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Federal court: Michigan ban on race in college admissions illegal
wtol ^ | 7-1-11 | AP

Posted on 07/01/2011 9:48:42 AM PDT by Main Street

Edited on 07/01/2011 10:39:14 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]

DETROIT (AP) - A federal appeals court has struck down Michigan's ban on the consideration of race and gender when enrolling students at public colleges and universities.

In a 2-1 decision Friday, the court said Michigan's Proposal 2 is unconstitutional because it burdens minorities. It was approved by voters in 2006.


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TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: affirmativeaction; ericholderspeeps; michigan; mypeople; uofm
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To: Main Street

Racism alive and well. Without these racist programs where would Obuttface, The Moocher, and her rats be?


21 posted on 07/01/2011 10:07:07 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot ((Read "The Grey Book" for an alternative to corruption in DC))
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To: WOBBLY BOB

Interesting. That was with O’Connor still on the court; Kennedy dissented. That case would likely have a different result today.


22 posted on 07/01/2011 10:07:17 AM PDT by xjcsa (Ridiculing the ridiculous since the day I was born.)
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To: Main Street

Seeing as how liberals decry the evils of Institutional Racism, I’m certain they will oppose this decision.


23 posted on 07/01/2011 10:10:26 AM PDT by kanawa
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To: cripplecreek

Time to cut off taxpayer funding of colleges and universities. If they have to start paying their own way, the only color they’ll care about is green.
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yes yes yes!!!

...along with a bunch of other things, that the government has NO right to give our money to.

if a private bank, feels a student is a good risk for a loan, that’s their business. but it is fundamentally wrong to give taxpayer money to blacks and hispanics, and not whites and asians.
(aside from the constitution not making the Government a loan or grant office in the first place...)


24 posted on 07/01/2011 10:10:44 AM PDT by Elendur (the hope and change i need: Sarah / Colonel West in 2012)
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To: Main Street

The U.S. has already been around the block on this. Affirmative action was a well-meaning, ill-conceived program. Conclusion: academic achievement should be the sole criterion for admission and advancement. Make sure the educational system is good from the earliest grades to give all equal opportunity to achieve, but don’t pretend they’ve achieved when they have not.


25 posted on 07/01/2011 10:11:50 AM PDT by Seeing More Clearly Now (From 1963 Congressional Record http://www.uhuh.com/nwo/communism/comgoals.htm)
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To: xjcsa

That’s why we need an affirmative action case to go to the Supreme Court soon. Great chance to kill affirmative action.


26 posted on 07/01/2011 10:12:58 AM PDT by Blackandproud
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To: Main Street

Sooo, instead of may the best person win, it is now the law of the land that if you are a shiftless lazy amish lad wearing your pants to your knees and your dreadlocks in place and you put forth little effort to better yourself in high school, you will get extra special bonus admittance to colege, jobs, etc?
Near time for that little revolution yet?
And Sandra Day O’conner says itis wrong to criticiize judges, many ought be in prison or worse.


27 posted on 07/01/2011 10:14:00 AM PDT by Joe Boucher ((FUBO) NO RINOs)
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To: Main Street

From the decision:

“Hunter and Seattle thus expounded the rule that an enactment deprives minority groups of equal protection of the laws when it: (1) has a racial focus, targeting a goal or program that “inures primarily to the benefit of the minority”; and (2) works a reallocation of political power or reordering of the decisionmaking process that places “special burdens” on a minority group’s ability to achieve its goals through that process.”

http://www.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf/11a0174p-06.pdf

Apparently, any reward of a minority group is legal, and refusing to give special treatment is banned because equal protection is unequal.

Further, any election that results in a minority group losing power is an unconstitutional election.

WOW!

So Obama cannot be removed from office unless the opponent is black, since the election of a white to replace a black would “work a reallocation of political power or reordering of the decisionmaking process that places “special burdens” on a minority group’s ability to achieve its goals through that process.”

Guess Cain is our only hope to defeat Obama, since it would be illegal to frustrate black voters by allowing a white man or woman to replace him.

Alice in Wonderland: equal treatment is illegal because equal protection under the law requires unequal treatment.


28 posted on 07/01/2011 10:14:12 AM PDT by Mr Rogers (Poor history is better than good fiction, and anything with lots of horses is better still)
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To: kjo

Yeah discrimination is fine when you are discriminating in a way that is favorable to liberal goals. It is too bad the constitution doesn’t go further in banning ‘bills of attainder’ and similiar types of special protections for special groups.


29 posted on 07/01/2011 10:17:28 AM PDT by Maelstorm (Better to keep your enemy in your sights than in your camp expecting him to guard your back.)
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To: KarlInOhio
I think Kafka wrote an outline for this story, but then went back to a man turning into a giant bug as more realistic.

And, I recall that even that story had an unhappy ending.

30 posted on 07/01/2011 10:18:49 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: KarlInOhio
Some authoritarians in black robes have ruled that only through government mandated preferential treatment according to race can we achieve the Constitutionally mandated equal protection under the law.

I think you have it down very well.

31 posted on 07/01/2011 10:18:49 AM PDT by He Rides A White Horse ((unite))
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To: Mr Rogers

“equal treatment is illegal because equal protection under the law requires unequal treatment.”
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ouch. that hurts my head, just to read!


32 posted on 07/01/2011 10:22:37 AM PDT by Elendur (the hope and change i need: Sarah / Colonel West in 2012)
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To: Main Street

Insanity. We successfully defended such a law in CA.


33 posted on 07/01/2011 10:23:43 AM PDT by newzjunkey
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To: Mr Rogers

So Obama cannot be removed from office unless the opponent is black, since the election of a white to replace a black would “work a reallocation of political power or reordering of the decisionmaking process that places “special burdens” on a minority group’s ability to achieve its goals through that process.”

Guess Cain is our only hope to defeat Obama, since it would be illegal to frustrate black voters by allowing a white man or woman to replace him....

Representative Allen West would be even better.


34 posted on 07/01/2011 10:24:02 AM PDT by Seeing More Clearly Now (From 1963 Congressional Record http://www.uhuh.com/nwo/communism/comgoals.htm)
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To: kjo

The Bizarro District Court of Appeals. Up is down.The only cure for discrimination is discrimination.


35 posted on 07/01/2011 10:25:24 AM PDT by chuckee
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To: ilovesarah2012

That’s a good question because the implications of the court’s statement are very racist. “It burdens minorities..... because they can’t compete in a fair admissions process.”


36 posted on 07/01/2011 10:26:44 AM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: Main Street
A friends wife is a doctor ( and a screaming liberal ) who trains any number of residents each year. We had a discussion recently in which she flat out stated she is deeply worried about the level of competence of the black residents. Not all but most of them. She stated they must have been pushed along due to affirmative action and certainly not merit. They are nowhere near qualified to be residents let along doctors.

The students she trains who she believes are the best educated and talented are from Asia and India. Their level of knowledge is far above all the other students.

37 posted on 07/01/2011 10:28:19 AM PDT by warsaw44
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To: KarlInOhio

“I think Kafka wrote an outline for this story.”

Or maybe the Monty Python crew...


38 posted on 07/01/2011 10:39:25 AM PDT by USMCPOP (Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
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To: Main Street

anyone know how much the voters passed this by?


39 posted on 07/01/2011 10:40:26 AM PDT by MNDude (so that's what they meant by Carter's second term)
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To: Main Street

In Leftyland, “Unequal” is the new “equal”.


40 posted on 07/01/2011 10:46:25 AM PDT by Iron Munro (The more effeminate & debauched the people, the more they are fitted for a tyrannical government.)
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