The engine of diversity runs on profiling. Here is mine.
I am white, straight, male, working class with a BA in English Literature and a JD in law. I worked for many years in New York book publishing.
I have been blacklisted by the UAW and ostracized by the legal profession.
I believe in the sanctity of human life. I believe in an education system that is a 19th century mess of homeschool, charter schools, vouchers, Christian, Jewish, and other religious schools. I believe in the dignity of the individual and in individual rights. I believe that the left's obsession with group rights will destroy the bill of rights, in particular, the first, second, fourth and fifth amendments. I believe that there is no right to privacy in the constitution, but that that constitution provides concrete and powerful restraints on state power that are far more effective than rights imagined and teased from the air.
My Scots-Irish-English ancestors fought in every war since there were settlements to protect in North America. And I believe that we have the right to defend ourselves now and that the war on terrorists is real. I believe that there would still be slavery in the West if not for the Christian conscience. If you don't believe me, look at the Sudan, at Nigeria, at too much of Africa and Asia.
I believe in the Culture War; that the workplace, the classroom, and the sanctuary have become for good and ill, war zones.
I believe that for reasons both admirable and not, that English has become the language of freedom in the past two centuries.
I believe that poverty is an evil that can be eradicated. I believe that the left wants us to be poor and powerless. I believe that human evil endures like roaches in blast zone. Evil is the true poverty -- the poor indeed will always be with us.
I believe in equal opportunity, not equal outcomes.
I believe that religion re-moralizes; radical secularism de-moralizes.
And, I believe that at the heart of any community worthy of the name is the health, education and safety of its children.
That belief is at the heart of America and American exceptionalism. When that belief has failed -- and it has -- the consequences have been tragic and massive. And they can be seen in every place where the pitilessness of tribal politics triumphs over love and compassion.
Sam Macomb
