USSC rules against affirmative action in college admissions

14th Amendment - Harvard and UNC must stop using race as part of their criteria

Eliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it. Accordingly, the Court has held that the Equal Protection Clause applies “without regard to any differences of race, of color, or of nationality”— it is “universal in [its] application.” Yick Wo v. Hopkins, 118 U. S. 356, 369. For “[t]he guarantee of equal protection cannot mean one thing when applied to one individual and something else when applied to a person of another color.” Regents of Univ. of Cal. v. Bakke, 438 U. S. 265, 289–290.

Let's be clear here folks. This ruling is just the beginning here. These colleges will still try to get around the ruling by being more stealthy and clever about how they use race. What this ruling does is take away their legal excuse for what they are wanting to do. Meaning they can no longer legally justify what they have been openly doing so they will need to hide it.

The next step will be the lawsuits that come from those who will be negatively affected by these policies (that will not just go away). The Asian with the perfect placement scores and perfect GPA who will still be passed over for a marginal Black or Hispanic candidate will now have legal grounds to sue. This becomes the next battle ground of this issue.

I also suspect that somewhere along the lines that Americans will want schools in general to go back to some sort of meritocracy. Up until the last 5 years or so the idea of not handing out grades or not using college admission testing for admission decisions would have not even been considered. But that is exactly where we are at right now. I guess if we do not hand out legitimate grades or have students across the country all take the same test to determine what they have learned, then how can a college consider merit?

That seems to be the goal with liberal teachers and liberal professors. They can tell us who deserves and doesn't deserve Ivy league or MIT or any other prestigious university. They can tell us who deserves college admission at all and who should just go get a job. At best, this still includes the actual brightest and best, but in reality it will probably be more about who the students are and where they stand on various political and social issues. There is no other reason to eliminate merit based graduations and merit based college admissions.

I simply do not understand the almost excessive compulsive obsession with division from liberals. They are constantly trying to create and then fix problems with race, gender, and whatever the next round of oppressed people are. They mess everything up (which they take no blame for) but then want credit when they come up with a plan to fix things that never really does fix anything.