By Andrew Ripemoff
Today we’re going to talk about Amendment 46, the Colorado Civil Rights Initiative, which - if passed - would require the state of Colorado to close down all battered women’s shelters. At least, that’s the story I heard from one of the Anti-46 (thus pro-Initiative 82) petition gatherers.
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And why shouldn’t I believe her? She seems credible enough. An FTS reporter recorded her eloquently explaining all the various nuisances of Amendment 46. And if I understand her correctly, if Amendment 46 passes, it will mean that a black guy from California will make it illegal for minorities to get construction jobs. Plus Joe Nacchio will be free and women will get battered.
Follow me?
No?
Well there’s a chance she could have been exaggerating, but her intentions are good and that’s what counts. The fact is Amendment 46 is about eliminating racial discrimination and preferences in public hiring, public contracting, and public education. That, my friends, is dangerous.
Sure. I’m in favor of a colorblind society, where people are judged by their abilities rather than their race or sex, but we’re not there yet and we’ll probably never be. Yes, I realize that the most popular TV star is Oprah. I know that the biggest movie star is Will Smith. I know all about how the U.S. Secretary of State is black, as are hundreds of thousands of successful business owners, civic leaders, popular musicians, athletes, the front-runner to be the next President of the Untied States, blah, blah, blah. But the fact of the matter is, America is very racist. Minorities and women simply cannot make it in this society without government’s help.
So forget about all that Martin Luther King Jr. talk about a "colorblind" society. We NEED quotas and racial preferences. Need further proof? Read on.
Here at FTS, we’ve uncovered a big Colorado business that does not seem to embrace diversity. Our investigation seemingly points to a reluctance on the business's part to put people of certain colors into prominent positions. Hence the need for racial quotas.
In fact, an FTS reporter secretly acquired a list of employees of this exclusive business. The list of last names reads like a who’s who of Country Club elitism:
Green
Hunter
Jones
Martin
Smith
It sounds like the list of partners in a snooty upper-crust law firm. But where are the Hispanic surnames? Asian surnames?
That’s not all. As far as we can tell, none of the prominent employees are gay or lesbian. In their 30-plus years in Denver, we’re not sure this company has ever hired one. There is, however, at least one employee from overseas. He’s not from Africa of course, he’s from Europe. Big surprise.
They talk about "diversity" on the company’s web page, but a simple glance at the employee photos posted on their site reveals that out of the 14 most prominent employees, (all of whom make over $1 million a year), 12 of them have the same color. You can guess which color THAT is. 12 out 14. Some diversity huh?
This big business may say that it hires people based on their qualifications, yet the monotone racial makeup of their wealthy circle clearly raises some eyebrows. And when it comes to equality in the workplace, it seems clear that racial preferences are needed to level the playing field at this big corporation.
I’m talking about the Denver Nuggets.
With a Colorado population that is more than 70 percent white, it’s beyond obvious that members of the Caucasian community are extremely underrepresented in the Nugget’s lineup, which leads us back to Amendment 46.
Polls indicate that Amendment 46 is very popular. Yet if it fails, we need to be prepared. We’ll need to ensure that all businesses in Colorado hire employees not based on qualifications, by rather by complicated mathmatical gender/racial /sexual orientation formulas.
And we can do this by bringing media attention to the cause.
We’ll start by demanding that big businesses represent the makeup of the community. We can, for example, pressure the Nuggets to be more racially inclusive. We can get civil rights groups to protest outside the Pepsi Center. We can get the Rainbow/PUSH coalition to organize Nuggets boycotts. We can get Jesse Jackson to threaten to harm people’s genitals. And we will succeed.
We’ll make the Nuggets release Carmelo Anthony and Allen Iverson - to be replaced with more Hispanics, and Asians, and Caucasians. And with quotas and racial preferences in place, we can make the Nuggets lineup more representative of the true diversity of our beautiful state.
"But wait!" I hear you saying, "Then the Nuggets will be horrible." Yes. You may be right. But there is a higher principle to consider.
Who cares if the Boston Celtics come into town and kill the Nuggets by a score of 234 - 18? We’re not here to judge people by their performance; only by their skin color. And we’ll set an example to others.
We’ll tell the world: When you come to Colorado, it doesn’t matter how hard you work or how smart you are, or your level of dedication. None of that matters.
It’s what’s on the outside that counts.