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Why Are Race-Based Scholarships and Programs Suddenly Under Attack?
James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal ^ | August 5, 2024 | T.J. Harker

Posted on 08/14/2024 3:34:25 AM PDT by karpov

For nearly five decades, American universities systematically discriminated against white and Asian Americans. Quotas, “holistic review processes,” and “factors” were used to advance the Left’s racist social policies, first on the pretense that they remedied prior discrimination, next in alignment with the theory that diversity was good for the nation, and most recently to deal with the pretend phenomena known as “systemic racism” and “white privilege.”

Such racist, utopian scheming used to be called “affirmative action,” an innocuous term designed to conceal blatantly racist and unlawful discrimination. But despite the anodyne packaging, discrimination against whites and Asians violates the plain meaning of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (and amendments thereto) and the Fourteenth Amendment. It always has. Today, more Americans, including more white and Asian-American students, are fighting back against the Left’s racist university-admissions policies, scholarship eligibility criteria, and related practices.

These changes are happening around the nation, including in North Carolina’s leading institutions, with Duke walking back a race-based scholarship program on the heels of the Supreme Court’s momentous ruling against the University of North Carolina and Harvard College in 2023’s Students for Fair Admissions.

The Constitution and the nation’s paramount civil-rights laws prohibit the type of racism that, for 50 years, the Left has advanced. Indeed, only a lawyer with a particular ideological bent could ignore the plain meaning of Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment (No state shall “deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws”) or the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (“No person … shall, on the ground of race … be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance”).

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KEYWORDS: college; collegeadmissions; racialpreferences
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1 posted on 08/14/2024 3:34:25 AM PDT by karpov
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To: karpov

Because they’re racist.

You racists.


2 posted on 08/14/2024 3:38:30 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (And yet we have the morally inverted allahu akhbar chorus at FR on the pro-barbarism side!)
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To: karpov

Its not “sudden”. People have been fighting it for years and have recently been granted favorable court decisions allowing for a further dismantling of racist quotas.


3 posted on 08/14/2024 3:39:58 AM PDT by Adder (End fascism...defeat all Democrats.)
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To: Uncle Miltie

lol. Exactly what I was going to post.

I wonder if they know they are racist and don’t care.

Or are just morons.


4 posted on 08/14/2024 3:42:07 AM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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To: karpov

Theory: corrupt academia can’t survive without whitey’s money?


5 posted on 08/14/2024 3:46:09 AM PDT by IncPen ("Inside of every progressive is a Totalitarian screaming to get out" ~ David Horowitz)
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To: MeanWestTexan

They practice the “good” kind of racism as opposed to the bad kind of racism you see......


6 posted on 08/14/2024 4:00:01 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: IncPen

My theory: the elites believe that successful whites can’t be controlled. Therefore only minorities are allowed to be successful—until they can’t be controlled.


7 posted on 08/14/2024 4:02:52 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: karpov

Why do race-based scholarships even exist?


8 posted on 08/14/2024 4:02:52 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Perfection is impossible. But if you pursue perfection...you may achieve excellence.)
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To: karpov
All that and he never gets to the root issue.

Iowa House GOP: Teaching About Systemic Racism Is Marxist

“Critical theory is simply Marxism that has been updated for the modern day,” Salmon said. “It is Marxism 2.0. What we are prohibiting is simply Marxism 2.0 training in our schools … Under this updated Marxism, the oppressed are to rise up and defeat and destroy the white class, which is the oppressor. So it’s very much the same thing, its just an updated form of Marxism.”

The writer is paying lip service, not gettng to the root of the issue. Even the BLM leaders say they were trained Marxists.

9 posted on 08/14/2024 4:13:33 AM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Tell It Right

Identity politics is a mine field as bongino often says identity politics is by definition cannibalistic. BLM means Hispanic, Asian….. lives don’t. Put in policies that promote one over the others causes resentment by them.

Hispanic polling numbers are causing concern for the dims, as well as black men, Asians and Jews.


10 posted on 08/14/2024 4:32:11 AM PDT by blitz128
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To: karpov

BTTT


11 posted on 08/14/2024 4:41:48 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: karpov
This is an excellent posting.  Lots of good analysis and writing in the piece.  Thanks, karpov.

To me, the fundamental problem with DEI is contained in the phrase:


12 posted on 08/14/2024 4:42:53 AM PDT by poconopundit (MAGA isn’t a slogan it’s a matter of Americas survival.)
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To: karpov

Hire according to the constitution, by merit alone and you may be defacto guilty of racism or sexism if you end up with a lot of white guys. If they can convict you on the basis of your hires you’re gonna have to deal in some affirmative action types.


13 posted on 08/14/2024 4:58:06 AM PDT by TalBlack (I We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: Uncle Miltie

Special treatment is NOT equal treatment.


14 posted on 08/14/2024 5:05:35 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: karpov

Because it’s all about skin color and sex and filling quotas, not skill, ability, integrity, or work ethic.

MLK’s dream crashed and burned a long time ago.


15 posted on 08/14/2024 5:07:39 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus”)
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To: Uncle Miltie

Very succinct.


16 posted on 08/14/2024 5:07:53 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus”)
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To: Uncle Miltie

That guy’s an idiot, the problem is right in the name.


17 posted on 08/14/2024 5:08:24 AM PDT by Samurai_Jack (This is not about hypocrisy, this is about hierarchy!)
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To: karpov

Well, Kamala Harris wants “a future unburdened by the past”.

That has enormous ramifications:

Becoming unburdened by “past” descrimination kills the justification for affirmative action.

No more guilt for the Holocaust, so radical Muslims and other anti-Semites can call for renewed genocide of Jewish populations.

No more guilt for the ugly side of US history, like: genocide and dispossession of Native Americans; slavery; Jim Crow; segregation and separate but unequal facilities and education; mass incarceration of blacks for drug crimes; imperial expansion; hegemonic domination of much of the world; wars in the East and Middle East; polluting industries that poisoned the environment and created glowbile warming; giant corporations killing local economies/creating poverty; etc, etc.

So Kamala brings the gift of Joy with zero guilt, zero responsibility — we can all go buck wild. She is too stupid to notice that this evaporates the entire program of the Democrat Party.


18 posted on 08/14/2024 7:22:45 AM PDT by Chewbarkah
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To: Adder

1992 Hopwood v. Texas delt with the Univ. of TX granting admission into the Law Dept. lower scoring minorities over white students.


19 posted on 08/14/2024 7:55:03 AM PDT by bgill
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To: karpov

The 14th Amendment and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 were adopted to protect the rights of black people. So if you go by “original intent,” non-black people are not entitled to benefit from their protections.


20 posted on 08/14/2024 10:40:49 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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