups demand feds pull California high-speed rail funds - Mercury News
Uproar Over ‘Mass Firings’ At Minn. Chipotle Restaurant - CBS Minnesota
Border Patrol agent murdered in Arizona - Examiner
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