Well, once again, I am following up on a piece I wrote with the promise of part two. I intended to do it several weeks after publishing the first part, but as the saying goes, unplanned events took over. But, from a certain point of view, what transpired from the time of my writing the first part of this article series has provided a more in-depth view of this topic.
Affirmative Action Voting Rights and DEI deserve a forthright and honest approach that shares the good, bad, and ugly of these significant sets of issues that are important not just to African Americans but to society as a whole, including everyone, regardless of skin pigmentation. If you ask yourself what an honest approach could mean and that these topics include everyone, you’re asking the correct questions.
On the other hand, if you’re reading, thinking this is going to be a diatribe by another angry Black man who believes the world owes him something because of slavery, there is a modicum of correctness in your initial assessment. I am Black, and I suppose my writing the follow-up to my initial article is a diatribe about what is truly owed to those once enslaved, just as the Native Americans also deserve rightful compensation and reparations for the inhuman events rendered to them in the name of Manifest Destiny specifically as it relates to the cruel treatment done to them in a country they inhabited but was, “discovered?”
There is the issue of the kidnapping of freed humans from their homeland on the African continent, never to see their home or family again as they became chattel property of wealthy white landowners who held the beliefs of Thomas Jefferson, who said:
“I advance it therefore as a suspicion only, that the blacks, whether originally a distinct race, or made distinct by time and circumstances, are inferior to the whites in the endowments both of body and mind. It is not against experience to suppose that different species of the same genus, or varieties of the same species, may possess different qualifications.”—Jefferson’s Writings, pg 270.
Jefferson’s view of “blacks being inferior in body and mind” continues to be a periwinkle on any relative progress made by individuals deemed inferior today despite the tremendous accomplishments of so many individuals of color.
Often used as justification for not employing them, and if hired, frequently found their work questioned, with surprise at the quality, thoroughness, and overall logic many believed as Jefferson did, lacking the endowments of both body and mind. Too often questioned and doubted that people who aren’t white are capable of producing high-quality work. Why? Because of the lies, half-truths, and other denigrating remarks and beliefs passed on to them by individuals who are abject racists.
A close friend of mine has the following saying; ‘the truth will set you free, but first, it will kick your ass.’
The views Jefferson held, along with those of his time, have transcendent to our time, are well intact, and have formable obstacles that continue to cast doubt about them being in institutions. Suppose these “people” somehow make it into institutions such as Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Colombia, or the United States Military academies such as West Point, the US Naval Academy, or the Air Force Academy. It’s not because they have the requisite skills and intellectual ability to be there.
It has to be because of Affirmative Action. How else can it be explained when the third President of this country essentially said non-white people (specifically) Blacks are not capable of handling the intellectual challenges they would face at such elite institutions of advanced learning?
So, when the opposite is proven, they indeed have the intellectual capacity; the critics find it unacceptable, blaming Affirmative Action, DEI, and other nonsequitur events for allowing what they believe are inferior individuals in their elite scared halls of learning.
How different would this country be if not for the logic of Jefferson and the citizens of the fledgling country we call the United States, clinging to their views of their right to enslave people who were free in their country but kidnapped and brought here against their will as enslaved individuals, designated as non-human and doomed to the inhumanity of enslavement? Would they have progressed as they did? Would they have survived without the enslaved humans? I believe we know the answer. Their skin pigmentation was the stigmata that justified their being seen as necromancers and blamed for whatever their owners wanted to place on their already scarred backs from the lashes their deviant owners applied with degenerate pleasure.
The degradation, denigration, and demonization of Black people as being incapable of higher-level functions and only suited for menial jobs are the underlying factors that have fostered the continuous efforts to keep Black citizens down, under-educated, and unemployable for higher paying jobs due to the lack of educational requirements.
Denying Black students the right to a decent education was often used to limit their opportunities for advancement and improving their lives, which under the Constitution was their right in their pursuit of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. So when desegregation became the law of the land, all efforts were made to limit that pursuit. Brown v Board of Education open the barred doors to higher education.
Still, the reluctance to let go of the belief of White supremacy and the stupidity of white intellectual superiority would continue to blind segregationists that an educated nation of people of all races provides a more robust economy and eventually leads to harmony in the country.
The justification for denying education to Black children wasn’t because they were incapable of learning complicated subjects. We know from history that lies about the lack of intelligence were falsehoods told in attempts to keep the Negro in their place. One cannot hide intelligence. It has a way of manifesting itself. However, some are still working to minimize the accomplishments made by Blacks and claim they are getting preferential treatment. Or something on the line, such as their accomplishments not being significant enough to brag about or colleges and universities showing them preferential treatment by accepting them with lower test scores compared to other minorities who score higher.
