Wall Street Journal Predicts Passage of California Private Foundation Diversity Bill

We have previously reported on a California Bill that would not only require large foundations to divulge the race, gender, and sexual preferences of both their boards and their charitable recipients.   In at least one report, we agreed that Diversity would not be an issue but for the continuing existence of its evil stepbrother, Discrimination.  We also agreed though with a L.A. Times Op-Ed that suggested that perhaps the problem could be addressed a little better (to put it mildly) thinking.  For other previous posts see here.  A recent Wall Street Op-Ed piece — perhaps flaming the hysteria fires — predicts that not only will the bill pass and be signed by the Terminator, it will also be introduced on a national level in Congress:

Lest you think this idea is too wacky to go anywhere, it is also expected to pass the California Senate and could soon land on Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s desk. The Greenlining staff is already lobbying House Ways and Means Chairman Charlie Rangel for Congressional hearings. Foundations and charities that don’t want to start apportioning their donations by skin color, or between gays and heterosexuals, had better start describing this idea as the political shakedown it is.

Will wonders never cease?  I must say, these types of “white guilt” enactments (it will take more than votes of the few people of color in the legislature to get this passed — assuming people of color even vote for this bill — (see the comments of the former NAACP Counsel against it in the Wall Street Journal link above) — do more harm than good.  Anyway, all of the links above contain all the information you will need to completely inform yourselves of the Bill’s progress through the California legislature on its way to the Govenor’s desk. 

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