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Newt Said It!
Date: January 7, 1997
Remarks made by House Speaker Newt Gingrich after
winning a second term as
Speaker Of the House
Excerpt of remarks on race:
"…My point is very simple. I don’t believe any rational American can be
comfortable with where we are on the issue of race. And I think all of us
ought to take on the challenge as leaders, beyond legislation, beyond our
normal jobs, of asking some new questions in some new ways. After all, what
does race mean when if based on merit alone, ethnic Asians would make up a
clear majority at the University of California at Berkeley? What does race
mean when colleges recruit minorities in the name of inclusiveness and
diversity and then segregate them in their own dormitories?
WHAT DOES RACE
MEAN WHEN MANY AMERICANS CANNOT FILL OUT THEIR CENSUS FORMS BECAUSE THEY’RE
AN AMALGAM OF RACES? And furthermore, if those of us who are conservative
say that bureaucracy and compulsion is not the answer, then what are we going
to say to a child born in a poor neighborhood with a broken home and no one
to help them rise, who has no organic contact to prosperity and has no
organic contact to a better future?…".
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