A Recipe for the Good Society
Williams, Waiter E.
Walter E. Williams A RECIPE FOR THE GOOD SOCIETY A report from the Federal Unequality Commission. What are the goals for America if it is to become the good society? For an answer, you need...
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...The only feasible solution to segregation is busing--some of which will be quite costly...
...Preliminary investigations have already raised a disturbing question or two...
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...Establishing racial proportionality in the cities, libraries, schools, and entertainment centers, it must be admitted, will be a costly and irksome business...
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...One preventive is to have a confiscatory tax on inheritance...
...He would simply be required to draw on his own resources to make a black poor man wealthy and thereby eliminate the need for that poor black man to marry the wealthy white woman...
...None has its correct proportion of blacks...
...The elimination of inheritance would put an end to such disparities...
...Such assortative (selective) behavior not only increases income, I.Q., and education differences among adults, it increases differences in the next generation as well...
...Since white people are richer than black people, there is great need for an Executive Order calling for matrimonial affirmative action...
...Indeed, even if the commission is successful in producing the good society, its scope will remain limitless...
...It's all so subjective and arbitrary...
...Any civil rights leader will tell you that black income is only 57 percent of white income...
...Take Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the 7-foot, 2-inch center for the Los Angeles Lakers basketball team...
...Some Americans earn hundreds of thousands of dollars a year while others earn a mere pittance, if anything at all...
...The nation's water fountains are only the tip of the segregation iceberg...
...Solution: Bus whites to Anacostia and blacks to the airport until there is proportional representation at both spots...
...In the case of Miami he won't have to wait long...
...One might of course ask why blacks should bear the burden of busing...
...it's society, the good society...
...Then look at opportunity...
...In a word or two, people tend to marry people just like themselves, but mostly of the opposite sex...
...This is a tall order, one which I am sure would try the patience, imagination, and creativity even of a man like God...
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...Certain subtle differences can play havoc with busing programs...
...The situation calls for extension of equal-pay-for-equal-work and equalpay-for-comparable-work laws into the entertainment industries...
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...Respondents would be evaluated on the basis of income, education, I.Q., and racial status...
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...people marry people with high I.Q.'s...
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...What should the responsibility of the Federal Unequality Commision be in this regard...
...She would have to post notices in conspicuous places, including the ghetto, announcing such an intent...
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...What is the social impact of all this...
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...We've all heard it said that there is equality in death...
...It leaves people more differentiated than if they formed their associations on a more random basis...
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...In discussions and debates on affirmative action and discrimination, I have often remarked that when seeking a wife, I failed to give every woman an equal opportunity...
...F o r all its numbing complexity, the question of racial proportional representation is a relatively minor aspect in the movement toward the good society...
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...He started out poor in New York just like I started out poor in Philadelphia...
...The fact is that black people are 70 percent of the D.C...
...Y e t , as we know, there are always some people who try to get more, who try harder than others, and so we risk reappearance of those invidious distinctions between people...
...According to most observers, the major barrier to the good society in America is posed by inequalities in income and opportunity...
...The fault, I contend, is not mine but society's...
...There are other unfair outcomes...
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...Inheritance is not simply a matter of money, and this introduces some real problems that strike me as insolvable...
...College-educated people tend to marry those who are also college-educated...
...We can think of many other cases of natural selection through marriage...
...Yet a random visit to the D.C...
...Clearly, at least at the first-approximation level of analysis, too many white people are marrying only white people and too many black people are marrying only black people...
...As a market-oriented commissioner of the Federal Unequality Commission, I would make a special provision for the wealthy white man who wants to marry a wealthy white woman badly enough...
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...blacks, who make up more than 10 percent of the nation, are grossly underrepresented in Iowa (1.4%), Montana (0.2%), and Idaho (0.3%), not to mention several other states...
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...Some groups, the Irish and Italians, say, might loathe the thought of being classified together simply as whites...
...So something else must be done...
...High-income people tend to marry other high-income people...
...Let's say that Washington organizes a draft of Italians to meet the racial needs of Utah...
