Given his recent enthusiasm for race-baiting, it’s no surprise that Jack Cashill would kick off his March 6 WorldNetDaily column by lashing out against DEI initiatives:
“Florida is where DEI goes to die,” Gov. Ron DeSantis posted on Twitter this past week. He was celebrating the end of the DEI regime at the University of Florida and at other public universities throughout the state.
At the University of Florida this meant closing the office of the chief diversity officer, halting all DEI. contracts, and eliminating 13 full-time positions and 15 part-time assignments for faculty members.
What was surprising about the move was the lack of outrage from the usual sources. In its article on the purge, the only critics the New York Times could muster were a state representative and the state’s Democrat Party chair who warned, the impact “will be felt for generations.” Yawn.
Nearly four years after the onset of George Floyd mania with its obsessive and destructive focus on race, we may be heading to an era of what the late Democrat Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan called “benign neglect.”
What Cashill means by benign neglect, though, is that government shouldn’t be helping black people at all because they’re too lazy and immoral:
Before the 1960s, among black families, Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) cases and employment numbers rose and fell in near perfect harmony: the lower the unemployment rate, the fewer the AFDC cases.
In 1960, “for the first time” as Moynihan pointed out, unemployment numbers declined, but the number of new AFDC cases rose. This seemingly freakish pattern repeated itself in 1963 and again in 1964.
More jobs no longer meant fewer people dependent on government assistance. This unwelcome development put pressure on government resources, but that was a minor problem compared to the damage done to family and community stability.
[…]In 1965, roughly one out of every four black children was born out of wedlock. Today, it is close to three out of four. As Moynihan predicted, the gap between black and white and Asian achievement widened as the black family continued to dissolve.
As the gap widened, frustration grew. Rather than address the core problem demagogues had to invent new outrages like “white supremacy” to explain it away and exploit it. No one has done this more viciously – or ineptly – than Joe Biden.
With the navel-gazing DEI era possibly coming to end, it is time to send Biden packing and give “benign neglect” a fighting chance.
As if Cashill’s casual racism isn’t even more vicious. He is, after all, the guy who defends white men who kill black people (i.e., George Zimmerman and Derek Chauvin).
Cashill served up a mix of homophobia and race-baiting in his March 27 column. He begins by speculating why there nobody on the PGA gour “is openly gay, probably not even covertly gay,” citing the case of the one openly gay golfer to play, Tadd Fujikawa. Then the racism creeps in:
Almost all successful pro golfers had supportive parents and a close relationship with their fathers. Most of those fathers were golfers themselves, often club pros. In fact, it is very difficult to succeed at a high level in golf without an early start and consistent training.
Less is known about Fujikawa’s background, but we do know this. In his senior year in high school, his father, Derrick, pleaded guilty to two counts of drug trafficking and was sentenced to 10 years in prison. This is a basketball bio, not golf.
Cashill ultimately concluded: “I find compelling the thesis that a strong loving relationship with a hands-on father minimizes the likelihood of a son emerging as gay. The PGA tour would be a good place to test that thesis.” He then added: “The problem is that no funder would support that kind of research. If there are no more born gays than there are born golfers, the whole ‘God made me this way’ paradigm collapses.” Of course, the existence of LGBT children born to loving parents blows up his nasty little thesis.