Black enrollment at top colleges is way down, but that should come as no surprise. After all, this was the clear intent of the White supremacist anti-DEI crusaders who made banning affirmative action a political casus belli. So, mission accomplished! Meanwhile, legacy admissions continue to thrive as it has since time immemorial — as “affirmative… Read more.
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MAGA Judge Rules Minority Business Development Agency Must Serve Whites Too
Minority business programs must benefit Whites Yesterday, a federal judge ordered the Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) to serve (majority) White businesses too. Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell had such orders in mind when he conspired with former President Donald Trump to pack the federal judiciary. They recruited young White men. The primary qualification? Their blind faith in MAGA propaganda and conspiracies. Indeed,… Read more.
Justice Thomas Hired Racist Clerk Because He Hates Black People Too
Thomas: an embarrassment to the Court and his race Let’s face it: Only pathological self-loathing explains this: Justice Clarence Thomas recently hired a law clerk who was previously accused of sending racist text messages. … In late 2017, a New Yorker story reported that Ms. [Crystal] Clanton, who had served for five years as the national field… Read more.
Legacy Admissions: Wesleyan University Ends Practice
Supreme Court Ends Affirmative Action, Continuing Thomas’s Personal Vendetta
Supreme Court ends affirmative action Today, the Supreme Court ended affirmative action. It ruled that the 14th Amendment prohibits public colleges and universities from using racial preferences. And that the 1964 Civil Rights Act prohibits any school receiving federal funds from using race as a factor in admissions. This case was the most controversial of the term. But this decision is anticlimactic. After… Read more.
The Supreme Court Has No Legal Reason to End Affirmative Action. But Its Political Reason Is Compelling.
Based on legal reasoning, precedents, and the justices’ sworn representations, the Supreme Court has no legal reason to end Affirmative Action in college admissions. But it had no legal reason to end a woman’s constitutional abortion rights. Yet the Court did so anyway. Mend, do not end, Affirmative Action Those arguing to end Affirmative Action insist… Read more.
Supreme Court on Affirmative Action; Retired Justice on Gun Control
Affirmative Action Weren’t the past 40 years of affirmative action intended to rectify the lingering consequences of slavery and Jim Crow? Never mind that white women and wealthy Blacks were the ones who benefited most…. Enough already! (“Senate Apologizes for Slavery; Blacks Say, ‘Show Us the Money (Reparations),” The iPINIONS Journal, June 19, 2009) This… Read more.
Black Quarterbacks: Good Enough for the NCAA, but Not the NFL?
I’m not a big Football fan. I spend far more time reading about Football games on Mondays than watching them on Saturdays and Sundays. Black quarterbacks: good enough for the NCAA Nevertheless, as I channel-surfed through college games on Saturday, the number of Black quarterbacks stood out like a yellow flag on the field. After all, I… Read more.