CNN: ‘Supreme Court Guts Affirmative Action in College Admissions’

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“The Supreme Court ruled colleges and universities can no longer take race into consideration as a specific basis in admissions — a landmark decision that overturns long-standing precedent that has benefited Black and Latino students in higher education.

Chief Justice John Roberts, who wrote the opinion for the conservative majority, said Harvard and University of North Carolina admissions programs violated the Equal Protection Clause because they failed to offer “measurable” objectives to justify the use of race.

The opinion claims the court was not expressly overturning prior cases authorizing race-based affirmative action, and suggested that how race has affected an applicant’s life can still be part of how their application is considered. Liberal justices slammed the opinion in their dissent, saying the decision will make it practically impossible for colleges and universities to take race into account.”

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“CNN senior Supreme Court analyst Joan Biskupic was in the room as the highest court in the land delivered their landmark decision on affirmative action. Biskupic details the atmosphere of the courtroom.”

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If the Equal Protection Clause, equality, equal justice, equal rights, if every American regardless of racial, ethnic, gender, has the same individual rights and responsibilities as everyone else, then affirmative action had to be thrown out, because it violates all of those great, American, liberal values, that most Americans believe in, but too many of take for granted.

I understand the importance of building a society where everyone can succeed. Not only do I understand that, but I actually believe in that as a Liberal. (Meaning real Liberal) But you don’t create that free society for everybody by denying people access in America, like with education, simply because too many members of their race or ethnicity, are already doing well in America.

What a lot of supporters of so-called affirmative action laws have never understood, is that affirmative action just doesn’t hurt European-Americans, especially European-American men, (which affirmative action supporters don’t seem to have a problem with) but it hurts Asian-Americans as well, it hurts Latino-Americans who are primarily of Spanish or other European descent, it hurts Middle Eastern-Americans, it hurts Jewish-Americans. Why? Because these folks are already doing well in America and aren’t from the right racial or ethnic background, according to supporters of affirmative action.

Again, if you want that free society where everyone can make it in America, you don’t do that penalizing Americans who are already doing well, especially because of their race, ethnicity, or gender. But instead create a society where everyone has a quality opportunity, regardless of where they’re from, the income level of their parents, or their race, ethnicity, or gender.

To create that free society for every American,  that gets to things like education where every American is entitled to a quality education, regardless of their race, ethnicity, or gender, again the income level of their parents.

As well as empowering low-skilled, low-income adults, who were denied access to a good education growing, either because of mistakes that they made growing up, or mistakes that their parents made, or the fact that they came from a low-income community and empower them to finish and further their education, so they can make it in America as well.

You don’t create that American free society by saying that since these groups were discriminated in the past and in African-Americans, case were kidnapped and forced to come to America as slaves, what we’re going to do now to try to correct that, is punish Americans who are already doing well, including Asian-Americans, but Spanish-Latinos, Middle Eastern-Americans, and Jewish-Americans, so more African-Americans can get a good education and a good job, even if they’re not academically and financially ready to do well in college.