Your Diversity Update

This is long overdue.   A check-in with the diversity police to make sure that their initiative is being successfully crammed down our throats.

You see it on most TV commercials.  An ad featuring a married couple or a family must be blended in some fashion.   Multi-racial couple.   An Asian wife with a Hispanic husband.  The combinations are endless.   And used regularly.

You see it on such HGTV shows like "House Hunters."  The folks looking for a new home are always integrated or blended or gay or transgenders.  No one that is just plain Caucasian ever buys property any more.

We are witnessing this over and over and over in anything we watch on television.   Gratuitous, even painfully forced displays of diversity.  Shoved in front of us until we are all...ahem...blue in the face.

Every week, there are new examples of this and here's your latest update.

I just got my Fordham University alumni magazine.  And, because apparently he is the only successful graduate from the school, Denzel Washington is featured in yet another story.  Ever the generous donor, Washington is sponsoring a program for young actors at Fordham to get a chance to show their talents.

Every young actor in the accompanying photo is Black.  So, I come to the conclusion that, as far as Fordham goes, there are no up and coming performers of other races and ethnicities.

Did you watch the introduction of the starting line-ups at baseball's recent All Star Game?  Each player came out with a young girl athlete.   A very nice touch.

How many of those kids were of a color other than Black?   Yep, more goose eggs than a Clayton Kershaw shutout.

Just so you know, the diversity push is still in full swing for other areas of the rainbow.   It was announced this week that several prominent roles in upcoming movies would be cast exclusively with gay or transgender actors.  Forget about sending your head shot if you're anything but.   And the notion that you should always cast the very best person for the job?   Out the proverbial window.

The last example hits me harder than most.   You see, in a project we have, there is the small role of a handyman who happens to be in the middle of a transgender.   It was a cute idea for a recurring character and we came up with this idea long before the big diversity push began.  Now we are inclined to simply change it out because we don't want to go through the hassle of a fight. Or risk getting the dreaded hashtag.

Who is the person who made all these decisions for us?   Where do they live and do they have breakable windows?   

To me, the best person for a job or a promotion or a role should be the most qualified, regardless of who they are, what they look like, and where they sit on the chromosome fence.   I guess that's completely over for now.

But, there is good news on the horizon.   With this latest push, in about a decade or so, White job candidates are really going to be a commodity.

Ugh.  Make the insanity stop!  Because, in this fight to end discrimination, it is indeed being promoted at every turn.

Dinner last night:  Bacon and tomato salad.