Saturday Evening Judicial Reiew Post #11
Perpetuated prejudices, is the issue for today.
We won’t go into the facts and history of how the Supreme Court of The United States, manufactured a law that promotes racism. For those wanting to read all the particulars, you will have to buy and read Men In Black by Mark R. Levin. You can purchase the book by clicking the link on your left.
We would only mention the cases involved and their dates which have brought judicialized racism into our legal system. We realize that judicialized is not really a word, but it aptly describes what the SCOTUS has done. The first such case was the 1978 case, Regents of the University of California v. Bakke. The second and third cases were respectively, Grutter v. Bollinger, and Gratz v. Bollinger, both decided in 2003. The latter two cases involved the University of Michigan Law School and undergraduate school.
We agree whole-heartedly with Levin’s statement on page ninety of his book above when he writes,
“Discriminating against people because of their race is repugnant and unconstitutional. But remedying the wrong of past discrimination by inflicting new discrimination undermines the very principle of racial non-prejudice that is the professed goal of American law and public policy.”
We further agree with Justice Clarence Thomas when he wrote in his dissent against Grutter,
“No one would argue that a university could set up a lower general admission standard and then impose heightened requirements only on black applicants. Similarly, a university may not maintain a high admission standard and grant exemptions to favored races.”
We finally agree with Ward Connerly, when he wrote his reaction to Grutter and Gratz,
“Let it be said that when given a chance to complete the liberation of black Americans, on June 23, 2003, five justices consigned them to another generation–or, perhaps, a term of indefinite duration–of virtual enslavement to the past. Instead of being free to just be Americans, the Court has entrapped American-born blacks in a seemingly inescapable web of being set apart from the rest of America, as well as prolonging the suspicion and stigmatization that is visited on the accomplishments of high-achievers who are perceived to benefit from “diversity” and “affirmative action” just because of their skin color.”
We labled the issue today perpetuated predudices, because the SCOTUS has only perpetuated an idea, that may have been well intentioned when first instituted, but over time has proven to be devisive and counter productive in race relations in American culture.
This writer graduated forty-second out of forty-four in his high school graduating class. He was still admitted to a college in the fall of 1969, and promptly flunked out the first semester. On August 18, 1975, this writer became a Christian, and with the call to ministry from God, went back to the same college and was re-admitted, finally attending three different colleges, he graduated with a bachelors degree, went on to study at one of the toughest seminaries in the country, and is on his third adult career. You can do what you want to do, if you want to do it badly enough, and you don’t need an activist Supreme Court’s assistance to do it.
Does that mean it will always be easy? Of course not, but those reading this article, especially you young people, you have a choice, you can either be the one handing out burgers at McDonalds, or you can be the one driving through, having the burgers handed to you. It is strictly up to you.
We would close today by saying, that in America in 2005, anyone can become anything they want to be if they put their mind, body, and spirit into it. Just because a door closes in one direction for you, it only means that another door will be opened in different direction. Follow the open doors, and eventually you will get where you want to be.
All quotations above were taken from the book, Men In Black, referenced above.
