As far as I’ve been able to gather, there is no way to repeal affirmative action without totally repealing the Civil Rights Act. Legal scholars have argued this for decades, and having looked into it, it’s the conclusion I came to.
The Supreme Court is not going to throw out the Civil Rights Act, so it seems to me that all of this talk about Affirmative Action is just a total waste of time.
But it’s not totally a waste of time, because at least we’re getting a bunch of news articles about how, if you ended affirmative action, there would be no brown people in universities.
If the U.S. Supreme Court bans the consideration of race in college admissions, enrollment of minority groups at selective colleges will likely stall or decline – even if the schools give more weight to factors such as class, a new study found.
The conservative-leaning court will issue rulings this spring in cases questioning the legality of race-conscious admissions at Harvard and the University of North Carolina.
Students for Fair Admissions, the group suing Harvard and UNC, argues that class-conscious admissions would allow schools to create a diverse student body and boost disadvantaged students without focusing on race.
But a study released on Tuesday by Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce found that admissions practices that consider class but not race would still leave selective colleges without the representation of Black, Hispanic, Indigenous and Pacific Islander students seen in U.S. high schools.
“Niggers are remarkably stupid,” the authors of the paper explained. “If niggers are forced to compete with the Aryan race, they always fail.”
(I’m just kidding, they didn’t say that. But that is the vibe here, no? How else are you supposed to read that?)
There is a colored woman on Twitter claiming that colored people will succeed without Affirmative Action:
The funny thing about bigoted claims like this? You’re seeing more diversity at prestigious institutions because without Jim Crow barriers BIPOC people are going to outperform legacy applicants. They expect bias so they do more than rely on one extracurricular & Daddy’s name https://t.co/yy5KXIh5ea
— Mikki Kendall (@Karnythia) March 27, 2023
The message that we had to work twice as hard to get half as far really sunk in. But it is easier to blame affirmative action than to admit whiteness isn’t enough to succeed any more
— Mikki Kendall (@Karnythia) March 27, 2023
Either she is saying that only because she knows AA will not be thrown out, or she is actually very low IQ. Whichever is the case, it goes to prove the point.
But hey – maybe that would happen? Maybe if you removed AA, blacks would really start competing hard, and actually earn their spots? It’s possible. I mean, it’s probably not possible if you consider test scores, because that seems like a hard wall for the blacks, but maybe we can pressure them into developing higher IQs?
We should at least try to prove this woman’s theory.