Posted on 02/03/2022 4:57:50 AM PST by Kaslin
Americans are fed up with racial preferences.
More than three-quarters of Americans believe resident Joe Biden should consider "all possible nominees" to succeed retiring Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, rather than only Black women, according to a new poll.
Likewise, nearly three-quarters of Americans, including a majority of Hispanic and Black people, oppose affirmative action. They don't want Black and Hispanic college applicants favored over other applicants who have higher test scores and grades, according to Pew Research.
A group of Asian victims of Harvard's affirmative action are suing, represented by the nonprofit Students for Fair Admissions. The Supreme Court announced last week it will take the case.
That announcement has provoked woke outrage and predictions about the return of Jim Crow. Georgetown University law professor Paul Butler warns the Court will "take this country back to the time where straight White men ruled everything." There isn't a shred of truth to that warning.
Court papers document how Harvard rigs the admissions system to disqualify as many Asian applicants as possible. It systematically gives Asian teens low "personal" scores for subjective qualities such as courage and personality in an attempt to offset their higher scores on standardized tests.
A black student with a Preliminary SAT score above 1100 might get invited to apply to Harvard, but a white student from the same area of the country would have to get a score above 1310; an Asian girl would need at least 1350, and an Asian boy at least 1380. Unfair? You bet.
It's a repeat of what Harvard did in the 1930s to keep Jews out, according to Kenneth L. Marcus, assistant secretary for civil rights in the Trump administration's Education Department. "Just as Harvard in the 1930s thought that Jewish students lacked the character to make them good Harvard men, so today they often view Asian students as lacking the appropriate character," Marcus said.
The Supreme Court never intended affirmative action to be permanent. In 2003, when it upheld the University of Michigan Law Schools' use of race to promote diversity, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor wrote, "The Court expects that 25 years from now, the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary."
Fast forward, and the evidence is clear that affirmative action failed and should be replaced by programs that give a leg up to the poor, regardless of their skin color.
When the University of California tried affirmative action, Black and Hispanic students admitted with low scores floundered and graduated at far lower rates than non-affirmative action students.
In 1996, California voters -- usually left-leaning -- banned affirmative action. Afterward, the University of California showed how to promote economic mobility without using race, explains UCLA law professor Richard Sanders. UC recruited at inner city high schools and counseled students on the nuts and bolts of applying to college. UC targeted teens determined to study hard and succeed, never mind their skin color.
Harvard could do the same. Only 4.5% of students admitted to Harvard come from households with incomes in the bottom fifth of the nation. Many Black students admitted are children of academics and professionals. Yet they're pushed ahead of Asian applicants whose parents are first-generation unskilled workers.
Diversity the way Harvard and many other universities practice it is a scam. In reality, it gives privilege to Black students.
Take Biden's two leading candidates for the Supreme Court: federal Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson and California Judge Leondra Kruger, both Harvard College graduates, Jackson's father is a lawyer; Kruger is the daughter of two physicians. Both women are cookie-cutter duplicates of the court's current makeup -- Ivy Leaguers who once clerked for the Court.
For real diversity and fairness, Biden should consider a broad field, including Chief Judge Sri Srinivasan of the District Columbia Court of Appeals, who has not only a law degree but also a business degree. That's something none of the current justices has, though business cases dominate the Court's docket.
It's time for America to end affirmative action. It's a polite euphemism for an ugly process -- reverse discrimination. It hasn't made the U.S. economically fairer, and another 25 years won't change the results.
I do not mean this for me BUT when dems used to run the plantations they used to think that they had to care for the blacks. They think the same today. Just look at the inner cities that they have “taken care of” for decades. Dems still have to “care for” the blacks. And the blacks respond by voting them every time and then they are SURPRISED when nothing changes. My father used to say, “how dumb can you be”?I could answer that.
The rats know once you giveth you cannot taketh away. An addicted society s their best customer
Start with the TV commercials.
Ms Betsy has always been a bit of an odd-duck.
She often writes some great policy stuff. But why can’t she, and others of The Left, never connect the dots?
They say these things that we all know to be true, and yet, they still vote Dem/Prog and pursue the agenda of The Left.
I believe the supreme court needs to come out strong against affirmative action. Race shouldn’t be allowed to be considered AT ALL, under any circumstances, period.
Affirmative action has just made me confident in staying away from black professionals as it is possible they are not competent in the profession to which they represent. The most sterling example was the black that took the place of Alan Bakke...compare the professional lives of both of those men and one will see there is no comparison with ethics or competency.
Biden has promised to pick a black woman for the Supreme Court. Black women are about 6% of the population—but what percentage of lawyers are black women? Probably less than six percent.
Three words that will freak out President Biden: Janice Rogers Brown.
Which is totally unfair to black professionals who got where they are on their own efforts and ability. Sad situation.
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