UPDATED: But he isn't wrong!

Why is it that any time someone makes a statement that is not "favorable" to African-Americans, it is considered racist?  Is it not true that the 14th Amendment applies to all citizens, all Americans, and not just African-Americans?

Yes, it is clear that people do not like to hear such things, but it is not wrong.  And it is clear that Scalia often seems either motivated to insult or simply to lack social intelligence.  Still, for all his blunt or careless language, the continued effort to create equality by creating inequality has been shown to be a failure, has such a long list of unintended negative consequences so as to be staggering in its failure.  It is not racist to note that well-intentioned efforts to create equal access and opportunity have morphed into "favored race" status and, among many, a sense of entitlement.  The notion that a government or a society can lift a minority within it up is foolish.  All it can do is provide opportunity for people to lift themselves up.  But efforts to lift people up have failed because they stifle such a process.

I know, I am now being called a racist by someone out there - after all, I am a white Caucasian and, thus, if I speak at all about African-Americans in less than glowing terms, I am a racist.  But that is simply cover and more evidence of the tyranny of low expectations.  As  male, white, Caucasian, I read or hear every day about the shortcomings of the group of which I am seemingly representative.  But, as an apparent majority, I am seemingly also fair game for such criticism.

If we cannot observe and converse openly and honestly, then I am not sure how we ever become one nation.

UPDATE:  There's your problem!

And this is why we can't talk about race - because websites like the Huffington Post and those who follow them think that is one mentions race or a race, they are racist.  Perhaps if people actually looked up the definition of racism they would know more about what it is and what it is not.

In its most simple form, racism is defined as "the belief that some races of people are better than others".  According to Huffington Post: "During oral arguments on an affirmative action case on Tuesday, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said the 14th Amendment protects everyone, not 'only the blacks.'"

Now, it seems to me, that he said all races have a right to equal protection, that it is not just one race, in this case, the black race, that has the right.  That is not a racist sentiment; in fact, given the definition, it seems anti-racist.