The Obamas and Asian Americans in the wake of SCOTUS’s decision

American Thinker ^ | 30 Jun, 2023 | Ethel C. Fenig

[MtnClimber]

Yesterday the Supreme Court of the US ruled that affirmative action, or race-based college admission decisions of Harvard University and the University of North Carolina were unconstitutional.

According to Chief Justice John Roberts:

Because Harvard’s and UNC’s admissions programs lack sufficiently focused and measurable objectives warranting the use of race, unavoidably employ race in a negative manner, involve racial stereotyping, and lack meaningful end points, those admissions programs cannot be reconciled with the guarantees of the Equal Protection Clause.

Harvard University officials reacted negatively to the Supreme Court's decision, releasing a statement declaring

We write today to reaffirm the fundamental principle that deep and transformative teaching, learning, and research depend upon a community comprising people of many backgrounds, perspectives, and lived experiences. That principle is as true and important today as it was yesterday. So too are the abiding values that have enabled us—and every great educational institution—to pursue the high calling of educating creative thinkers and bold leaders, of deepening human knowledge, and of promoting progress, justice, and human flourishing.

Michelle Obama, an intelligent woman who nevertheless probably benefitted from affirmative action -- and legacy college admissions thanks to her talented brother -- also expressed her opposition to the Supreme Court decision.

Back in college, I was one of the few Black students on my campus, and I was proud of getting into such a respected school. I knew I’d worked hard for it. But still, I sometimes wondered if people thought I got there because of affirmative action. It was a shadow that students like me couldn’t shake, whether those doubts came from the outside or inside our own minds.

[MtnClimber]

This won’t change a thing at Harvard and UNC. They will just have to find more clever ways of discriminating based on race against Asians and whites so they can continue their virtue signaling.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Lefties are just reading from the same playbook they always have.
Page 1866: “You negroes can’t survive without us white plantation owners. Stay here. We feed you, give you clothes on your back and a roof over your head.”

[Bernard]

The total failure of Affirmative Action was clearly displayed in Biden’s Supreme Court appointment. Anybody stupid enough to not be able to explain what a woman is, is not qualified to push a broom on a government payroll, let alone be a Supreme Court Justice. Time to dismantle all AA programs and start over, if at all.

[Obadiah]

So how many outspoken conservative professors are currently employed at Harvard helping to create their rich and diverse environment?

Yeah, that’s what I thought.

[Brandonmark]

Young Black students are forced to attend poor-performing public schools that continue to lower their standards. These young black students reach a diminished educational experience and apply to a college that has a [] box to indicate race. If [x] African American…ACCEPTED. When attending the university if they fail, professors who don’t know better are told by the department head, “It’s not up to us…they have been passed along and we cannot intervene.” These college “graduates” go out in the real world and are not realistically employable. This is not speculation, this is based on actual scenarios that I am aware of. Black families that really want their kids to get an education are demanding school choice, enabling them to have their children attend a non-teacher union charter or private school. This gives these students the opportunity to succeed in school and in the workplace without checking the [] race box.

[CodeToad]

Affirmative Action is a liberal way of saying liberals have no expectations of blacks and women.

[unread]

"to pursue the high calling of educating creative thinkers and bold leaders, of deepening human knowledge, and of promoting progress, justice, and human flourishing."

They left out, And whose ridiculously high tuition's are mostly payed for by the U.S. government.

[BobL]

“This won’t change a thing at Harvard and UNC. They will just have to find more clever ways of discriminating based on race against Asians and whites so they can continue their virtue signaling.”

Not just Harvard and UNC, but EVERY Ivory League and similar school. This crap should have been ended 44 years ago, and if it had been ended then, it would not have ‘baked-in’ to the ‘University Culture’, as it now has.

In fact, what SHOULD be done now, to bake it out, would be to require schools to OBJECTIVELY prove, via test scores, that they are NOT showing favoritism. But we all know that’s not going to happen.

[nopardons]

BTTT

[kabar]

In the case of Harvard, it was discrimination against another minority, Asians.

[ealgeone]

you are correct in your assessment as the court gave them this out.

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The Court also ruled that colleges and universities may consider in admissions decisions “an applicant’s discussion of how race affected his or her life, be it through discrimination, inspiration, or otherwise.”