Clarence Thomas: Affirmative Action Is Just Like Segregation

Business Insider ^ | June 24, 2013 | Josh Barro

[george76]

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.. the Supreme Court sent the University of Texas' affirmative action program back for a lower court for review by a vote of 7-1.

Justice Clarence Thomas concurred in that decision but also wrote a scathing concurring opinion saying he would have rejected Texas' affirmative action program outright as unconstitutional.

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There is no principled distinction between the University’s assertion that diversity yields educational benefits and the segregationists’ assertion that segregation yielded those same benefits.

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The Constitution does not pander to faddish theories about whether race mixing is in the public interest. The Equal Protection Clause strips States of all authority to use race as a factor in providing education. All applicants must be treated equally under the law, and no benefit in the eye of the beholder can justify racial discrimination.

Thomas also wrote that universities' arguments about promoting diversity are canards

[Arm_Bears]

I have searched diligently for empirical, peer-reviewed confirmation of the “benefits” derived from “diversity.”

Goose egg, so far.

Maybe I’m looking in the wrong places.

[NotYourAverageDhimmi]

I greatly admire Justice Thomas. He knows that he is hated by members of his own race and denounced as an Uncle Tom for doing nothing more than thinking independently, fairly, and correctly. It takes a lot of integrity to stand up for what’s right in the face of such attacks.

[jimfree]

I have searched diligently for empirical, peer-reviewed confirmation of the “benefits” derived from “diversity.”

Every western nation has a version of victim advocacy and all claim that it is beneficial to the culture.

[Servant of the Cross]

He knows that he is hated by members of his own race and denounced as an Uncle Tom for doing nothing more than thinking independently, fairly, and correctly.

This is a circus. It’s a national disgrace [yea, I mean you Biden]. It’s a high-tech lynching for uppity Blacks, who in any way deign to think for themselves. And it is a message, that unless you kowtow to the old order, you will be lynched, destroyed, caricatured … by a committee of the U.S. Senate rather than hung from a tree.

[VRW Conspirator]

I have searched diligently for empirical, peer-reviewed confirmation of the “benefits” derived from “diversity.” Goose egg, so far.

Well, then, you must be a racist-sexist-homophobic-anti-Semite Oh and a killer-of-little-puppies.

[BuckeyeTexan]

FReepmail me to subscribe to or unsubscribe from the SCOTUS ping list.

[Arm_Bears]

You left out halitosis.

[Arm_Bears]

Indeed they do; but, as we say here in the South: “Sayin’ don’t make it so.”

[jimfree]

Being a lefty means never having to prove your claims.

[Standing Wolf]

There is no principled distinction between the University’s assertion that diversity yields educational benefits and the segregationists’ assertion that segregation yielded those same benefits.

There stands a man who speaks the truth.

[PapaNew]

Clarence Thomas: Affirmative Action Is Just Like Segregation

How I hate "affirmative action" (unconstitutional government coercion). How I love Clarance Thomas.

[1010RD]

Uncle Tom was a good guy and a hero. He stands up for what he believes in. He’s a committed Christian. His nobility is such that even his enemies admire him, however grudgingly.

Is it any wonder that the Left has derided him and cursed his name with lies?

Do you think for a minute that the race-baiters would want another Booker T. Washington to arise as a black leader?