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...To cite one example, lightning will systematically strike some people and not others--mostly those living in non-urban areas...
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...Although the Federal Unequality Commission will have its hands full implementing racial proportional representation, it will also be responsible for rooting out all sources of unequalhess...
...Another obstacle in the struggle to achieve racial balance is that you just can t call all white people white...
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...The same might be said about high-I.Q, and highly educated people marrying each other...
...Depending on which conscienceof-America representative you ask, the answer may vary slightly...
...What we'll need, then, is to set up some kind of government agency for racial classification, like the one in South Africa, except ours will have a full appeals process...
...airport would show you very few blacks drinking water out of the fountains...
...I've confessed to audiences around the world that I arbitrarily discriminated against Italian women, Irish women, Jewish women, Chinese women, fat women, ugly women, not to mention women who do not bathe frequently...
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...Perhaps the most overlooked source of unequal income and opport-unity is the institution of marriage...
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...Segregation, of course, is the hallmark of discrimination and injustice...
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...Supreme Court ruled thus in the famous Brown v. Board of Education in 1954: Separate is inherently unequal...
...Application of this program on an intra- and inter-racial basis for several generations will eliminate gross class and income differences from our society...
...These notices would remain posted for a period of no less than 120 days...
...Only the insensitive would suggest cutting part of Abdul-Jabbar's legs off (though many a sportscaster has claimed you could cut Jabbar in two and come up with a fine pair of guards) or hatcheting Mathis's voice box...
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...If by chance no vacancies become available nine whites could band together, hire a black, and move to Miami in a sort of package deal...
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...On top of that, older women experience pregnancies with a higher incidence of birth defects than do younger women...
...For example, dwarfs would shrink at the notion of marrying a tall person, and vice versa...
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...My first task is to present Congress with a new set of guidelines that will become the law of the land...
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...Low-income people marry low-income people...
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...This would require wealthy white people to marry poor black people until all poor black people are used up...
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...The commission's mandate is to lay out the ground rules for a good society, that society envisioned by the Washington Post editorialists...
...People who paid money to hear me sing would, upon completion of the concert, be given a music stamp...
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...And so, the life of the Federal Unequality Commission promises to be a long one...
...For an answer, you need only consult the Benjamin Hookses of the civil rights movement, the Jane Fondas of the New Left, or any socially sensitive journalist bringing us the six o'clock news, "Nightly News," or "Sixty Minutes...
...Let's start with the widely acknowledged income disparities between races...
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...Women have a much higher probability of pregnancy than men...
...If the fountains were fully desegregated, there would be far more blacks at the fountains at any one given time...
...Whatever minor inconveniences there may be will be a cheap price to pay for the good society...
...Now how can we tax such inheritances...
...Or Johnny Mathis, he's rich, I'm.not...
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...The Library of Congress is racially segregated...
...Just look at personal income statistics...
...Once true racial proportionality is established in all walks of American life, the job of maintenance will be relatively easy, what with recent advances in data management...
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...But generally, they will all tell you that the goal of America should be: equality of opportunity, no racial or sexual discrimination, equality of income, and social justice...
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...Most whites in Miami are elderly, and anyway the city has a high crime rate...
...That's true as far as it goes, but the commission is concerned that these people were led to live in rural areas by as yet undetermined discriminatory factors...
...Yes, strict racial proportionality is no easy goal, particularly if you bear in mind the greed that inheres in man...
...White Iowans may take the same attitude toward Detroit...
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...Besides, any test used to determine whether I'm a good or bad singer has not been validated by the federal government's Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC...
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...Let's pretend that I have been appointed commissioner of the Federal Unequality Commission whose acronym, by the way, would be outlawed even in cases of most urgent brevity...
...Black people may initially reject the idea of moving to one of the underrepresented states...
...There are countless other unfair outcomes in our society which this initial report of the Federal Unequality Commission hasn't the space to go into...
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...These and many other cases of racial segregation demand solutions--namely, integration at all deliberate speed...
