But the important point is that Powell and Rice aren't racial hucksters, exploiting their race by invoking some victim status. As for the parade of black preachers, Hispanic businessmen, hermaphroditic kleptomaniacs, and the rest, there has been a little diversity overkill. But one wonders what the media will say at the upcoming Democratic convention. There, the cameras will reveal a rich ethnic cocktail churning from one end of the Staples Convention Center to the other. These black and Asian and gay and female and Hispanic faces will be there because the Democratic Party imposes the most rigid quota system in American life.
Strict rules requires that half of every delegation be female.
There are hard quotas for blacks and Hispanics. Sure there would be more blacks and women than at the Republican convention, but not nearly what the propagandists in the Democratic Party would have the country believe. Indeed, these sorts of quota games stem from the so-called McGovern rules of 1972. It was those rules which prompted McGovern to say that he opened the doors to the Democratic Party and two million people walked right out. Send it along.