Dirty Diversity: * Minority Appointees (used) as tools of . . . power

[TaleWgnDg]

"Dirty Diversity: Bush Minority Appointees as Tools of Force, Power and Expediency

"JURIST Contibuting Editor Ali Khan of Washburn University School of Law says that the Bush administration's appointment of minority candidates to high-profile positions has made them the complicit and even enthisiastic instruments of political and legal policies as harmful as any espoused by white males.
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"The Bush administration is making history in recruiting so many minorities to perform high-profile jobs. Colin Powell was the first black man to head the State Department, Condoleezza Rice was the first black woman to be the National Security Advisor, and appears set to be first black women Secretary of State, succeeding Powell. White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales, if confirmed by the Senate, would be the first Hispanic to be named United States Attorney General.

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"Thus a new chapter is being written in American history, the theme of which is 'dirty diversity.' Non-white faces have been hired for big-ticket jobs so that a black woman vouches for an unjust war, a black man defends it, one Hispanic justifies the use of torture while another supervises the slaughter of foreign civilians, and a Vietnamese refugee writes the law to maim American civil liberties. The jobs for these minorities are better than they used to be, but the tasks are no cleaner.

"Ali Khan is a professor of law at Washburn University School of Law in Topeka, Kansas. His book, A Theory of International Terrorism, will be published in 2005 by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. Please send your comments to [e-mail]"

http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/forumy/2004/11/dirty-diversity-bush-minority.php




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[Paleocon]

1. .

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[TaleWgnDg]

2. Lousy attempt at "bait and switch" . . . no takers, here . . . n/t

[VioletLake]

3. They claim that terrorists use our freedom against us.

They should know; after all, they have no peer when it comes to using the U.S.A. against itself.

[TaleWgnDg]

4. Yup. Pretty damn sad when minorities use their office against

themselves and others too. Damn sad.

[VioletLake]

5. I reserve my deepest "sadness" for the puppeteers. n/t