There Will Be A Brief Delay …
… in regularly scheduled (or unscheduled) blogging while I take a time-out to read the opinions in the Seattle/Louisville case.
Yes!
[Note: See ADDENDUM II below....] Chief Justice Roberts said it all, and he said it well, as the Supremes struck down racial school assignments in Seattle and Louisville: “The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race….” (Emphasis added) ADDENDUM Lest you rejoice too much, [...]
News: Tattoos? Who Knew…
… that tattoos could be claimed as a civil right? Now, thank to this post on Overlawyered, you do. (HatTip to reader Stephen Thomas.)
Upside Down Brown
Writing in today’s Philadelphia Daily News, Villanova emeritus law professor Howard Lurie argues that if the Supremes allow Louisville and Seattle to assign students to school by race they will be turning Brown upside down. At issue in the cases to be decided is whether the equal-protection clause allows governments to deny an educational opportunity [...]
Racial Preference Can Be Deadly
From today’s Canton (Ohio) Repository: CANTON – The police officer accused of killing his girlfriend and her unborn child was given consideration to be hired on the city force because he was black, according to the civil service director, police chief and city records. Bobby L. Cutts Jr. scored 70th out of 98 applicants who [...]
Glaring Lack Of “Diversity” In Women’s Sports
The Chronicle of Higher Education reports this morning that more black women participate in college sports since the enactment of Title IX, but very few of them “participate in sports other than basketball and track.” In fact, the article notes, “nine of every 10 black female college athletes participate in one of those sports.” “What’s [...]
Telling It Like It (Mostly) Is
Regular readers — or for that matter, even irregular readers — of this blog know that I have a high regard for the writing of Peter Schmidt, a deputy editor of the Chronicle of Higher Education who writes extensively, and well, there about affirmative action. That is not to say that I always agree with [...]
Righting What Wrongs?
The best guess now is that the long-awaited Supreme Court decision on racial school assignments will be announced on Thursday. Meanwhile, the Seattle Post Intelligencer has an editorial today, “Seattle Schools: Righting wrongs,” hoping that the Supremes will leave the Seattle schools “room to right the long-lasting wrongs of discrimination and prepare young people for [...]
The Sky-Is-Falling Chorus Starts Up In Colorado
Here we go again. The hysterical fear-mongering accusations that barring the state from discriminating on the basis of race will prevent university officials from speaking to black ministers and outlaw “[s]creening programs targeting Latinas with high rates of breast cancer or African-American males who die of prostate cancer in disproportionately high numbers” have begun to [...]
Lott Of Hot Air
Q: How can you tell if Sen. Trent Lott, Republican Whip, is saying something dumb? A. Watch to see if his lips are moving. His appearance today on Fox News Sunday was no exception. Chris Wallace, the moderator, quoted a couple of his recent attacks on talk radio, including this one: Take a look at [...]
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