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February 4, 2008
California Regulates the Ethnicity of Philanthropies
Posted by Dave Blount at February 4, 2008 8:12 PM
The categorization of everyone and everything according to politically correct special interest groups has taken another step toward totalitarianism in the Land of Fruits and Nuts, where the California Assembly has passed a bill requiring foundations to disclose the race, gender and sexual orientation of trustees, staff and even grantees.
According to the Berkeley-based Greenlining Institute, racial minorities are not sufficiently represented in state policy debates. Therefore the ethnicity of think tanks and charities must be regulated by the State. Per Greenlining, both board and staff must be more than 50% "minority" to qualify for privileged status — and no, heterosexual white guys who don't have their heads screwed on backwards don't count as a minority, even in California, where they ought to be placed on the Endangered Species list.
The Wall Street Journal comments:
This certainly takes the spoils system of racial preferences to a whole new level. Heretofore the government has tried to enforce a pigmentation principle in government jobs and contracts, and in private employment through the threat of lawsuits. But this is about telling private citizens how to give their own money away.
Once this gets through the California Senate and the moonbat Governator inevitably signs it, Greenlining will move on to Washington, where it is already lobbying Charlie Rangel for Congressional hearings. A racist demagogue like Rangel is sure to love the idea that foundations and charities should be forced to apportion donations according to skin color.
It won't be long before you'll have to provide your demographic data to buy a can of Coke from a soda machine. If you're a second-class citizen — i.e., not black or homosexual — the machine will make you pay extra.
On a tip from teqjack.
