The Supremes

 I believe the reason our Founding Fatherstm chose to call the judicial branch of the federal government the Supreme Court was to keep wiseapples like myself from arguing with it. Once again we see that the Founding Fatherstm may not have anticipated futrue generations of change, diversity, and wiseapples like myself. 

Those nine folks in black robes just ruled that Affirmative Action for college admissions "must end." To be fair, which is really their job and not mine, not all of the folks in black robes voted to do away with race-conscious student admissions. It was six to three in favor of the folks in white skin. So-called "Justice" John Roberts wrote for the majority that those programs "violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment." 

So, you fans of Constitutional Law, I present before you the Fourteenth Amendment: "No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." You caught that part abaout "equal protection," right? Well, that seems to be the sticking point here, but "Justice" John seems to think that affirmative action keeps that whole equal thing from happening. There was another guy, "Justice" Clarence Thomas who piled on by writing that under the Fourteenth Amendment, "the color of a person’s skin is irrelevant to that individual’s equal status as a citizen of this nation.” 

Now, if you happen to be one of those casual Supreme Court watchers, you may not have noticed that "Justice" Clarence Thomas is black. Having him write in favor of eliminating Affrimative Action seems like a way to really slam the door on this whole Institutional racism thing, doesn't it? Except that in 1971, "Justice: Thomas was admitted to Yale's Law School as part of the affirmative action practice because the school wanted ten percent of its incoming class that year to be students of color. 

Again, Good News! Because this means that whatever climate existed in 1971 that would have kept hungry young law student Clarence out of Yale Law School no longer exists. Pack up your Black Lives Matter protest signs and take down your Barack Obama scrapbooks. America is the land of the free and the home of the completely equitable. Just ask Mike "None Whiter" Pence. “There may have been a time, fifty years ago, when we needed to affirmatively take steps to correct long-term racial bias in institutions of higher education. But I can tell you as the father of three college graduates, those days are long over.” Those three college graduates are painfully white as Mister Mike. 

Sorry, I am Supremely Disappointed.