1/ As I read it, the SCOTUS Affirmative Action decision calls for lineage based affirmative action. It corrects the overextension of Negro AA to the diversity grift! Even Justice Thomas notes that the Freedmen were a particular class … not all Blacks and certainly not others!
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As I read it, affirmative actions for Freedmen protected class is reinforced by both the majority decision (6 Justices) AND the dissent (3 Justices). They both acknowledge schools can (and are constitutionally allowed to) focus admissions on Freedmen. pameladeniselong.medium.com/the-u-s-suprem…
DO NOT LET ANY PUNDIT CONVINCE YOU THAT THE SCOTUS HAS ENDED AFFIRMATIVE ACTION. They are WRONG. The court has reinvigorated the ORIGINAL INTENT of the post-civil war 14th amendment and Negro AA.
What pundits are misinterpreting is “colorblind” versus “Freedmen” protected class (lineage). Freedmen are a specific group conferred based discrimination & position of servitude NOT based on global race markers nor the diversity grift.
Freedmen orgs must work with schools to have them add a checkbox for Freedmen/descendant of U.S. slaves which are THE PEOPLE for whom the 14th is written.
The lawyers for the defendants tried to have it all by arguing for diversity and it was bad legal strategy.
Their lawyers should have argued for protected class versus the diversity grift…but that would have been unpopular.
Clip 👇🏾 from Thomas’s concurrence where he refers to Justice Sotomayer.
It’s a call for affirmative action based on lineage/protected class. That is what affirmative action should have remained about!
#lineagematters
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