Live from Music Row, Monday morning on The Tennessee Star Report with Michael Patrick Leahy – broadcast on Nashville’s Talk Radio 98.3 and 1510 WLAC weekdays from 5:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. – host Leahy welcomed the original all-star panelist Crom Carmichael to the studio for another edition of Crom’s Crommentary.
CROM CARMICHAEL:
Michael, this commentary invites additional discussion among all three of us but this was an article in The Wall Street Journal recently. I can’t find the date on this, but the title of it is “A More Diverse America Turns Against Racial Preferences.” And I started thinking about Milton Friedman making a comment one time and it was actually more than just a single comment.
He wrote on this that once a special interest group gets to be too big to be able to essentially tax the non-members of the special interest group to reward themselves, then the ability of the special interest group politically becomes incredibly diluted.
And so this is a story about California, which is arguably the most diverse state in the country and the voters backed a ban on racial preferences by a 9 percent margin. In 2020, they backed a ban on racial preferences by 16 percent. So it even got bigger.
Think about California. California has a very large Asian population. It has a very large Hispanic population. It has a large black population. And 50 percent of the population are women. Well, if you add up all of those groups it probably represents about 75 percent of the population of California.
And so the question is, how do 75 percent all get preferences? And so they’re all looking at each other saying, wait a minute. I individually want to achieve. I individually don’t want my hard work to be used to give preferences to somebody else.
And so when you have 75 percent of the population essentially in the category of getting preferences, at least the way the media and the Democrat Party look at it, they lose their effectiveness politically. That’s what you’re seeing.
I think in this election you see a very, very large number of Hispanics running as Republican candidates. You have a growing number of black people running as candidates in the Republican Party and they’re winning in the primaries.
And so they are now in the general election and Democrats are having a hissy fit trying to figure out how do I attack a black person as a racist? It’s very difficult to do, but Democrats nonetheless are still trying to do that, and I think it will fail colossally this November.
And I think in this particular case, California is, for the Democrats, is the canary in the coal mine. Except the Democrats want to pack themselves into the coal mine as the canary is dying.
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