Does America Want Submissive Leaders? Why do people apologize, prostrate themselves and wash someone else’s feet?

Powerline Blog ^ | 06/08/2020 | John Hinderaker

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Hell, for DECADES they’ve been admitted to colleges with far worse grades and test scores than whites and Asians. Just one famous case from 1977...that is FORTY THREE years ago.

Regents of the University of California v. Bakke

Allan Bakke, a thirty-five-year-old white man, had twice applied for admission to the University of California Medical School at Davis. He was rejected both times. The school reserved sixteen places in each entering class of one hundred for "qualified" minorities, as part of the university's affirmative action program, in an effort to redress longstanding, unfair minority exclusions from the medical profession. Bakke's qualifications (college GPA and test scores) exceeded those of any of the minority students admitted in the two years Bakke's applications were rejected. Bakke contended, first in the California courts, then in the Supreme Court, that he was excluded from admission solely on the basis of race.

The CA Supreme Court split the baby...

There was no single majority opinion. Four of the justices contended that any racial quota system supported by government violated the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr., agreed, casting the deciding vote ordering the medical school to admit Bakke. However, in his opinion, Powell argued that the rigid use of racial quotas as employed at the school violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The remaining four justices held that the use of race as a criterion in admissions decisions in higher education was constitutionally permissible. Powell joined that opinion as well, contending that the use of race was permissible as one of several admission criteria. So, the Court managed to minimize white opposition to the goal of equality (by finding for Bakke) while extending gains for racial minorities through affirmative action.

[Zhang Fei]

Given that the Christian Messiah used to wash the feet of big-time sinners and crooks, this is probably appropriate. What the people being serviced probably need, though, is full-body immersion and even that might not get them completely clean.