i am annoyed that such an excellent book is so poor in its analysis of the Republican Party and its relations to the problems facing the US. Because of length, I shall limit myself to this topic.
Then, there is the question of Nixon. Coulter writes: "There was never a period...when race discrimination was a Republican policy, except maybe briefly when Nixon imposed affirmative-action on the building trades doing business with the government in the 1960s, but they deserved it. (A policy for which LBJ is showered with praise for thinking about - but never actually implementing.)" (173)
What LBJ thought about implementing was halted because it was the end of Lyndon's term in 1968 and Democrat Humphrey had lost the election to Republican Nixon. Everyone assumed that the "Philadelphia Plan" of quotas for construction unions was dead because of the election. The unexpected occurred when Nixon and his Sec. of Labor George Schultz revived and then implemented the Philadelphia Plan. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 had made quotas and hiring for racial balance illegal. Nixon and Schultz ignored this and demanded quotas by not calling them such; they were goals and timetables. When the issue came before Congress, it appeared as if Nixon would lose on the issue. He sent emissaries to the NAACP requesting its help. While many Democrats and some Republicans opposed, Nixon's quota program squeaked past on a narrow vote.
Nixon then issued executive orders making quota-based affirmative action government policy in all federal agencies - not just Philadelphia building trades. The notion of quota-justice had been rejected by most Americans. It was clearly contrary to the spirit and text of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. It was contrary to the dream bespoke by Martin Luther King at the 1963 March on Washington - when his children would be judged by the content of their character and not by the color of their skin. Yet, quotas first became national policy under Republican Richard Nixon.
Of course, Nixon could not transform America alone. The EEOC had been working toward quotas for several years. Many courts opposed this un-American, racist concept. But when the issue finally reached the US Supreme Court under the new Chief Justice Warren Burger, a Nixon appointee, the Civil Rights Act was turned on its head. Its clear language banning quotas and hiring for racial balance became requirement for racial balance and quotas by other names. As late as 2003 when affirmative action again reached the US Supreme Court in major cases, it was Republican Reagan appointee, Sandra Day O'Connor, who wrote the decision for the majority of the court upholding the use of race in effect to achieve quota-based affirmative action.
And even before Burger, we had the Warren Court! Earl Warren, California official most responsible for the round-up of Japanese during WWII (Republicans are always for civil rights??), Earl Warren, the man who would be VP when Gov. Dewey won the Presidency in 1948, Gov. Warren would have a career change with Dewey's defeat. President Eisenhower appointed him Chief Justice in 1953 and the Warren Court proceeded to follow many ideas on crime that Coulter decries. The alleged criminal would soon have more rights with the Warren Court's rulings. And later Warren gave his presence to the Warren Report on the murder of President Kennedy. I have written elsewhere criticizing various aspects of that report. (Indeed, the first book in which I was mentioned was vol. 26 of the findings, but the index was so poorly done, I had no idea of that until the mid-70s. Mark Lane may have been a Left-winger, but he provided access to information covered up by the government.)
Coulter rightly condemns the Kerner Report of 1969 on the riots of the late 1960s in America. It "decided that instead of punishing black rioters, we should hear them out and lavish black neighborhoods with...government programs."(256) She notes that part of the Kerner Report was written by New York City Mayor John Lindsay. Lindsay would not switch to the Democratic Party until 1971, so he was still nominally a Republican when he wrote those views. Lindsay was a liberal, and elected for his second term as mayor, not on the Republican ticket, but only on the Liberal line. Still, he was a Republican and a liberal.
In many ways Nixon was also a Republican and a liberal. EPA, OSHA, and other liberal legislation came under Nixon's watch. Most importantly for this paper, Nixon's racial quota policy was expanded to Hispanics, women, this group and that, and the quota commissars entered the personnel offices of every government agency and then every private corporation. No longer were people hired and promoted according to merit, it was by quota, for goals and time tables, or now, for diversity. No longer hire the best qualified, but the "basically" qualified, or even the unqualified to fill the quota and avoid heavy government imposed fines if the government finds lack of racial balance in the workplace. Individual merit no longer counts; count only by race and gender.
Under Republican President Reagan some urged him to rescind with his pen the executive orders requiring affirmative action. Reagan did not do so. Under Reagan when employment tests were administered, knowing Blacks and Hispanics could not perform as well as whites, but determined to have racial balance, Hispanics were granted an extra 10% on the exams; Black were granted even more. Employers were not informed about the cheating done by Reagan's government to insure hiring of lesser qualified Blacks and Hispanics.
Reagan never rescinded the affirmative action executive order. Neither did Bush I, who even signed the Civil Rights Act of 1991, providing the first legal justification for quotas. Affirmative action continued under Clinton and Bush II.
Interestingly, in the 2012 Presidential campaign President Obama often declared, "It is our policy to have all the people play by the same rules. That is just. That is fair." In reality, that is the last thing Obama wants. Obama supports the double standards of quotas and affirmative action. His Administration seeks to expand it, even suing school districts which suspend and expel a higher percentage of Black student than whites (though they never want to know if the Blacks are a higher percentage disrupting classes, cursing, fighting, etc.). The Left wants justice though quotas. Yet, in most cases, quotas are inherently unjust.
What was interesting in the campaign is that Republican Romney never called Obama out on this issue. What do you mean, we all play by the same rules when Blacks with lower scores than whites are admitted to university, granted scholarships, given jobs, promoted, etc.? Affirmative action is institutionalized to prevent us from playing by the same rules. It is cheating on behalf of pet groups. It is legalized institutional racism against whites. It became national policy under Republican Nixon and has continued under every Republican President since - and the Democrats too.
With the quota mentality, one has a warped view of justice. Why is the percentage of Blacks in jail so much higher than whites? They should be out. They should be given all the liberal welfare Coulter condemns. But this is the result of Republican like Warren, Burger, Nixon, Schultz, Reagan, Bush I, Bush II, Romney. Coulter's paragraph on Nixon and the building trades distorts the role of the GOP in institutionalizing anti-white racism, which then amplifies to justify anti-white crime.
Mugged is a good book, but Coulter's analysis of the GOP is warped.
For my full, lengthy review of this book, one must see it on my blog.
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