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The Supreme Court in a 6-3 decision struck down the last vestige of systemic racism in America by ruling that the policy of racial discrimination in education and other areas was unlawful.
“Eliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it,” the ruling in Students for Fair Admissions v Harvard states. While that should have been simple enough, the use of the fight against systemic racism in racial segregation to create a new comprehensive form of racial discrimination has been extremely hard to kill. Racial discrimination was reborn cloaked in rhetoric about diversity and inclusion on campuses that have brought back segregated dorms and graduation ceremonies even while claiming that they have to racially discriminate for diversity’s sake.
The majority views reflect a Supreme Court that has seen affirmative action move from a temporary remedy to a permanent racial institution with no end in sight and one that has become central to a new racial system.
Is affirmative action actually dead?
The Students for Fair Admissions v Harvard decision provides seemingly narrow criteria in which it can still be practiced and it is expected to roll back the more blatant examples of it. But the whole point of Students for Fair Admissions v Harvard was how systemic racism of this kind can be disguised and dressed up.
The Students for Fair Admissions v Harvard still allows universities to get racial information from students and to have students make racial appeals in their admissions. Universities will go on covertly calculating racial mixes and using statistical correlations to achieve the same result.
Affirmative action will go further underground and that’s a good thing. Systemic racism an discrimination should be an illicit matter. If it is practiced, it should go into the darkness and the perpetrators should be ashamed of it.
A final cautionary note before the celebrations start.
The conservative Supreme Court remains fragile. If Biden holds on to the White House, it will become very shaky. And expect the Biden DOJ to refuse to meaningfully enforce the Supreme Court ruling.
We will see a clash between a Supreme Court ruling and the DOJ in further cases before too long.
TongJanDoi says
SCOTUS No. 20–1199 – STUDENTS FOR FAIR ADMISSIONS, INC. v. PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT
At best a pyrrhic and deceptively hollow victory – one that will spawn unless future litigation instead of ending the issue affirmatively and in all of its forms, without qualification, once and for all!:
Roberts’ “qualification” that swallows the entire opinion and its holding:
“Roberts concluded his opinion by saying that while colleges can consider an applicant’s “discussion of how race affected his or her life, be it through discrimination, inspiration, or otherwise … universities may not simply establish through application essays or other means the regime we hold unlawful today.”
If colleges “can consider” race – in whatever form and clothed in any guise – they will “consider” it…
Leaving the door open – even and inch – as the Court has done here – will allow “affirmative action” to go forward unscathed as the devious, ingenious and notoriously creative universities and their crafty lawyers – and others – devise ways to drive a truck through it!
Jeff Bargholz says
Roberts contradicted himself. You can’t consider race but prevent enrollment through application essays at the same time. What an incompetrent jackass.
Roberts’s opinion doesn’t overrule all the other opinions that have abolished Affirmative Action. It isn’t supposed to. The opinions of the justices are just their explanation for their votes. The majority vote was to overturn Affirmative Action and that’s supposed to be the end of ithe matter.
Daniel Greenfield says
It’s not an ideal decision, but it’s a major step forward in pushing affirmative action into the shadows
And that makes it much easier to fight legally.
Racial discrimination is hard to eliminate but the machinery of civil rights law will now be on the side of the victims
Jeff Bargholz says
6 to 3? I thought Ketanji Doesnt-Know-What_A-Woman-Is Jackass abstained? The reports I’ve heard claim it was 6 to 2 vote. It doesn’t take a crystal ball to know who the 2 Dirtbagocrat operatives are.
You’re 100% right that colleges and universities will sleaze their way around this ruling, just like they did in CA. That’s the first thing that entered my mind when I heard about the ruling. What did CA Do? Use “life experiences” or some such bullshit as a criterion for admissions? Naturally, the only people who supposedly meet those meaningless criteria are black, even though far more whites meet the same criteria, if for no other reason that there are far more whites in America.
It’s also based on the reverse reality claim that blacks have it harder than other races and are oppressed, when they’re actually the most privileged and pampered demographic in American history. Black skin privilege is very real and ubiquitous in society and government.
Did the Court strike down Affirmative (Negative) Action in its entirety? Your article suggests it did but none of the reports I’ve seen on the TV news have mentioned the subject. I hope it was struck down in its evil entirety. If the court didn’t, it’s decision is a joke because there are far more affirmative Action employees and contractors than students and they affect our lives (usually adversely) much more than students do. Sure, all the pernicious “woke” insanity originates in the universities but that mostly comes from the professors, and Affirmative Action employees and contractors affect our livelihoods and lives on a daily basis, more often than not adversely. Imagine being beaten to death by incompetent cops hired through Affirmative Action or driving across a bridge constructed by an incompetent Affirmative Action contractor.
Still, this is definitely a step in the right direction. The direction of the Constitution, good will and sanity.
Kasandra says
It’s a damned shame that it took the U.S. Supreme Court over fifty years to decide that institutions may not discriminate on the basis of race. Also, I just want to point out that nearly everything Biden had to say about affirmative discrimination and the Court’s opinion was untrue. But you already knew that.
GRob says
From: “Unpopular, Polarizing, and Ineffective, Affirmative action’s days may finally be numbered” by Jason Riley:
In California, canceling affirmative action policies:
a) resulted in more minorities getting into college,
b) resulted in more minorities graduating from college, and
c) resulted in more minorities graduating with degrees in the more difficult fields of science, technology, math, and engineering.
“the number of UC black and Hispanic freshmen who went on to graduate in four years rose 55 percent; the number graduating with degrees in the more difficult fields of science, technology, math, and engineering rose by 51 percent; and the number who graduated with GPAs of 3.5 or higher rose by 63 percent. Such figures indicate that, on balance, racial double standards have served as a lag rather than a boon for minorities.”
Jeff Bargholz says
That’s what happens when a greater number of more qualified students are admitted and less unqualified ones are.
RS says
Racism and anti-semetism are always used by the progressive left to divide people and create wars.
Jeff Bargholz says
Yes, the Dirtbagocrat left has replaced class warfare with identity politics.