Affirmative Action, RIP
Stop with the theatrics and all of the left-wing wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Exclusive colleges and universities KNEW for months that yesterday’s Supreme Court decision on affirmative action was coming. It was long past time to abandon this racialist policy.
And universities have been readying for it.
Surely you know by now that in a much-anticipated announcement, the Supremes ruled 6-3 that Harvard and the University of North Carolina violated the 14th Amendment’s protection of equal protection under the law with affirmative action policies that put a thumb on the scale for African-American and Hispanic applicants, while discriminating against against Asian and white students.
Sorry, but we all know these clever schools have achieved racial diversity - of course they have no interest in diversity of opinion within their student bodies - and have plans in place that will allow them to continue discriminating.
How will they do it? Who knows. Perhaps video interviews will take the place of test scores. Or zip codes. Or essays.
Back in 1978, when the Court decided the Bakke case, the Supremes ruled that race could be taken into consideration when deciding which students to admit.
Over the years, the Court has nibbled away at the Bakke decision and yesterday it was finally struck down.
My math SAT scores weren’t stellar but my abacus tells me that it’s been 45 years since schools were given the green light to use racial discrimination to end discrimination. That never made sense, frankly.
Perhaps now we can finally realize the dream of Martin Luther King Jr., “…that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”
Oddly enough, the case that killed affirmative action wasn’t brought by white students wanting a better shot at college admissions to exclusive schools.
It was Asian-Americans, who outscore all other racial groups on all academic measures.
The plaintiffs were a group known as Students for Fair Admissions (S.F.F.A.). They argued that the admissions policies of these two schools were “grievously wrong” and produced “crude stereotyping.”
Nevertheless, right on cue the left started howling about yesterday being a good day for white supremacists.
Oh please. Asians are hardly ever white supremacists.
Then there was the height of audacity: Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s reaction on Twitter:
So says the woman who lied about being Native American to snag a plum no-show job at Harvard. Sit this one out, Fauxcohantas. https://t.co/46ZQR0o8RD
— kerry dougherty (@kerrydougherty) June 29, 2023
Most unseemly was the sneering reaction of our C-student president, who graduated 76th in a class of 86 from a second-tier law school (after he failed one class due to plagiarism). Biden didn’t simply say that he disagreed with the decision, but he questioned the legitimacy of the Court itself. He pronounced it not a normal court.
Are the folks loading his teleprompter setting the table for court stacking?
Someone needs to remind the slow learner in the White House that the federal judiciary - headed by the U.S. Supreme Court - is a co-equal branch of government.
Stay in your lane, Joe. You’ve been swerving all over the road for years.