...Unequal income and unequal opportunity in fact are rife...
...These could be enforced through a music stamp program (odd and even days wouldn't work): The government would issue music stamps to "xiisadvantaged" singers like me...
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...It's not the individual that counts...
...But the magnitude of our school problem must not cause us to ignore the rampant segregation in our nation's other institutions and public places...
...Such hankypanky by a white group would be intolerable...
...Because society discriminates...
...The answer is simple: If we were to bus whites from Montana, Iowa, and Idaho to the cities we'd depopulate those states...
...Kids growing up in an environment where the father says, " I anticipate that your polymorphonuclearneutrophils will eliminate the antibody," will have an edge on the kid whose father says, "You'll get b e t t e r . " The bottom line is that assortative behavior is the transmitter of the unequality disease...
...Thus blacks with high income, education, and I.Q...
...I can hear people, particularly right-wing conservatives, saying, "Here we go again, somebody blaming society for his own shortcomings...
...Or he may have to wait until a Miami white dies...
...Therefore, in cities like Detroit, Philadelphia, and the nation's capital, where they are overrepresented, blacks must be willing to be bused to states like Montana, Iowa, and Idaho, where they are underrepresented...
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...Since integration efforts have failed in the past, I suspect that marriage integration will require something stronger than voluntary compliance...
...Though I consider the latter statement a personal insult--it implies that since I didn't hurt some woman by getting married I must be the kind of man no other woman would want--I'll try not to stray from the topic...
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...Unequality often comes from being born into family A instead of family B. Family A is penniless, but family B gives its children resources that enable them to earn high incomes throughout their lives...
...This combination of sexism and ageism is also of great concern to the commission...
...Go to any ice hockey game, you will notice racially segregated audiences...
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...Go to Iowa, Montana, or Idaho...
...By the same token, blacks are overdrinking at water fountains in Anacostia...
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...They are all overlooking one cardinal fact: When it comes to making the good society, what people would selfishly do with their lives is but a tertiary matter...
...et me just focus on how marriage decisions foster and aggravate differences in income and opportunity...
...For instance, a white planning to relocate in Miami may be required to delay his move until a white moves out...
...Then if they wanted to hear Johnny Mathis sing they'd be required to pay not just the admission price, but a stamp or two...
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...If wealthy people marry other wealthy people, and poor people marry other poor people, what do you get...
...to unchecked segregation--all the litigation regarding access to public accommodations notwithstanding--is any water fountain at Washington National Airport...
...City State Zip In Canada: Mail To U.S Address THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR JULY 1982 21 tion in marriage is unlike other forms of discrimination in that it doesn't hurt anyone...
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...They may even disavow that state's standing as a bona fide member of the union...
...The answer is obvious...
...Some white people are of German ancestry while others are Irish, Jewish, Italian, Greek, Armenian, French, even Polish, and to make matters worse THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR JULY 1982 I0 there is a large group of whites that falls under the damned-if-I (or they)can-tell category...
...While many blacks work in the Library of Congress, very few--surely not 70 percent--of the readers and researchers are black...
...The Commission must first pinpoint the major causes of unequal incomes and opportunity...
...Johnny Mathis inherited genes that made for a melodious voice box...
...But in the good society, the following rule applies: Whenever there is a conflict between cost and benefit, the benefit must always be the guiding principle...
...The story of history, and the men who made it, makes for reading that is both lively and valuable...
...But there's a hitch...
...Since we are all equal, this being one of those self-evident truths embodied in the United States Declaration of Independence, all causes of unequal outcomes will be traceable to our environment...
...You get a society with dramatic class distinctions: a wealthy class and a poor class...
...How do you tell whether a school is segregated...
...An executive's son has greater opportunity to be successful than a janitor's son...
...schools are segregated, in fact more segregated today than twenty years ago...
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...Corrective policy emerges when you seriously and searchingly ask: Why do people like Ali, AbdulJabbar, and Mathis earn more money than, say, Walter Williams...
...These people, you see, inherited things I didn't...
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