The Usual Shenanigans

Looks like the Supremes – not the musical group – are up to their typical tricks and unwilling, once again, to slap down a reasoned and explicit decision encompassing the best principles of Constitutional law. I understand the Declaration of Independence is not law, merely an expression of first principles, but obviously they completely ignored the phrase “all men are created equal.” And, as a matter of real, Constitutional law they seem to have misplaced their books covering the Fourteenth Amendment. Here’s the relevant bit from Section 1:

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.

I don’t see anything in there indicating that black folks have more of a right to an education than white folks. I do see language indicating that black folks have as equal a right to the fruits of the system as brown folks or yellow folks or pink folks or red folks. How, exactly, does diversity gained through a quota system ensure “to any person . . . the equal protection of the laws?” Seems to me someone’s getting screwed.

While we’re on the subject of diversity I can say from my own personal experience it’s total and complete bollocks. Gettysburg College is a very politically correct, liberally bent school – just like most others – and, I’m sure put a high premium on diversity. And for all that presumed effort did I ever interact with people of other cultures or skin color on a daily basis?

Nope.

So much for the rounding diversity is supposed to provide. People are people, no matter what the social engineers would like you to think. People will always cling to others with similar interests. All of us oddballs who liked Python and discussing esoteric subjects in the middle of the night clustered together, etc. Such is the way of the human animal, we’ve been acting the same way for tens of thousands of years despite innumerable efforts to change our behavior and although we no longer think poorly of people simply based on their external appearance our natural desire to segregate ourselves according to whatever bizarre social subgroupings we so choose will never go away.