How the Supreme Court’s Decision Yesterday Impacts Higher Ed
TEASER: In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court limited public school districts’ use of race in school assignments. While the deciding justices plainly state numerous times in their opinion that the ruling will not affect higher education, the four dissenting liberals argued that the court’s decision “tacitly” overrules Grutter v. Bollinger, which upheld the University of Michigan Law School’s affirmative action admissions policy in 2003.http://diverseeducation.com/artman/publish/article_7916.shtml
June 29th, 2007 at 12:35 pm
We should welcome the Supreme Court’s decision to provide equal protection from racial discrimination. If you’ll remember the Civil Rights Movement wasn’t about guaranteeing equal outcomes it was about guaranteeing equal treatment. By taking race as a factor out of education decisions we can finally begin to provide the long-overdue equal treatment we have been fighting for.
July 2nd, 2007 at 9:31 pm
So much could be said about the high courts latest actions unfortunately this issue is soooooooo significant to spell out a case through this medium is very limiting.
(Roberts attacked that interpretation, ending his opinion saying: “The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.”)
I guess Roberts forgot or never heard about the little rock 9. Relevance is that when the United States government decided that race separation in schools hurt everyone the NATIONAL guard had to enforced the FEDERAL law cause white America said oh no you don’t. Similarly we just celebrated June-teeenth, again the government said one thing and the people (absent authority) did what they wanted.
It’s amost sad to see that some think this is no big deal!
BUT don’t fret this is what you voted for when you voted for BUSH!