Several hundred racists gathered outside U.S. Supreme Court
Published Mon, Dec 4 2006 2:19 PM
Technorati Tags: News and Politics, Courts, Political Correctness, Education
From the Washington Post comes this quote in an article on the Supreme Court hearing arguments in two cases regarding schools and racial preferences:
Several hundred demonstrators, many of them college or high school students, gathered on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court early this morning to proclaim support for using skin color as a factor in admissions in order to maintain racially diverse public schools.
In the name of diversity and political correctness these students want to perpetuate racism. Basing an admissions policy on skin color goes completely counter to the original intent of the civil rights movement. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would be appalled at the way the left has perverted his dream.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
The fourteenth amendment to the United States Constitution says, in part:
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.
Using skin-color to choose who can go to what school is directly contrary to this amendment. Equal protection applies to all people, regardless of the color of their skin. Affirmative action is just another name for institutionalized racism.
It's long past time we stopped playing this game. Racism is still racism, whether the victim is black or, as is increasingly the case, white or Asian. It's time we realized Dr. King's dream. It's time we grew up and realized that skin color is a ludicrous criteria for judgement.
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