The Dividends of Diversity

I had to chuckle this afternoon when I saw this article reporting how Hispanic lawmakers were upset that an insufficient number of Hispanic owned businesses were hired to provide services for the Democrat National Convention in North Carolina. Earlier today, I had read a puff piece from Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the blowhard chair of the DNC in which she touted how the upcoming convention would be the most "transparent" ever. Forgetting for the moment the strange use of "transparent" in connection with a political convention, Wasserman Schultz was actually claiming that diversity would triumph at the convention; all sorts of people would be able to attend. Then, within hours, we learn that the Democrats are discriminating against Hispanic companies according to various Hispanic Democrat lawmakers.

It is hard to claim diversity while discriminating against Hispanics at the same time, but that will not stop Wasserman Schultz. She has never been a slave to the truth. Indeed, she often seems to ignore reality to speak instead of some fantasy which inevitably paints the Republicans as unspeakably evil and the Democrats as the keepers of light and reason. It ought to do her good to be called out for the discriminatory practices of the DNC Convention. Unfortunately, I think she is so far gone down the road of delusion, that I doubt that the facts will concern her very much if at all.