Posted on 07/01/2011 9:48:42 AM PDT by Main Street
Edited on 07/01/2011 10:39:14 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
DETROIT (AP) - A federal appeals court has struck down Michigan's ban on the consideration of race and gender when enrolling students at public colleges and universities.
In a 2-1 decision Friday, the court said Michigan's Proposal 2 is unconstitutional because it burdens minorities. It was approved by voters in 2006.
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Racism alive and well. Without these racist programs where would Obuttface, The Moocher, and her rats be?
Interesting. That was with O’Connor still on the court; Kennedy dissented. That case would likely have a different result today.
Seeing as how liberals decry the evils of Institutional Racism, I’m certain they will oppose this decision.
Time to cut off taxpayer funding of colleges and universities. If they have to start paying their own way, the only color they’ll care about is green.
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yes yes yes!!!
...along with a bunch of other things, that the government has NO right to give our money to.
if a private bank, feels a student is a good risk for a loan, that’s their business. but it is fundamentally wrong to give taxpayer money to blacks and hispanics, and not whites and asians.
(aside from the constitution not making the Government a loan or grant office in the first place...)
The U.S. has already been around the block on this. Affirmative action was a well-meaning, ill-conceived program. Conclusion: academic achievement should be the sole criterion for admission and advancement. Make sure the educational system is good from the earliest grades to give all equal opportunity to achieve, but don’t pretend they’ve achieved when they have not.
That’s why we need an affirmative action case to go to the Supreme Court soon. Great chance to kill affirmative action.
Sooo, instead of may the best person win, it is now the law of the land that if you are a shiftless lazy amish lad wearing your pants to your knees and your dreadlocks in place and you put forth little effort to better yourself in high school, you will get extra special bonus admittance to colege, jobs, etc?
Near time for that little revolution yet?
And Sandra Day O’conner says itis wrong to criticiize judges, many ought be in prison or worse.
From the decision:
“Hunter and Seattle thus expounded the rule that an enactment deprives minority groups of equal protection of the laws when it: (1) has a racial focus, targeting a goal or program that “inures primarily to the benefit of the minority”; and (2) works a reallocation of political power or reordering of the decisionmaking process that places “special burdens” on a minority group’s ability to achieve its goals through that process.”
http://www.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf/11a0174p-06.pdf
Apparently, any reward of a minority group is legal, and refusing to give special treatment is banned because equal protection is unequal.
Further, any election that results in a minority group losing power is an unconstitutional election.
WOW!
So Obama cannot be removed from office unless the opponent is black, since the election of a white to replace a black would “work a reallocation of political power or reordering of the decisionmaking process that places “special burdens” on a minority group’s ability to achieve its goals through that process.”
Guess Cain is our only hope to defeat Obama, since it would be illegal to frustrate black voters by allowing a white man or woman to replace him.
Alice in Wonderland: equal treatment is illegal because equal protection under the law requires unequal treatment.
Yeah discrimination is fine when you are discriminating in a way that is favorable to liberal goals. It is too bad the constitution doesn’t go further in banning ‘bills of attainder’ and similiar types of special protections for special groups.
And, I recall that even that story had an unhappy ending.
I think you have it down very well.
“equal treatment is illegal because equal protection under the law requires unequal treatment.”
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ouch. that hurts my head, just to read!
Insanity. We successfully defended such a law in CA.
So Obama cannot be removed from office unless the opponent is black, since the election of a white to replace a black would “work a reallocation of political power or reordering of the decisionmaking process that places “special burdens” on a minority group’s ability to achieve its goals through that process.”
Guess Cain is our only hope to defeat Obama, since it would be illegal to frustrate black voters by allowing a white man or woman to replace him....
Representative Allen West would be even better.
The Bizarro District Court of Appeals. Up is down.The only cure for discrimination is discrimination.
That’s a good question because the implications of the court’s statement are very racist. “It burdens minorities..... because they can’t compete in a fair admissions process.”
The students she trains who she believes are the best educated and talented are from Asia and India. Their level of knowledge is far above all the other students.
“I think Kafka wrote an outline for this story.”
Or maybe the Monty Python crew...
anyone know how much the voters passed this by?
In Leftyland, “Unequal” is the new “equal”.
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