Hyphenated-Diversity

The Governor's rejection of Zulima Farber as a Supreme Court nominee on the basis of her ethnicity presents a certain macabre irony: apparently, she fervently supports the Groupthink policies which cost her the job.

Some background.   Governor Whitman appointed James Coleman to the Supreme Court in 1994.   He was the first Black to serve on that Court.   His record has been no more undistinguished than that of any of his colleagues on the worst State Supreme Court in America.   Having reached the mandatory retirement age of 70, he must now step aside.

As usual, the "diversity" Nazis have emerged from the gutter of racial politics to demand that his replacement be a "person of color".  But, this time, the two main "of color" groups got to afightin'.  Hispanics demanded the nomination for one of their own.  Blacks insisted that the seat was a "Black" seat, and that only a Black should be considered to fill the slot.

The Guv came up with a solution which must have made his PC heart go all aflutter.  A Black, Hispanic, woman: a THREEFER!!  If only she were a lesbian, he could have touched all the bases at once.

But a funny thing happened on the way to the nomination.  "African" American leaders – who believe that being of African ancestry is more important than being American – looked at this Black woman and decided that she was Hispanic first, Black second, and that such was not Good Enough.  The Guv, courageous guy that he is, contended that one unpaid speeding ticket sufficed to disqualify Ms. Farber from the nomination.  Absolutely no one believes that excuse.  It's clear, beyond doubt, that only a Black – or, rather, a person sufficiently "Black" to satisfy a two or three Black Senators – would be considered.

(Harken back to the first few weeks of the Clinton proto-Administration, during which time it became clear that ONLY a person with the right reproductive organs would even be considered for Attorney General.  No matter the qualifications, no male need apply.  Clinton stood prepared to consider every last female lawyer in America, if necessary.  And damn near did.)

Now, McGreevey is clearly doing precisely the same thing.  Only Blacks need apply.

The irony arises from the fact that Ms. Farber is an officer of the Hispanic National Bar Association, an organization which expressly favors precisely this sort of Groupthink ethnicity-based appointment.  Her political mentors, people like Speaker Albio Sires and Congressman Robert Menendez, both consider it perfectly proper – indeed, necessary – for the Governor to consider race and ethnicity in his judicial appointments.

One takes some grim satisfaction in the turf wars between the "diversity" Nazis.  African American race baiters – such as Senator Shirley Turner – contend that it would be a "slap in the face" to Blacks if someone like Farber, who is, apparently, not "Black enough", were appointed. Hispanic leaders, who support precisely the same policies (witness Miguel Estrada), scream bloody murder, but are hoist upon their own petard.

These sorts of Balkan wars are inevitable so long as liberals indulge in "multicultural" group think, pitting ethnic groups against one another.   Turner, Menendez, Sires, and the rest of the "diversity" Mafia see no deeper that one's complexion.  They emphasize the irrelevant: where one's ancestors hailed from.  Do we really want the state handing out goodies based upon ancestry?   Inevitably, then, the question becomes one of ethnic purity; how "black" is "Black enough"? Who is "really" Hispanic?

Farber and Homer Plessy now share something in common: they suffered because of ethnicity.  Perhaps, now, when her own ideological soulmates, have reviewed her bloodline and found it insufficiently pure, she will finally come to understand just how profoundly evil and un-American such considerations are. 

This applies with special force to the judiciary.  The law knows no ethnicity, sees no color.  Judges should be chosen absolutely without regard to their race, ethnicity, or sex.  It makes precisely zero difference whether a Court is lily white or ebony black, whether the Justice's names all end in vowels or begin with them.  The law does not change based upon the ancestry of the jurist passing upon its merits, and the judge's life experience is worth exactly nothing in the courtroom.

Indeed, if it were established that people of one racial or ethnic group judge differently than people from another, it might be time to reconsider the judicial system, or whether members of those groups inclined to draw upon their life experiences when judging are truly capable of serving.  The whole point of being a judge is to leave all those biases behind.  Anyone who cannot check her ideology (or ethnicity) at the courthouse door has no business wearing the robe.

Conservatives suppress a joyless chuckle at the spectacle of ethnic wars being waged among members of "minority" groups.  We told you so.  Perfectly qualified people disqualified from office solely because their parents came from the wrong part of the globe?  Is not that what our parents came here to escape?

Perhaps this episode opened a few eyes, but probably not.  Instead, the Hispanic members of the "diversity" brigades will simply insist that the next seat "belongs" to them.  And the Guv, courageous man that he is, will almost certainly kowtow to the pressure.  And the Asians are waiting next in line.

This incident demonstrates, yet again, that listening to the "diversity" Nazis creates living, breathing, identifiable victims whose only crime is having the "wrong" parents; qualified people denied opportunity based upon race or ethnicity.  That's un-American and wrong.  Long past is the time for refusing to take ANY account of race, ethnicity, or sex.  Would that the people would rise up in righteous anger and evict from office anyone who emphasizes the word before the hyphen rather than that which follows.