When reading the Supreme Court decision in his favor, it was rather curious why Blum used Asian Americans as his foils in his overt effort to dismantle Harvard and UNC’s selection process when Asian Americans have some of the highest scores and acceptance rates of the three groups.
Blum won his case. Harvard and UNC have to change their process with just about every college and university in the country. His victory has already impacted enrollment at various colleges and universities. Some have seen significant drops in their enrollment of African Americans, others little change, but they are feeling overall and overt effects of this decision.
Chief Justice Roberts and five other of his fellow justices found in favor of Blum and, doing so, have once again, definitively made it known where Black people stand in the eyes of the Supreme Court when it comes to being genuinely seen as full citizens in this country—a country many have given their lives for. This opinion is incongruent for me, especially when Roberts cited the following from the Bakke decision in writing his decision;
“Three hundred and fifty years ago, the Negro was dragged to this country in chains to be sold into slavery. Uprooted from his homeland and thrust into bondage for forced labor, the slave was deprived of all legal rights. It was unlawful to teach him to read; he could be sold away from his family and friends at the whim of his master; and killing or maiming him was not a crime. The system of slavery brutalized and dehumanized both master and slave.
Roberts’s phrasing in the above quote is interesting, in particular the last sentence: “The system of slavery brutalized and dehumanized both master and slave.” Roberts implies both parties suffered from the brutality of the enslavement of Africans for profit. I found what he wrote beyond disingenuous and insulting when you consider the following:
No African came in freedom to the shores of the New World. From this, it follows that all who now reside there are either slaves or freemen. Thus the Negro passes on the outward sign of the ignominy to all his descendants at birth. The law may destroy servitude, but only God can obliterate its trace. – Tocqueville Democracy in America, pg. 394.
Roberts’s assertion both owner and owner suffered under the cruelty of enslavement is beyond insulting, just as his ruling in favor of Blum and the phony organization he created to take a blowtorch to Affirmative Action.
Blum has successfully put the higher education system on their back foot so that many are working to rework their admissions requirements so as not to be on the wrong side of this ridiculous ruling. But he isn’t finished.
In ruling in Blum’s favor, Roberts added a footnote that essentially placed the Military academies off limits as the court saw they had a ligament need to consider race in their selection process that centered around he wrote the following:
“No military academy is a party to these cases, however, and none of the courts below addressed the propriety of race-based admissions systems in that context.”
“This opinion also does not address the issue, in light of the potentially distinct interests that military academies may present.”
Blum is a dog with a bone, and there is no way in Hell he is stopping, as indicated by the most recent ruling where he just lost a case against the Navel Academy.
In this case, SFFA has challenged any consideration of race by the Naval Academy in
its admissions process. After an intense one-year period of discovery and a nine-day bench trial, this Court has found that the Academy’s admissions program withstands the strict scrutiny mandated by the Harvard case. The Naval Academy has established a compelling national security interest in a diverse officer corps in the Navy and Marine Corps.
Furthermore, that interest is indeed measurable, and the Academy’s admissions program is narrowly tailored to meet that interest. In short, this Court defers to the executive branch with respect to military personnel decisions. Specifically, as noted by Justice Kavanaugh in Austin v. United States Navy Seals, “the President of the United States, not [this] federal judge” ultimately makes such decisions. Accordingly, based on the foregoing Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law, this Court enters the following,
IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED AND ADJUDGED THAT Judgment shall be
ENTERED in favor of Defendants and AGAINST Plaintiff Students for Fair Admissions.
Blum is a dog with a bone. He will not let go of what he believes is his quest to obliterate all things related to Affirmative Action and his view of what he considers an unfair advantage to those subjected to the racist beliefs perpetuated by people such as Jefferson, Tany, and every person who sees being born Black as a stigma, an outward marker these people are of low intelligence. Devoid of innate abilities requiring the structure of enslavement to provide them the protection they need for their benefit since they are an inferior form of humans.
Edward Blum will not let this recent court decision deter him. As I said, he is a dog with a bone, and he no doubt sees himself as a man on a righteous question for what he believes is a heavenly cause, but he is not righting and un-rightable wrong.
Not at all. If anything, Blum is furthering the dismantling of all the progress Blacks have made since Brown v. Board of Education. His recent victory over the Fearless Found suggests that in no uncertain terms. Going after a Black Venture Capitalist organization that offered $20,000 grants to Black-owned women’s businesses was determined to be discriminatory because the founders made this contest for Black women business owners.
This case is troubling as it suggests a clear double standard and a total abrogation of civil rights in the sense that ‘what is right me, is wrong for thee.’ I will expand on the conclusion of Affirmative Action, DEI, Voting Rights. They Want It All.
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