Selective Diversity

In middle school, a couple of my teachers nominated me to be a part of a “diversity committee.” There were 20 or 30 of us selected, and they sent us to a day-long training seminar where we talked about hate crimes and activism, and at the end our motivational speaker-like leader gave us all “thimbles full of strength and self-confidence” so that we could go out into the world and spread the message of love we’d learned. I spent the following year conducting copycat seminars for the student body wherein I showed a graphic documentary about Matthew Shepherd, James Byrd, and other victims of heinous acts, and I mediated discussions between my peers about why hate was so dangerous.

In retrospect, this board was another public school attempt to liberalize me and leave my mind so open that my brain would fall out. Don’t get me wrong, hate crimes are absolutely terrible. There is no justification for race-based or heterosexist attacks, and I think the diversity committee was essentially a force for good in my middle school. However, were I to revamp the curriculum, I would have avoided demonizing all Christians and all white people as our training did. I would have addressed the idea that not all crimes that happen to be against minorities are, in fact, hate crimes. I would have driven home the point that part of tolerance is learning to tolerate the intolerant. As it turns out, the ideas we were trained to regurgitate as members of the diversity committee were not all that diverse.

There’s a new diversity committee at the FCC. It’s another one of Obama’s brainchildren, and it’s called the Advisory Committee on Diversity for Communications in the Digital Age. Its proclaimed intentions are to help women and minorities purchase a bigger share of radio and television stations by changing certain tax codes in their favor. But, seeing as the 31-member board doesn’t include a single Republican or moderate vote, we conservatives are skeptical.

It seems to me that rumors over the Fairness Doctrine coming back have already caused a stir, so Obama assembled this committee to achieve his agenda under the radar. This board will have the power to abuse the tax code so that many of the successful conservative talk radio hosts who currently own stations will lose them, and the only people who’d be allowed to buy them up would be liberals because, obviously, all women and all minorities are Democrats. In fact, all these posts you’ve been reading aren’t by Kelly Cole, they’re by a rich, 65-year old white guy from Texas. It makes perfect sense that conservatives wouldn’t be invited to the diversity committee because we hate diversity so much.

Actually, I think the membership roster of Obama’s committee shows which party is really more supportive of diversity. Hypocritical actions speak louder than guilt-ridden, sugar-coated words, Democrats.

So what is this board out to do? Really? They want to completely silence the conservative voice by ripping away the last form of media over which we have power, one that is already small and archaic. The Left wants no resistance, no opposition. The whole thing has a ring of totalitarianism, no?

When the Fairness Doctrine was our main censorship hurdle, there was some comfort in knowing that it had to be voted into effect. This “diversity committee” is already up and running, no vote required. The scariest thing about all of this is the reminder that Obama, whenever someone opposed him, has and abuses the power to do whatever he wants without checks or balances of any kind, and we don’t even have the power of representative vote.

We are no longer a democracy or a republic. We are a controlled people, and no matter your race, gender, sexual orientation, age, socioeconomic group, or political party, that should scare everyone.

Now that’s a diversity committee I could get into.