Breaking: SCOTUS ends Affirmative Action in university race-based admissions

[lantern2814]

Asians weren't being discriminated against.

Asians are six percent of the American population, but they were 25.9 percent of the students entering Harvard in 2021. That is a full ten percentage points more than African Americans (15.9%) and more than double the percentage of both Hispanics (12.5%) and Native Americans (11%). In fact, there were more Asians admitted into Harvard than Hispanics and Native Americans combined.

Admissions Statistics, A Brief Profile of the Admitted Class of 2025, Harvard welcomes students from across the country and all over, Admissions Statistics

Still mad that those Asians are all smarter than you? Maybe you hood rats should take some lessons from the Asians and stop physically assaulting them. Then maybe you’d learn something.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

The racist right wing trolls here at usmb have had a very bad year, which is only going to get worse. This is the kind of story they so desperately have to cling to for any semblance of relevance.

Keep in mind this decision was specifically aimed at Harvard, and UNC. College admission boards for the most part, will continue their current admission policies as they are now.

dumb whites and dumb peoples of color will not benefit from the ruling

 

[Nostra]

Really? King did not stop talking after August 28, 1963.

“We have waited for more than 340 years for our constitutional and God-given rights. The nations of Asia and Africa are moving with jetlike speed toward gaining political independence, but we still creep at horse-and buggy pace toward gaining a cup of coffee at a lunch counter. Perhaps it is easy for those who have never felt the stinging darts of segregation to say, ‘Wait.’ But when you have seen vicious mobs lynch your mothers and fathers at will and drown your sisters and brothers at whim; when you have seen hate-filled policemen curse, kick and even kill your black brothers and sisters; when you see the vast majority of your twenty million Negro brothers smothering in an airtight cage of poverty in the midst of an affluent society; when you suddenly find your tongue twisted and your speech stammering as you seek to explain to your six year-old daughter why she can’t go to the public amusement park that has just been advertised on television, and see tears welling up in her eyes when she is told that Funtown is closed to colored children, and see ominous clouds of inferiority beginning to form in her little mental sky, and see her beginning to distort her personality by developing an unconscious bitterness toward white people; when you have to concoct an answer for a five-year-old son who is asking: ‘Daddy, why do white people treat colored people so mean?’; when you take a cross-country drive and find it necessary to sleep night after night in the uncomfortable corners of your automobile because no motel will accept you; when you are humiliated day in and day out by nagging signs reading ‘white’ and ‘colored’; when your first name becomes ‘******,’ your middle name becomes ‘boy’ (however old you are) and your last name becomes ‘John,’ and your wife and mother are never given the respected title ‘Mrs.”; when you are harried by day and haunted by night by the fact that you are a Negro, living constantly at tiptoe stance, never quite knowing what to expect next, and are plagued with inner fears and outer resentments; when you are forever fighting a degenerating sense of ‘nobodiness’— then you will understand why we find it difficult to wait. There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into the abyss of despair.”
-Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., “Letter from A Birmingham Jail

Keep Dr. Kings name out your mouth.

Don’t see anything in there saying MLK supports discrimination, Simp.

 

[Cougarbear]

Actually it will.

“Striving for racial equity – a world where race is no longer a factor in the distribution of opportunity – is a matter of social justice. But moving toward racial equity can generate significant economic returns as well. When people face barriers to achieving their full potential, the loss of talent, creativity, energy, and productivity is a burden not only for those disadvantaged, but for communities, businesses, governments, and the economy as a whole. Initial research on the magnitude of this burden in the United States (U.S.), as highlighted in this brief, reveals impacts in the trillions of dollars in lost earnings, avoidable public expenditures, and lost economic output.”
-The Kellogg Foundation and Altarum Institute

"It will end up costing the U.S. economy as much as $1 trillion between now and 2028 for the nation to maintain its longstanding black-white racial wealth gap, according to a report released this month from the global consultancy firm McKinsey & Company. That will be roughly 4 percent of the United States GDP in 2028—just the conservative view, assuming that the wealth growth rates of African Americans will outpace white wealth growth at its current clip of 3 percent to .8 percent annually, said McKinsey. If the gap widens, however, with white wealth growing at a faster rate than black wealth instead, it could end up costing the U.S. $1.5 trillion or 6 percent of GDP according to the firm."

You can keep thinking this will solve the problems. But, it talks about the wrong stats. Communism won’t solve a thing.

 

[IM2]

Did someone say something about MLK?

“Few people consider the fact that in addition to being enslaved for two centuries, the Negro was during all those years robbed of the wages of his toil. No amount of gold could provide an adequate compensation for the exploitation and humiliation of the Negro in America down through the centuries. Not all the wealth of this affluent society could meet the bill. Yet, a price can be placed on unpaid wages. The ancient common law has always provided a remedy for the appropriation of the labor of one human being by another. This law should be made to apply for American Negroes. The payment should be in the form of a massive program by the Government of special compensatory measures which could be regarded as a settlement in accordance with the accepted practice of common law. Such measures would certainly be less expensive than any computation based on two centuries of unpaid wages and accumulated interest.”

“It is my great feeling that a massive program must be developed by the federal government to bring new hope into being. Among the many vital jobs to be done, the Nation must not only radically readjust its attitude toward the Negro and the compelling present, but must incorporate in its planning some compensatory consideration for the handicaps he has inherited from the past. It is impossible to create a formula for the future which does not take into account that our society has been doing something special against the Negro for hundreds of years.”

