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This issue will never go away.
It’s become a full employment scheme for the ACLU.
Has anybody ever noticed that the liberals who run around screaming about gay marriage equality in the name of the 14th Amendment are the same liberals who believe in racial quotas and affirmative action which contradicts the 14th Amendment?
Only problem is several of the members of the SCOTUS are on the bench because of affirmative action.
It’s “the pursuit of happiness”, folks. Not a state-authorized guarantee of happiness. Affirmative action by definition discriminates against some citizen or citizens. How can this be constitutional?
Reparations for all victims of affirmative action!!!
Kagan is taking a dive on this one. The Dems WANT affirmative action torpedoed in this case, in order to energize their base for Obama ("If Obama doesn't appoint the next Supreme Court Justice, affirmative action will be HISTORY!").
Maybe their doing this because Kennedy tipped his hand to one of his clerks or something. Why would they take it up again unless an overturning was in the cards? I don’t mind equal pay and fair protection in the workplace, but affirmitive action has always been a sore point with me. This is good news, thanks for the thread.
uhh oh.....hope Revs. Jackson and Sharpton have invested their nest eggs wisely...
For anyone interested -
Review the effects of the current Texas system. it is really shocking.
When the news talks about it - they say “you can get into UT if in top 10% of graduating HS class” - and it sounds like simple sop to the minorities - and you figure - well - still top 10% - right?
BUT - the play continues - if you are in top 25%, and score X on the test - you also get in.
Now the “X” is set fairly low - but in a white school - top 25% wouldn’t score that low - but in a minority school - etc -
anyway - it is bizarre - people are moving TO minority school districts - because it is so much easier to get into UT from a bad school district.
It is really a crazy system - but you can imagine - how much they had to screw with the numbers - try to get 10-20% blacks into UT.
I’ve lived under affirmative action regimes from the year I graduated from high school (1964) up to this year when I reach my “normal retirement age” of 66. Because I am not a member of a “protected class” I’ve been adversely affected by this my whole life, my children have also been adversely affected and my grandchildren are beginning to reach the points in their lives where they will be adversely affected. How long will the injustice of this practice be allowed to continue? When will we all be allowed to have a true EQUAL OPPORTUNITY to pursue happiness and not have some groups GUARANTEED equal results?
Our country desperately needs to get to a point where ALL persons have truly equal opportunities and get away from our current situation where some are “MORE EQUAL” than others merely because of the “group” they are in.
It was Justice O’Conner who came up with the idea that, thirty years after the Civil Rights of 1964, another twenty-five years of race-based admissions could be countenanced.
Even so, the rule was supposed to be in the context of no race-neutral “remedy” was practical. But, UT had a race-neutral remedy, one of admitting students based on class rank (as opposed to basing admission on a score on a standardized exam). So, UT dispensed with its race-neutral remedy and went with a race-based policy. It thus demonstrated bad faith and should be disciplined by the Supreme Court.
Having said that, UT may have opened the door for overturning the O’Conner rule on the basis that nobody can trust the bums in public institutions such as UT and a “bright line” of no race-based admissions criteria is the only enforceable rule.
With some indulgence, I’d like to comment briefly on why winning the Presidential election is so very important important. It looks as though we will only suffer the appointment of two younger Marxist-multiculturalists, replacing two of the more liberal members of the Supreme Court.
Just imagine if the interloper has another four years? He will probably be able to complete the replacement of the aging liberal members of the Court with younger Marxist-multiculturalists; and, may even replace one or two of our guys with younger Marxist-multiculuralists as well.
Just this alone should sober up anyone who believes in the principles upon which this country was founded.
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