Posted on 07/13/2023 5:01:00 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The end of affirmative action was inevitable. The only surprise was that such intentions gone terribly wrong lasted so long.
First, supporters of racial preferences always pushed back the goal posts for the program’s success. Was institutionalized reverse bias to last 20 years, 60 years, or ad infinitum? Parity became defined as an absolute equality of result. If “equity” was not obtained, then only institutionalized “racism” explained disparities. And only reverse racism was deemed the cure.
Second, affirmative action was imposed on the back end in adult hiring and college admissions. However, to achieve parity, remediation early at the K-12 school level would have been the only solution. Yet such intervention was made impossible by teachers’ unions, the rise of identity politics and government entitlements. All were opposed to school choice, self-help programs, critiques of cultural impediments, or restrictions on those blanket entitlements,
Third, class, the true barometer of privilege, was rendered meaningless. Surrealism followed. The truly privileged Barack and Michelle Obama and Meghan Markel lectured the country on its unfairness—as if they had it far rougher than the impoverished “deplorables” of East Palestine, Ohio.
Fourth, affirmative action supporters could never square the circle of proving that racial prejudices didn’t violate the spirt of the Declaration of Independence and the text of the Constitution. What they were left with was the lame argument that because long ago the 90% white majority had violated their own foundational documents, then such past bad unconstitutional bias could legitimately be rectified by present-day “good” unconstitutional bias.
Fifth, supporters never adequately explained why the sins of prior generations fell on their descendants who grew up in the post-Civil Rights era. Nor could they account for why those who had never experienced institutionalized racism, much less Jim Crow apartheid or slavery, were to be compensated collectively
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Hah, it ain’t dead at all.
What is going to happen is complete defiance of the decision as it goes to black and Hispanic admissions, which aren’t going to decline at at all, and use of the decision as an excuse to curtail legacy, athletic and “leadership” admissions of (overwhelmingly) whites in favor of a greater quota of “academic merit” admissions of (mostly) Asians.
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Tiger Woods is 1/8th black.
https://www.espn.com/gen/s/2002/0521/1385355.html#:~:text=Woods%20said%20nothing%20to%20clarify,and%20one%2Deighth%20Native%20American.
“For the record, he is one-quarter Thai, one-quarter Chinese, one-quarter Caucasian, one-eighth African-American and one-eighth Native American. But his mother, Tida, says Tiger “is more Asian.” By way of explanation, she added, “A mother raises her son, and he had an Asian mother.”
First Affirmative Action law.
1961, JFK.
“For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die.”
Ted Kennedy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dream_Shall_Never_Die
The upside is that the failure of affirmative action just confirmed that racism is not only wrong, but it’s a formula for failure, regardless of how it’s wrapped and marketed.
“Woods was born on December 30, 1975, in Cypress, California, to Earl and Kultida “Tida” Woods. He is their only child, though he has two half-brothers and a half-sister from his father’s first marriage. Earl was a retired U.S. Army officer and Vietnam War veteran; he was born to African-American parents and was also said to have had European, Native American, and possibly Chinese ancestry.”
“Woods grew up in Orange County, California. He was a child prodigy who was introduced to golf before the age of two by his athletic father Earl Woods. Earl was a single-digit handicap amateur golfer who also was one of the earliest African-American college baseball players at Kansas State University. Woods told reporters he had wanted to be a baseball player like his father but abandoned that goal after tearing his rotator cuff. His father was a member of the military and had playing privileges at the Navy golf course beside the Joint Forces Training Base in Los Alamitos, which allowed Tiger to play there. Tiger also played at the par 3 Heartwell golf course in Long Beach, as well as some of the municipals in Long Beach.”
“He was nicknamed Tiger in honor of his father’s friend, South Vietnamese Colonel Vuong Dang Phong, who had also been known as Tiger.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_Woods
Wikipedia mentions the ESPN statement.
I was going to first post that I have never been able to pin down if Tiger was 1/8th or 1/4 black, but then I saw that ESPN article and went with it.
Decades ago Time and Newsweek used different percentages, one went with 1/8 and the other went with 1/4.
Race, Class, Gender are HUGE money-makers.
It has been on life support in the Courts for decades, because it so obviously violates equal protection under the law.
This clear Supreme Court decision is a death blow. But, as with many monsters, it will take considerable time for Affirmative Action to die. There will have to be lawsuits against racial prejudice in hiring. All the mechanism is there, set up to enforce Affirmative Action.
I know all about Tiger. I just wonder why he is never referred to as Thai.
Can you say, “PUSHBACK?” I am seeing a glimmer of hope and signs that the entire racist DEI BLM thing has worn its welcome thin and people on both sides of thee aisle has had enough.
That's as stupid a designation as "african-american." Hyphenated labels such as those indicate the person is neither "African" or "American." Such an one is either African or American. Whichever they might be, they're definitely idiots.
Made that argument to my very liberal DIL a few years back. Asked her if AA had worked over the last 50 years then do we really need it anymore. It served its purpose. But if it hasn’t worked then shouldn’t 50 years and almost 2 generations be enough to prove it’s a failed experiment.
She just had a deer in the headlights look and changed the subject.
"Envy used to be just a human failing, but today it is a major industry. Politicians, journalists, and academics are all part of that industry, which some call 'social justice'" - Thomas Sowell
“At one time AA made sense.”
Sorry. I don’t see it.
Way too early to make that claim.
The public doesn't know Barack Obama's father is, fake birth certificate and all.
“At one time AA made sense. But at most it should have only been in place for one generation, no more.”
I would argue the opposite—that people excel only when they must do so.
Blacks fighting to overcome real hardship with a solid work ethic would have made them the best they could be.
AA just made everybody else doubt that the black sitting next to them had earned the right to be there.
It also created a “culture of entitlement” that is the exact opposite of what was needed.
I think there was another obvious but undiscussed problem with the outcomes that won’t be discussed; the “preferred minorities” often ended up struggling in a tier one (or more) up from where their merits could get them. Imagine token 1 has an unearned masters degree, and exceptions are made to clear the way for a slot normally reserved for someone with a doctorate; token 2 has an unearned bachelors degree, and is pushed into a position normally requiring a masters degree, and token 3 with an unearned associates degree is shoehorned into a slot normally held by someone with a bachelors degree. All three may laugh all the way to the bank, but they also are hopelessly lost at their jobs - and the employer still has to pay competent workers to do the real work. Attempts by employers to rectify this are met with lawsuits, as all three tokens - officially, on paper - are “qualified” (though the degrees/certificates are meaningless wishful thinking).
Nobody wins; employers accept the “reparations tax” and keep the tokens on the payroll where they can do the least damage, and the illusion of assimilation and economic progress is maintained.
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