“America must seek its own way of atoning for the injustices she has inflicted on her Negro citizens [not for] atonement’s sake, . . .[but as a] way to bring the Negro standard to a realistic level. . . .The moral justification for special measures for Negroes is rooted in the robberies inherent in the institution of slavery.”

Harvard Latin American Law Review

harvardlalr.com

 

[IM2]

Don’t see anything in there saying MLK supports discrimination, Simp.

And AA did not discriminate, simp.

 

[IM2]

You can keep thinking this will solve the problems. But, it talks about the wrong stats. Communism won’t solve a thing.

White racial fascism damn sure isn't solving anything.

 

[dudmuck]

And AA did not discriminate, simp.

 

[skye]

Can't you see how ridiculous this is?

 

[Lisa558]

Asians weren't being discriminated against.

Asians are six percent of the American population, but they were 25.9 percent of the students entering Harvard in 2021. That is a full ten percentage points more than African Americans (15.9%) and more than double the percentage of both Hispanics (12.5%) and Native Americans (11%). In fact, there were more Asians admitted into Harvard than Hispanics and Native Americans combined.

Admissions Statistics, A Brief Profile of the Admitted Class of 2025, Harvard welcomes students from across the country and all over, Admissions Statistics

So you think the percentage of students by race should align with their percentage in the general population? That’s quotas - and using race as a factor, which has been ruled unconstitutional.

And you know why there are so many more Asians than blacks in Harvard? Because the Asians present as superior students! Duh. On average, their grades are much better and their SAT are much higher.

 

[Lisa558]

dumb whites and dumb peoples of color will not benefit from the ruling

But the smart whites and smart Asians will, and that’s fair.

 

[MarathonMike]

White racial fascism damn sure isn't solving anything.

Correct, that's why we got rid of Systemic Racism in America. Your welcome.

 

[Cougarbear]

White racial fascism damn sure isn't solving anything.

If it were happening it would be true. It’s not. You will just have to strap on your boots, pull your pants up and start earning your way like white people. The only thing holding you back is between your ears. Welcome to the melting pot and stop complaining and start working. The blacks I know here in our community doesn’t make excuses and they don’t want handouts. All you complainers want is everything given to you.

 

[Cougarbear]

White racial fascism damn sure isn't solving anything.

The way to end racial discrimination is to end racial discrimination.

 

[Cougarbear]

White racial fascism damn sure isn't solving anything.

Also, Blacks today as a whole are worse off financially than before affirmative action was voted in. Affirmative action has only helped rich affluent blacks and not the vast majority blacks. 71% of blacks that got into Harvard any Ivy League school were from wealthy affluent parents. Two parents still living together.
Clean up your own communities first and then complain against Asians. This ruling had nothing do with whites.

 

[MarathonMike]

The Obama's are professional race hustlers.

Yeah like Master Class Race hustlers.

 

[dblack]

The Supreme Court rules against racial discrimination.

But is that what really you want? Do you think government should be making these kinds of decisions for you? Should they really be able to suppress certain opinions?

It gets tiresome having to say this, but I know a lot of people will assume a racist, looking for elbow room. I'm not. I despise racism. But I despise totalitarian government more.

The government isn't there to tell us what to think. We're entitled to our biases, no matter how repugnant they might be, no matter how irrational, no matter how much they annoy the current regime. If you take a couple of steps back and squint, you might start to see how ludicrous this really is. And it's getting worse. More and more people are in favor of making political affiliation a protected class. What's next? Maybe we should have some kind of national opinion registry, so that we can track people who aren't doing it right.

 

[MarathonMike]

Asians weren't being discriminated against.

Asians are six percent of the American population, but they were 25.9 percent of the students entering Harvard in 2021. That is a full ten percentage points more than African Americans (15.9%) and more than double the percentage of both Hispanics (12.5%) and Native Americans (11%). In fact, there were more Asians admitted into Harvard than Hispanics and Native Americans combined.

Admissions Statistics, A Brief Profile of the Admitted Class of 2025, Harvard welcomes students from across the country and all over, Admissions Statistics

Yeah and? Asians as a population excel at academics, and Blacks as a population excel at football, basketball and track. And grass is green and ice is cold.

 

[dblack]

Are you really this ignorant or are you this racist?

Here is the rest of the story, as Paul Harvey used to say.

"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.

Apparently you don't know what that phrase means. It's exactly what I'm demanding. AA is the opposite.

 

[Leo123]

But is that what really you want? Do you think government should be making these kinds of decisions for you? Should they really be able to suppress certain opinions?

It gets tiresome having to say this, but I know a lot of people will assume a racist, looking for elbow room. I'm not. I despise racism. But I despise totalitarian government more.

The government isn't there to tell us what to think. We're entitled to our biases, no matter how repugnant they might be, no matter how irrational, no matter how much they annoy the current regime. If you take a couple of steps back and squint, you might start to see how ludicrous this really is. And it's getting worse. More and more people are in favor of making political affiliation a protected class. What's next? Maybe we should have some kind of national opinion registry, so that we can track people who aren't doing it right.

SCOTUS basically ruled that Americans should be treated as individuals, not any race, class or ethnicity or group sanctioned by the Federal Government.