Lately I've been seeing that some people, mostly Democrats, are taking shots at President Obama's recent selections for various positions that are coming open. The complaints have to do with diversity.
The one I see the most of in the news Charles Rangel, a liberal democratic congressman from New York who said that lack of diversity is "as embarrassing as hell."
I thought this is what we as Americans were supposed to be getting away from, i.e. choosing people based on irrelevant factors such as gender and ethnic background and focusing instead on the ability to do the job. If Rangel was going in the hospital for a serious procedure (and by the way, government is a serious matter), wouldn't he want the most medically qualified doctors to work on him and not the most diverse?
To me, merit trumps diversity every time.
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