SCOTUS recently ruled that race cannot be used as a critierion for school admissions -- just as an earler incarnation of SCOTUS had ruled in 1954 when helping to end the Jim Crow era. But a black writer shows deep incomprehension of that. A few excerpts below:
"The ruling is a resounding victory for the White Citizens' Council, and the racist governors who once blocked the schoolhouse door. The spirit of Jim Crow lives on in the hearts and minds of this Supreme Court's regressive, segregationist majority, over 50 years after Brown. "Diversity is illegal" is the new standard, it would seem, and we must do everything in our power to resist this.
Meanwhile, siding with the majority, Justice Clarence Thomas concluded that school districts have no interest in remedying segregation: ".... Simply putting students together under the same roof does not necessarily mean that the students will learn together or even interact. Furthermore, it is unclear whether increased interracial contact improves racial attitudes and relations.... Some studies have even found that a deterioration in racial attitudes seems to result from racial mixing in schools."
Did he say "racial mixing"?
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"Diversity is illegal"? What a brain-dead interpretation of the verdict. Apparently the writer cannot tell the difference between diversity and forced diversity. And the point made by Justice Thomas that greater contact between the races often leads to LESS racial harmony is well attested in the academic literature. The fact that Thomas referred to "race mixing" (where social scientists such as myself would use the term "interracial contact") was admirable for its plain speech but apparently the writer thinks the only mixing that there is takes place in bed. I suspect that tells us more about the writer than anything else.
Some people might think that my mocking comments above on the addled effusions of a black writer are "insensitive" and show a lack of understanding of legitimate black grievance. I think however that I am simply exposing him to the same level of mockery that I direct at white Leftists. I am, in short, refusing to have different rules for different races. It seems to me that I am REFUSING to be racist and it is those who have lower standards for blacks who are being racist and paternalistic.
