On Friday, Charlie Sykes read an email from some white dude who was disappointed he was not going to be considered as a candidate for the board of MATC for not being of the right race or gender (per his telling). Official racism, Charlie fulminated. Predictably, callers were outraged over this alleged reverse racism, reported rising blood pressure and fretted that Barack Obama would only do more to make the US a black man's paradise. Charlie also allows one of his commenters, Mad As Hell, to insult Ann Wilson.
Thing is, if Charlie had taken a second to use google, he would have found that five of the nine directors are honkeys, three of them are male honkeys, and the last three appointees all were honkeys.
Taste the oppression!
Charlie -- not to mention his emailer -- also could have pointed out that MATC has policies in place laying out gender/racial makeup of the board. Charlie may denounce this as "official racism." The Brawler would suggest it's a wholly defensible effort by the board (and the positions are unpaid) to look like the community in which it lives. Certainly corporations are trying to do just that.
But why allow nuance when incitement is so much more fun.
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