In the 1986 movie Soul Man, C. Thomas Howell squandered the last of his Red Dawn teen-star career momentum on a dreadful movie about a white college student who gets into Harvard by, er, turning black.
You’ve probably never heard of Vijay Chokal-Ingam. You may know of his sister, actress Mindy Kalling (“The Office”, “The Mindy Project”), and then again, you may not, either.
And I have a hunch the forces of political correctness will do their best to make sure Chokal-Ingam does not become a household name; he’s become an activist against Affirmative Action.
His journey there, from being an unknown pre-med student, is wrapped up in this; a stunt to get into med school that sounds like it was ripped from Soul Man:
So, I shaved my head, trimmed my long Indian eyelashes, and applied to medical school as a black man. My change in appearance was so startling that my own fraternity brother didn’t recognize me at first. I even joined the Organization of Black Students and started using my embarrassing middle name that I had hidden from all of my friends since I was a 9 years old.
Read the whole thing.
Now that it has been decided that ‘gender’ (which used to be simply for determining proper nouns, but whatevs) is now subjectively determined instead of biologically determined, who is to disagree that as a kid born and raised in the the city of Detroit (not some suburb) in the 1970’s that I can’t be what my heart believes I am: an inner city black man. Yo.
If a man gets up today and says he’s a woman, media (and others in the establishment) will refer to him using feminine pronouns.
So if I get up tomorrow and decide that I am an American Indian, then others should respect my identity and refer to me as one.
I think Selfores is onto something. If a man can say he’s a woman for the purpose of using the ladies’ room, why can’t a white man say he’s black or whatever for the purpose of getting into med school? Or a governor could say he’s Hispanic….
Could kill off the absurdity of Affirmative Action really quick……