Cortland Klein

A few days ago, I saw a flier at my school that said, “Black Student Body Dance … All People Welcome”. What would happen if I went to such an event? First, I thought it was morally wrong to classify racially. But isn’t this exactly what we’re doing?

According to Google, racially means, “with respect to race”. Why is this important?

We first must look at the current mentality that many claim. We aren’t racist; in fact, we are repsectful of other races. Thus, we must provide each racial group equal oppertunity, and this is more important than anything else. For a recruiter, this means that racial representation is more important than the qualities of the applicant. That’s just fucking stupid, in my not-so-humble opinion.

Generally, we are always trying to think of the group, may it be racial, ethnical, religious, regional, politicial, cultural, or capital. In all cases, we put more representation into the group than the individuals that make up the group.

Sound familiar? This is not unlike the cultural mentalities found in the country of Japan and other eastern countries. The notion that the group is more important than the individual. I disagree.

Democracy means that the power of government is in the people. This doesn’t seem to be the case in the United States of America today. If I vote for the canidate of the LP and that’s not the winning vote in my state, my vote becomes worthless; my entire state represents the winning vote to the national level. Thus, we’re brought down to two similar parties, the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. Look carefully enough, and the difference is little. There’s no issues for this year’s presidential campaign, just a bunch of old guys arguing about what happened in ‘Nam. Who gives a fuck about how severe your damn bullet/sharpnel wound was, or how many awards you got for it; ’cause I as sure hell don’t.

Am I left or right? You know what, I’m neither. I’m northern. I’m a Libertarian.