If It's Good for You, It's Probably Good for Me - So Don't Make Race a Double Standard CriteriaPosted on 05/23/2010
A standard is a set of criteria that an object being judged must meet to be considered good, neutral, or poor along a basic continuum of ranking.
The determination of value must be acknowledged by an overwhelming majority of people seeking the same quality in the object. The continuum on the ranking scale maybe further divided into smaller increments to define finer distinctions that include adjectival labels such as "excellent," "God awful," etc., yet the location of the object on the scale varies little.
The standard is applied impartially to a multitude of very similar objects to distinguish them to be superior to the others, or poorer in quality compared to the others, to aid in a decision to abide by the best and recognize the worst, or to purchase the best and leave the worst to collect dust on a vendor's shelf.
A double standard is one in which a higher value is placed on generally insignificant criteria for judging an object's value. The intent is to prioritize an insignificant criteria--those that have little recognized impact on the value of the object, such as race, height, gender, or taste in music when judging intelligence and ability and performance, for instance--when making a judgment about an object's quality. Double standards are invalid because the conclusions reached when pairing the insignificant criteria with the outcome to be evaluated, though the value of the criteria has been artificially ascended along the ranking scale, are invalid. All similar objects must be judged by the same standard.
For example, some black rappers claim that their race exempts them from social condemnation when they call black women HOs, while disallowing white men from making the same declaration about black women. The insignificant factor is race, all other conditions being the same.
Race is often cited as being the more important criteria for evaluating objects is in educational performance or commission of crimes, the hope being that one's race somehow mitigates the poor value returned. Race, by itself, has no bearing on performance, though how members of different races are treated because of their race does impact psychology, and learning that you are subjected to disapproval must be overcome, regardless of others' reasons for disapproving.
Posted on 05/16/2010
An Appeal to Repeal Hate Crimes Legislation
- On July 7, 2005, a 19-year old male was sentenced to eight months for spray painting KKK on the home and car of a black family in Fincastle, Virginia, a destruction of property felony hate crime based on race.
- A boy in a street gang is tragically gunned down in a struggle for inner city dominance and territory. His parents don’t grieve less when they learn that a member of their own race rather than another shattered their family.
- A gay man is intentionally infected with the AIDS virus by a vengeful male lover. The victim’s relatives and friends watch him waste away and vow to see justice done for the carrier of the killer virus.
- Several obese women are attacked by a skinny man who slams their ankles with a lead plumbing pipe and laughs as they struggle to stand. He’s convicted of multiple counts of simple assault and receives the standard prison sentencing.
The full weight of the law doesn’t apply to the victims in the last three crimes because either the tormentors or the victims don’t fit the discriminatory hate crimes provisions set forth in the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 or in new amendments before congress. To be eligible for enhanced sentencing that is generally added to existing statutes for criminal conduct motivated by hate or discrimination, convicted defendants must have intentionally selected a victim based on “the actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, ethnicity, gender, disability, or sexual orientation of any person." This hate crimes statute and others like it at the local and state levels benefit only members of particular victim groups, if the premise is incorrectly accepted that enhanced sentencing is a benefit. The goal is to correct presumed inequality of legal recourse for these groups by legalizing unequal treatment for everyone else.
"Groups by Black but Not by White"
Within the black community, the concept of black racial superiority goes by the name black, or racial, pride and esteem. A double standard exists, and whites are labeled racist if they announce their white racial pride.
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