SCOTUS affirms the 14th Amendment, upholds Michigan affirmation action ban

It's nice to know our Supreme Court still believes the Constitution is constitutional. Sometimes it's hard to tell if our Founding Fathers will survive the progressive onslaught.

The 14th Amendment guarantees "equal protection" to all. Affirmative action elevates one race above all others; clearly making them "unequal." The citizens of Michigan voted to abolish race-based preferences in college admissions. Liberals went berzerk. Their brand of discrimination postulates that minority applicants are unable to compete on a level playing field.

We fought the Civil War partly because one racial group was deliberately held back regardless of their individual accomplishments.

Affirmative action advances that race at the expense of other, more qualified contenders.

Both policies are equally odious.

Discrimination today is not the answer to past episodes of racism. Equality means judging everyone on the content of their character, not the color of their skin. Regardless of the color of their skin.

What amazes me is that the decision wasn't unanimous.

Justices Ginsburg and Sotomayor dissented. Madam Justice Wise Latina opined that minorities would be "oppressed" if they weren't given preferential treatment. Presumably because she believes they can't compete on the merits. I'd like to ask her, are minority college applicants truly less intelligent? Or merely lazier? Either assumption is insulting on its face. Yet affirmative action cannot survive without making them.

Fortunately the actual scholars on the Court determined that the word "equal" really is color blind.

Posted at 22:03 by Chris Wysocki   [/news]   Comments | Perm Link |
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