Lethal blow

Washington Times ^ | Tuesday, January 21, 2003 | Bruce Fein

[JohnHuang2]

Last Thursday, the Justice Department, speaking through Solicitor General Theodore Olson and echoing President George W. Bush, upbraided the racially skewed diversity admissions programs of the University of Michigan and Michigan Law school in twin cases pending before the United States Supreme Court, Gratz vs. Bollinger and Grutter vs. Bollinger. Filing as an amicus curiae (or friend of the court), the department saluted reasons for holding the race preferences unconstitutional that would shipwreck all race-based admissions criteria (except where necessary to remedy past racial discrimination).

[JohnHuang2]

Tuesday, January 21, 2003

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[Brad’s Gramma]

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[JohnHuang2]

Hey, I know you! ;^)

[Howlin]

Two different views in the same paper.

[JohnHuang2]

My view is the briefing was even stronger than Bush's statement.

[Howlin]

Well, that's the impression I got, but everybody knows I'm a BushBot so I must be wrong.

[JohnHuang2]

Quit spamming! hehehe

[JohnHuang2]

Oh, but of course ;^)

[Brad’s Gramma]

NO!!!!!!! Never!!!!!!!

LOLOLOL

[MHGinTN]

Fred Barnes (who's he?) agrees with you, JH2. I'm still scratching my noggin over the original suit ... I mean, I thought the issue was entry into the Law School, where merit ought be the ONLY criteria. If a State University wants to weight their admissions policy regarding entry level to the school, so be it, it still ought require the entering students to make the grades thus proving true intent and purpose for admission. I would vehemently object to the 'giving' of degrees and years of school attention/ position without grades ... Oops! U of Miami wouldn't have a football team in the national rankings if that were the case! Oh well, it's all too confusing for me.

[MHGinTN]

Who knew being black could be worth more than a perfect score on SATs?... I'd laugh, if it weren't so nauseatingly patronizing to assign favor by assigning excessive value to race over academic achievement.

[Howlin]

I happened to catch Donahue tonight and they had a discussion about reparations.

Evidently just being black is worth a LOT of money to those people.

It as scary. I had this feeling I have when people start talking about things over and over and then -- tada -- it's a done deal.

[Howlin]

What I'm trying to figure out is how all these people think Bush should have EXPANDED on this lawsuit and are giving him hell because he didn't abolish AA right out.

Anybody who has even read anything about these kinds of appeals knows you can only "reply" to what is being disputed and/or adjudicated. You don't just "go off" on a tangent about something else you want to correct.

[JohnHuang2]

Fred Barnes (who's he?) agrees with you,

Caught him on Brit's show yesterday -- thought his analysis was excellent.

[JohnHuang2]

giving him hell because he didn't abolish AA right out.

Had he done so, he'd draw fire for not exercising political smarts and opening himself up to charges of racism and extremism.

[Howlin]

Well, since that is the main thing the people around here wanted, I guess we know what result they wanted, eh?

[EternalVigilance]

In sum, the sermon of the Bush administration's brief is that government must treat citizens as individuals, not as components of racial or ethnic groups, to honor the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection. It is the boldest challenge ever launched by a president on the indiscriminate favoritism of anointed minority groups since their flowering in 1969. It holds the promise of a race relations shot heard throughout the nation.

And a wonderful, and welcome, sermon it was!

[JohnHuang2]

;^)

[JohnHuang2]

government must treat citizens as individuals, not as components of racial or ethnic groups, to honor the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection

Government treating citizens as individuals? Per the Constitution? What a concept, eh? =^)

[MHGinTN]

Reparations?... Extortion! How much of the money black athletes have paid in taxes will be drawn to pay this idiocy? Amazing to consider that democrat politicians would even be so overt in their race baiting ... and get away with it!