Perhaps wrongly, I found the premise morally problematic for the assembly that state Sen. Curren D. Price Jr. (D-Culver City) convened last Friday afternoon at the California Science Center:
“California High Speed Rail Project and Contracting Disparities and Opportunities.”
Digest the message slowly.
If you tried this lopsided configuration in Las Vegas, they would skip the inquiry and shoot you straightaway.
Billed as an outing for “women and minorities,” the phrase would have been comical except that the organizers were dead-spot serious.
I guess this means that white guys are the face of evil in our country. They were the only group overlooked — pointedly.
The longer I sat there Friday afternoon, the more uncomfortable I became.
These presumably well-intentioned fixers propose, boldly, unashamedly, to rig all high speed rail contracts if the very vague project ever reaches us.
Worse, everybody in the large room, cunningly, was in on the fix.
Didn’t your mother ever teach you it is wrong to cheat?
Affirmative action, gentlemen, is as disgusting as racism or “sexism” — what’s the difference whether you are being unbudgingly prejudiced from the inside or the outside?
Zero.
This shameless racism and sexism stunt should be slapped down hard and promptly.
Three people on my side, three people on your side, and may the better threesome prevail. That is the way real life is played, gentlemen.
By regularly invoking “small businesses,” the undeniable intention of the organizers was to give themselves moral cover for their ill-advised venture into (hopefully) Never-Never Land.
Better that it should have been headlined as “Festival for Victocrats (as Larry Elder would say) and all other second-place people who tearfully invest their days in really feeling sorry for themselves.
Aim high, guys, not low.
I shall condense the quivering motivation for the afternoon into one concise sentence: “There’s a pot of gold swinging our way, boys (and girls), and we are here to be certain you get your cut.”
Sounds to me like bank robbers divvying up the loot.
Eh, what? This is America, fellows. May I introduce you to the market place and the concept of the free market?
