Essay 529

Politically correct is an oxymoron in a MultiCultClassics Monologue…

• Former President Bill Clinton proclaimed his inability to lessen the economic and social divisions between Blacks and Whites remains one of his “great regrets.” Clinton said, “The idea that I live in a country I spent my lifetime trying to make better, but there’s still hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of people, most of them people of color, who will die before their time, drop out of school, go to prison, never have a chance to live their dreams, is galling and painful to me.” Maybe he was too busy not having sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky.

• Current President George W. Bush has seen his approval ratings slip to an all-time low of 36 percent. However, he has no regrets over his inability to lessen the economic and social divisions between Blacks and Whites.

• A woman of Iranian descent won her lawsuit against Southwest Airlines, nabbing a $27.5 million jury award. The woman accused the airline of racial profiling after clashing with flight attendants during a 2003 trip from Houston to Los Angeles. “In the evidence it came out that one of the flight attendants stated that [the Iranian-American woman] reminded her of a terrorist, and in our views she was the victim of profiling stereotypes and discrimination,” said the woman’s lawyer. Is Southwest’s tagline still A Symbol of Freedom…?