Posted on 09/21/2015 3:33:26 PM PDT by george76
The Supreme Court held, in the 2003 case Grutter v. Bollinger, that it is permissible for universities to give some students preference in admission on the basis of their race. That decision was a serious mistake and it is time to correct it.
The Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is unambiguous: "No state…shall deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." But the Court ruled in Grutter that admissions preference given to blacks and other minorities by a public university is not inconsistent with equal protection.
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Every benefit claimed for campus diversity was contradicted by the results of this study. Students, faculty and administrators all responded to increasing racial diversity by registering increased dissatisfaction with the quality of education at their institution and the work ethic of their peers.
In every instance, a higher level of diversity was found to be associated with less educational satisfaction and worse race relations among students.
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Preference divides the society; it does not heal racial wounds but exacerbates them. ..
Preference breeds hypocrisy; college officials hide what they are doing, sometimes lie about it...
Preference obliges us to choose the ethnic groups to be favored, and to devise rules to decide who is a member of what group. How much blood is needed? One drop? One grandparent? One great-grandparent? ..
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race preference undermines the minorities it was intended to support.
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When all these consequences are put on the scale, and weighed against the alleged benefits of diversity, it is impossible to conclude that those benefits (if they exist at all) are such compelling needs of the state as to justify deliberate racial discrimination.
The decision in Grutter v. Bollinger must be reversed.
(Excerpt) Read more at popecenter.org ...
Exactly correct. We live in Alice in Wonderland, created by the elites through “manufacturing consent”.
To a high school valedictorian, who happens to be white, what is affirmative about affirmative action?
Justice Scalia, joined by Justice Thomas
“It has come to this. Called upon to explore the jurisprudential twilight zone between two errant lines of precedent, we confront a frighteningly bizarre question: Does the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment forbid what its text plainly requires? Needless to say (except that this case obliges us to say it), the question answers itself.”
The SCOTUS Decision
WaPo write up.
Yup, reverse descrimination is wrong. Just makes things worse.
The government has actively discriminated against me my entire working life.
Now, who are the racists?
From what I’ve read about Affirmative Action, I can only say that I think the whole thing is racist.
Saying that places have to have x amount of blacks, to me is actually racist.
I always believe people, regardless of colour, should be judged and admitted to places purely on the basis of merit.
you mean the kids that worked to earn their entrance get pissy towards those given a free pass?
go figure.
you’d almost think those not given a free pass are second class citizens
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke 1978 landmark decision
Yes, by putting together a collection of special interests into a majority of people (Blacks, Native Americans, Hispanics, homosexuals and women) the elites created a majority to discriminate against straight white men.
Then when the minority students started failing at the rates predicted by their SAT and other scores, the same people demanded that standards be lowered. This country is being run by the dumbest segment of the population.
Race relations on campus are doomed because there is a built-in inferiority for minority students from affirmative action. Preferred minorities that may be suitable for community college are bumped up to state schools, and those suitable for state schools are put in the Ivy League. They all end up seriously lagging behind their white/Asian male counterparts, and are doomed to fail; rather than face reality, the administrations simply pass them through. It is a recipe for failure and resentment; we’d accomplish a lot more with honesty (letting the community college minority go to community college, the state college candidate go to state college, and any Ivy League-qualified go to the Ivy League (just like the whites with whom they claim equality). They’d get real educations, and play on level playing fields instead of being suspended over the field by a government that believes, in all of its actions, that blacks, Hispanics, and women are completely inferior.
Teachers, police, and journalism are by far the three easiest degrees to get and accordingly attract those individuals with the laziest intellect. Not a slam on all the the fine Americans who choose these degrees but merely an observation on why there should not make policy, they are too lazy to think things through, like affirmative action. Common sense predicted this, but a degree was trump.
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