The Perniciousness of It All
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is an affirmation action pick for the United States Supreme Court. There were far more qualified options on the left. But Joe Biden wanted a black woman, and she checked that box.
She knows it, and her work product in response to the Supreme Court’s end of affirmative action shows she was not the most meritorious pick. In her defense of racial preferences, she cited a study that claims black babies have a higher likelihood of survival if they have black doctors instead of white doctors. The claim was made in an amicus brief and is based on a study that does not actually show that.
What the study shows is that there is a higher percentage of white doctors who work in neo-natal ICU cases. Children who go to NICU have a greater likelihood of death. The study, in other words, shows NICU babies are more likely to die and because NICU pediatric physicians tend to be white, the data appears to suggest black babies with white doctors die more than black babies with black doctors. But it is a correlation, not causation, and subtracting NICU babies from the mix makes the data suggestion go away.
Citing that is amateur. The claim had been thoroughly debunked before the Supreme Court ever heard arguments on this case last year. But the claim is already being repeated by the same press corps that lectures the rest of us on fake news, misinformation, and disinformation.
While all this is happening, the left is attacking Clarence Thomas for denying other black kids the affirmative action from which they say he benefited. Thomas has long stated that affirmative action amounts to a scarlet letter around black kids. No one can ever know if they got to their position in life because of their merit or because progressive institutions gave them a leg up over more qualified students. The left is proving Thomas right.
But this all goes away legally.
The reality, however, is that much like the segregationists of the South after the Civil War continued to engage in racist segregation policies, the segregationists of the left now will continue to engage in racially discriminatory policies. Ketanji Brown Jackson premised her entire dissent on the perpetual victimhood of the black race — a view more at home in the Taney Court than the Roberts Court.
But, just as the abortionists of today echo the arguments of the slave owners of the South, the racial progressives of today echo the arguments of segregationists of the Reconstruction South. Democrats are, forever and always, echoes of a confederacy they once defended while conveniently rewriting history to deny the very ideas they still espouse.
You cannot dismiss this basic, proven, and indisputable fact. Yesterday, the United States Supreme Court found that Harvard and the University of North Carolina both actively, willfully, and consciously chose to penalize one minority racial group to benefit another minority racial group. One cannot take seriously the arguments of those who say racism is bad when those same people engage in and defend open and explicit racism.
To quote Chief Justice John Roberts in yesterday’s opinion, “Separate but equal is ‘inherently unequal,’ said Brown [vs. Board of Education].… It depends, says the dissent.”
This whole race thing is just another thing that is growing to tear our nation apart. I am a white Marine that when a student at the Air Force Academy was told my his father that he disowned him, we adopted him because he is a sharp, intelligent man that has now retired as a Col. and married with four children that are all doing great. Yes my adopted son is black. That was in 1989. Love him dearly and he married a white lady. We ALL are very proud to have each other. I have three daughters and did have three sons, with him being one of them. One son passed away after his second booster shot when he got blood cots. I love them ALL the same.
One thing in common is we have the Lord in our lives and this nation is falling away from our Christian values so fast and has a lot to do with what is happening today.
Blessings to you Erick, and your wife and family
There is the basic economic argument that will slowly grind this issue to dust. In the pre-civil war south, most slaves were owned to produce cotton. Someone had to go into the fields and pick cotton. Just because the civil war ended did not mean people no longer needed to go into the cootn fields and pick cotton. It was not until the early 1950s that the mechanical cotton stripper was invented. This mechanized cotton picking and illuminated the need for unskilled labor. Slowly, the production of cotton was mechanized and by 1970, the rural southern agricultural economy was radically changed. From the post civil war, we saw the South experience a net outmigration of whites and blacks that accelerated into the 1940s. But in the 1950s things reversed. First Whites (the 1950s) then Blacks (the 1980s) migrated back to the south.
From 1950 to 2020 the southern confederate states gained 70 house seats in the US House of Representatives, while the northern Union states lost 40 seats. As we move into the age of the cell phone (the information age beginning with the PC introduced in 1980), the barriers to economic advancement began to disappear. The information age does not recognize your race. It recognizes your ability to consume and manipulate information.
I rent apartments. I rent to a lot of black people. I rent to a lot of single black females. Alot of them work from home. They have a computer, good language skills and handle customer service for companies like Delta. From time to time while I am in a unit doing repairs, I will hear the endo of day/week team meeting. There is the team leader talking to younger team members about dealing with customers. It is amazing how the conversation is about perspective and how team members must ignore their individual preconspetions and recognize the customer needs proper interaction. To me this is just further evidence that no matter where we come from, our family history, our community culture (so to speak) treating people with curtosey and respect is universal. I have a problem and I dont know how to solve the problem. So I call coustomer service. The solution is easy if people listen and provide clear guidance.
Over time, this natural integration of individuals of all types into our economy makes the whole "America is racist" argument meaningless.
In 1940 if you were black and lived in the south, the solution to economic opportunity was moving to the North, MidWest and the West. Move anywhere outside the South. Unfortunately, a black person moving to Chicago often placed you into a failing inner city neighborhood. Now, moving back to the south lets you break out of that dynamic and deliver you to a better economic place. But you will have to work and set aside your preconceived ideas about how you view the world. If you want to live in the ghetto and bath in the America is racist society, you better hope you have a good skill in grifting to attain economic success. But those opportunities will fade as America recognizes that the racial spoils system is not solving the problems produced by slavery, jim corw and segregation.