The Discerning Texan
All that is necessary for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing.
-- Edmund Burke
Thursday, June 28, 2007

Supreme Justices matter: Court throws out Race-only Preferences for Schools

It has been 43 years since the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and the subsequent advent of "Affirmative Action"--which in the mind of Libertarians is little more than "a wink and a nod" to ignore the provisions of the 14th and 15th Amendments:
XIV: All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

XV: The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
To deny the right of ANY citizen--including Anglos or other "non-protected" races--the right to attend a school, based only on their race is a clear violation of our Constitution. It is as simple as that. Finally--thanks to President Bush--we have a court that has overridden the "progressive" views of previous "activist" courts, for whom the law of the land often seems but a mere inconvenience towards their vision of a judicial oligarcy. Today Chief Justice put it best in the majority opinion:
The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.
It does not take a rocket scientist to understand the truth of this. After 43+ years, the United States is finally on its way to being a truly color-blind society. It's about time.

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