U.S. Supreme Court Don't Bank On It

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Joy Reid, one of the MSNBC hosts and author of this newly-released book, was approached by
 Harvard University to go there, because of affirmative action.

Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.

Supreme Court overturned affirmative action.

Don't bank on it about Donald Trump. Below is old post 10 December 2023 about affirmative action.

Who: U.S. Supreme Court

When: 29 June 2023

What: strikes down affirmative action in college admissions

Why: it is unconstitutional

The Court’s decision that using race as a factor for admission to Harvard University and University of North Carolina (UNC) is unconstitutional, will have a domino effect that will affect teaching staff in all American universities.

How? Interpretation. The Court’s decision is 237 pages, but very few college trustees and administrators have read or will read all of them. They just grabbed ‘race’ and ran with it and will use it to change the locks on African American academic genius and hard work. Yes, genius because we are talking about human beings.

I’m saying African American because the 237 pages are a whole book on how and why there is affirmative action in colleges like Harvard and UNC. Let’s start with ‘affirmative.’ What is being affirmed? You must be a human being first before you can get privileges of being American. The 237 pages have case law of how black people were not ‘human.’ White settlers who hated each other in Europe became brothers and made a pact on the financial advantage of denying that blacks are human beings.

Affirmative action in colleges comes from that, affirming that people who were called cargo on ships and slaves on plantations are first humans, have a mind because they are human, are capable of being geniuses because they are human and have a right to be in college because they are American.

The 29 June decision is a great victory for Students for Fair Admissions, the organization that brought it to the Supreme Court. It is the end of the road for African American professors. They might as well say goodbye to tenure and the whole academic career.

I saw a banner online, at a rally for Students for Fair Admissions. I’m Asian American I have a Dream Too. Has it come to this, that the painful history of black people, expressed in Dr. Martin Luther King's speech, is now a soccer ball to be kicked to the net? Goal! Applauds other Americans.

Nonqaba waka Msimang

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