On the humbug, I decided to take it back to the first banner I ever had for a blog. A throwback, as it were. Anyway…
This is late, but at racialicious.com, there’s a link to an article at diversityinc that poses the intriguing question, Who’s Ward Connerly Rooting For In The Super Bowl? Given Connerly’s stance on Affirmative Action, it’s not hard to imagine that he would despise the Rooney Rule, which Lovie Smith himself sees as crucial to his being interviewed and eventually hired by the Chicago Bears.
What’s interesting to me in all of this is that people in the press have started to talk about the Dungy coaching tree. I know part of it is because he actually coached (and won) a Super Bowl, but lest we forget, if there is a Dungy tree, its roots start with Dennis Green, who hired Dungy as the defensive coordinator in Minnesota. Dennis Green got his chance in Minnesota after having a significant run of success at Stanford, where he was hired by a selection committee headed by Condoleeza Rice.
So yeah. If we, when in positions of power, would handle our B-I, then maybe AA would be unnecessary. But then again, my premise is that Affirmative Action is not about the superior, it’s about the average. It’s not just about getting one chance to succeed, it’s also about having multiple chances to fail. Remember, an equal sign has both a high bar and a low bar.
Spurred on by Shay at Booker, I’ve started to do some research on my genealogy. I’ve made some decent progress, getting back to the 1850’s, although there’s much more research left to do. Sooner than later, I’m gonna take a road trip to see if I can unearth some more information. The big thing is figuring out what questions I need to ask to get the answers I want.
Plus, that will probably be just the excuse I need to go down South and rent a souped-up Charger for a few days. I’ma see what the Hemi is really all about.
Chris Rock used to joke about making bullets prohibitively expensive as a means of gun control without keeping anybody from owning a gun. Well, the first steps may be pending in Cook County, Illinois. There’s bound to be plenty of wrangling, but it’s definitely an interesting proposition. Granted, at this point, it’s just a 10 cent per-bullet tax, and it’s being proposed as a means for the county to increase revenue, but I can easily see it heading in the gun control direction.
Ever wondered what happens to the championship shirts they print up for the losing team? Well, in Zimbabwe, they’re wearing shirts celebrating the Bears’ win in the Super Bowl.
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