Will America Finally Wake Up To the Facts About Race?

The world you would like may not be the world that is. Affirnative Action is over but a load of people still want to have a world where the races are the same. That’s not the real world. That’s not reality. No one lives in a world where the races are equal. Despite the intentions of people who want to push unearned benefits onto some people based on the color of their skin and despite the success these people have had pushing a moral code based on that fiction, it seems reality is catching up to them. Lots of things are unequal. Men and women have different heights, different body strengths and different sexual roles yet those diferences, unlike the differences of skin color, are accepted. Reality isn’t hard or difficult to follow but unreality is impossible to sustain over the long haul and the end of the long Affirmative Action haul is about to overcome us. Even a highly respected institution like Penn is still unable to accept the reality of race. At the end of its last term, the Supreme Court upended established equal protection law with its decision in SFFA v. Harvard and SFFA v. UNC, effectively eliminating the use of affirmative action in college admissions as of Jul 12, 2023. Let that sink in. Is this the end of race-based prefrences? No. A lot of thought went into keeping Affirmative Action going and a lot of that thought will not let go of it’s morality no matter that its wrong. The ACLU recently wrote: “While this legal decision is indisputably a major setback, it is not the end of the drive to open educational opportunities for people of color.” Obviously the ACLU does not support equal treatment under the law. That in turn means that the ACLU does not support equal treatment under the law as a moral principle. Here’s what the ACLU is doing to refuse to follow the U.S. Constitution to treat everyone the same. The ACLU wrote about “ways to increase opportunities” (not for white people) include:

Eliminate reliance on standardized testing, which has been shown to unfairly disadvantage people of color. {WHATTT!… Standardized Testing means at least each person is given the same test. How is that wrong? It isn’t but the ACLU want’s to eliminate a fair method of testing. That means only unfair methods will be used in the future… That’s immoral. }
Expand outreach and recruitment pathways from middle and high school.
Improve access from community college to a four-year degree.
Engage in holistic admissions that evaluates applicants’ demonstrated capacity and strengths in light of the resources and opportunities available to them in their K-12 community. This form of holistic review is particularly important given that American schools are increasingly segregated and unequal.

Reform secondary admissions processes that create unfair and unnecessary barriers to majors like education, nursing, and engineering.
Engage in holistic review that considers how race has impacted an individual applicant’s life.
Consider how an individual applicant’s cultural or political background, such as enrollment in a federally recognized Indian tribe or language ability, contribute to student body diversity.
Eliminate legacy preferences.
Remove barriers for justice-impacted students.

Remove financial barriers to enrollment. The financial burdens of higher education, including increasing student debt, fall disproportionately on people of color.
Adopt guaranteed admissions (top percent plans).