The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Small Business Administration (SBA) have a problem. The Government can offer preferred contracting to minority groups, but it must demonstrate a compelling interest.
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Affirmative Action Is Not About a Return to Segregation
It is a shame young people no longer read. Tweets and such just do not convey the depth of the argument decided by the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) last week. Justice Thomas delivered a poignant and powerful decision overturning affirmative action.
No … New Hampshire Did NOT End “Affirmative Action” In “Higher Education” “Years Ago”
The Sun-King responded to the U.S. Supreme Court decision declaring that discriminating based on race in college admissions is unconstitutional by claiming that the Supreme Court was following “our lead.” What a modest guy:
Time To End Affirmative Action Everywhere
It is finally time to live what we preach and treat everyone equally. We claim that we do not want racism in any form, yet we have systems that give preferential treatment to specific genders or races.
Breaking: SCOTUS Strikes Down Affirmative Action Admission Policies
The US Supreme Court has ruled that college admissions policies based on race are a no-go. The cases involving Harvard and the University of North Carolina, Harvard, for under-enrolling qualified Asian applicants while UNC was accused of failing to achieve diversity by other means.
Vivek Ramaswamy Presidential Campaign 2/22/23: Question: Affirmative Actions and applying Civil Rights universally. Dealing with China?
E Pluribus Unum; one of our Nation’s mottos meaning “Out of Many, One”. We started out as a nation of immigrants from various lands, ethnicities, and social norms – the “Many”. As has been stated over our history by multitudes of people stated bazillion times, our nation is unlike any other in that we were … Read more
Colorblindness Is the Answer. It Must Therefore Be Their Enemy
Coleman Hughs writes an excellent piece at The Free Press that addresses the matter of color blindness. Not the medical condition but the social, cultural, and political one.
What Government Should Learn from Sports, Part 2
A recent guest on Tucker Carlson’s show asked a fascinating question: Why don’t we have affirmative action in the NBA, or the NFL, or the NHL, or MLB, or other professional sports leagues?
Data Point – “For every 100 girls / women…”
It has now been a couple of decades that girls have been “boosted” in all areas of life. Yes, there were problems, especially in schools and athletics (e.g., Title IX, which Progressives are now trying to evicerate via their latest pet project, “Transgenderism” in which biological boys are being applauded in their Transjacking of girls … Read more
Some observations on affirmative action…
Once again during this Presidential season, we see the three main weapons of Progressivism on display: gender, class, and race. Take those three away, and they don’t have much, do they? Anyways, the last of those three is under attack in the Supreme Court as the University of Texas use of affirmative action in admissions and whether it still fulfills a “compelling” reason for the State to force “color-blindness” or continue skin color discrimination. That is the question – in the quest for a color-blind nation, at what time do we really start to do as we preach? In my lifetime (and the grey hairs are becoming more prevalent such that they are the majority color now), much wrong has been seen, many many of those wrongs have been righted, and attitudes have been changed for the better. Yes, there is still more to be done, but I ask, in a tangental fashion: other than the usual race baiting suspects (e.g., the Al Sharptons and David Dukes of the world), are we close to closing down affirmative action? Or are we doomed forever to have the spector of race overhang much of society (e.g., when does color-blindness actually disappear – when those that profit from race-baiting can no longer do so?)? When do we really go more than skin-deep?
Anyways, here are some thoughts from Roger Clegg at The Corner (reformated) listing why affirmative action (with around 60 years of having affirmative action):
How, then, can they possibly be “compelling” (which is what the law requires them to be), especially when they must be weighed against the many and undeniable costs of racial discrimination:
Am betting that the Teachers Unions ain’t liking this all that much!
From California: …The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a legal challenge filed against Proposition 209, the 1996 initiative approved by California voters, which argued that the law discriminates against minority students in admissions to California universities. The three-judge panel said that the court was bound by a 1997 9th Circuit ruling that upheld … Read more