Race and Gender are not Qualifications!

October 30, 2022

In the US. and most other countries there has long been a system of established qualifications for acceptance, approval, authorization, consideration, contracts, and receipt in many forms of transactions.

Examples of qualifications include age-to buy alcohol or cigarettes, to vote, to rent a car, to rent a hotel room, to join the military, etc. Age has much to do about wisdom and maturity. Education is a qualification for most jobs. Structural engineers have BS degrees. Doctors graduate medical school. Lawyers graduate law school and pass the Bar. BMW mechanics are certified through schooling. Nurses hold BSRN’s.

Experience is a qualification. Pilot training requires hours in the cockpit. Surgeons spend 3 to 5 years as residents learning their skills. Often, years of experience are stated in job postings because many job duties are complex and require accumulated knowledge. A plumber with 10 years of experience has more skill and job knowledge that a plumber with 2 years of experience.

Our world would not function and quite frankly would be dangerous if the above parameters were ignored or eliminated. Maturity, knowledge, wisdom, and skill are critical qualifications.

Race and gender are not qualifications for anything! Being a woman is not sufficient for acceptance, approval or authorization. Same with being Hispanic or Black. Being Black is not a skill. Being a woman is not a job-related experience.

Yet, the leaders in this country often use gender and race preemptively for acceptance or appointments. Our local “fishwrap” the Charlotte Observer stated a US. senatorial candidate is preferred because of race (Black) and gender (woman). How stupid is that?? Biden only considered women for the Supreme Court appointment. Again stupid!

Can you imagine American Airlines only accepting women pilots? Or medical schools only accepting Black applicants? Or a high school only hiring white men?

Using race and gender as criteria is legally wrong and extremely harmful to the country. When I see it, I will protest. I am asking my readers to do the same.