The four major television networks' capitulation to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's (NAACP) demand to hire more black actors, writers, and directors promotes racism not cures it, said a senior writer for the Ayn Rand Institute.
"Racism is the elevation of membership in a racial group over individual merit," said Robert W. Tracinski. "The injustice of racism, and the reason it must be opposed, is that it demands that individuals of ability be ignored or attacked for no other reason than their skin color."
Tracinski said that the NAACP's message is clear: considerations having to do with individual merit—are irrelevant.
"The only thing that is supposed to matter is the irrelevant fact that these actors, writers, and directors have dark skin—and will therefore be hired not because they can do the work but because they ‘represent' their racial group," said Tracinski. Tracinski noted that the consequence of the NAACP's demands will be the unjust branding of every black writer, director, or actor subsequently hired as a quota-filler not as an individual who earned his job.
Ayn Rand Institute senior writer Robert W. Tracinski is available for interviews.
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