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3/1/2013 11:19:21 PM

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Jesse Jackson Promotes Race over Ability

By: Robert Tracinski

MARINA DEL REY, CA -- As Jesse Jackson makes news with his calls for the end of ethnic hatred in the Balkans, little attention is being paid to his own efforts to create racial conflict at home, said a senior writer for the Ayn Rand Institute.

"Jackson has been urging America to enter what he calls the 'next frontier of the civil rights movement' -- a 'right to capital,'" said Robert Tracinski. "He has targeted Wall Street and Silicon Valley, claiming that investors aren't putting 'enough' blacks on their board of directors, and that technology firms aren't hiring 'enough' black engineers and computer programmers."

Tracinski noted that Jackson's criteria for hiring computer programmers and executives has nothing to do with the amount of education, experience or intelligence the person has. Instead, Jackson demands that they be hired simply because they are black.
Jackson has complained that blacks comprise only 4 percent of high technology jobs, while they constitute 8 percent of the population. According to the Department of Education, blacks make up only 5.3 percent of those who receive college degrees in engineering and computer science.

"Given these statistics, it would be more rational to attribute low numbers of black computer programmers to the abysmal failure of our public schools, which have failed to prepare inner-city children for college, than the 'racism' of Silicon Valley and Wall Street" said Tracinski.

He said that Jackson has provided no proof of racial discrimination in the computer and financial fields. Instead, Jackson has focused on "affirmative action" policies on which hiring and promotion are based, not on an individual's competence, but on racial quotas.

"It's bad enough to put race above merit when it comes to employing people to pull levers on assembly lines," said Tracinski. "But can one imagine hiring on the basis of quotas when the job is to direct a billion-dollar conglomerate? Jackson's demands constitute, not a fight for civil rights, but an assault on human ability."

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