Discussion on Race and Meritocracy

In no era in my lifetime

have more strides been made towards the American ideal of being judged

by merit rather than immutable characteristics.

It's a simple ideal,

but rare, and one no less worth fighting for now that discrimination is

against whites and being laundered under the gauzy terms of diversity, equity,

and inclusion than it was during the first wave of the Civil Rights Movement,

when racial discrimination was implemented against blacks.

As Chief Justice Roberts memorably put it, back in 2007,

the way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop

discriminating on the basis of race.

There is no diversity

exception to this just colorblind principle of our law.

No matter our race, Americans should expect to be judged fairly and on the merits,

not on the basis of skin color, religion, or sex.

We can either have civil rights and just treatment for every American,

or we can have a legalized racial hierarchy system and

balkanized resentful politics that puts us at each other's throats.