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Today the US Supreme Court managed to not only completely miss the obvious but also contradict themselves in the same decision about the University of Michigans admission policy

While they found the fact that Michigan uses Affirmative Action in it’s admissions procedures to be constitutional, they found using race as a specific factor in admissions to be unconstitutional. What kind of nonsense is that??

Now first of all the ideals behind Affirmative Action are good and pure, but it cannot be made public policy! The definition of Affirmative Action is as follows:

A policy or a program that seeks to redress past discrimination through active measures to ensure equal opportunity, as in education and employment.

The only way to guarantee this is to specifically take race into account and give the “minority race” preference over other races. And that my friends is the definition of racism:

Discrimination or prejudice based on race.

By leaving this policy in place but striking down the procedures that implement it you are simply delaying the issue for another day. Because their is no constitutional way to actually accomplish this policy without discriminating. Equality can be forced only as far as eliminating laws that specifically inhibit one race. That was done years ago with the throwing out of Jim Crow laws. Discriminating against one person in favor of one of another race is exactly what Affirmative Action does and that clearly violates the “Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution”.

Instead we have this screwed up system. Conservatives who want to judge people on their merit and give no attention to a persons race are labeled as racists. Meanwhile liberals who preach giving preference to one race over another are called “Champions of Civil Liberties”. And if this was really about helping minority races, then why are Asians routinely excluded from these Affirmative Action policies?? Wait a second, just because a race has a culture that emphasizes hard work and education they are no longer fit to be considered a minority? And don’t give me that crap about them not suffering as much. Many of them come from countries just as poor as anyone else. And historically they have suffered as well, I’ll give the internment camps and treatment of Asians in general during WW2 as an example.

And let’s be honest here, institutionalizing this type of behavior doesn’t benefit minorities. By allowing people who are not necessarily of sufficient skill into a program we create a very unhealthy environment. First of all, it creates resentment among those who had to earn their way in. It inconveniences others since the faculty has to give more attention to the less qualified person. And it hurts the person themselves since they may not be able to comprehend the material well enough to benefit. Therefore we either have to dumb down the material, or overlook their failures. Either way we set them up for a greater fall later on (Jayson Blair) and we potentially endanger others (for example in the medical field).

And even though Affirmative Action has been left in place, the Democrats are still screaming. And to a point that it is almost entertaining. However, what isn’t entertaining is when I here prominent Democrats (and potential Presidential candidates) publicly declaring that they would toss out our Constitutional system of Checks and Balances and do whatever they wanted in a manner of a dictator. The same Democrats who cry of disappearing liberties and jackbooted brown-shirt thugs, support a man like Gephart who says this:

When I’m president, we’ll do executive orders to overcome any wrong thing the Supreme Court does tomorrow or any other day”

So even though the Constitution grants the Supreme Court the power to check the actions of the other two branches by declaring something unconstitutional you’d override them?? Even though you’d take a pledge to uphold and defend the US Constitution, you’d toss out one of it’s founding principles in favor of your own personal political agenda?

People you might want to think if this is the type of party you want in power.