Letters to the Editor: The Supreme Court’s conservatives are deluded on race and affirmative action
Sunday
Dec 16, 2012 at 7:00 AM
While all the hoopla and rhetoric about “unfairness” and the Supreme Court decision that “embraced” (I know the word is not necessary, but I like it) race and affirmative action, the truth can be found in the decisions by the Supreme Court. I suggest that if the court conservatives were so concerned about fairness, they would have had a far better case against the University of Mississippi or the University of Texas. The Supreme Court ruling against the University of Texas, in fact, was “unfair;” in that it was favorable to a private school, and in favor of that private school’s policies and practices.
While all the hoopla and rhetoric about “unfairness” and the Supreme Court decision that “embraced” (I know the word is not necessary, but I like it) race and affirmative action, the truth can be found in the decisions by the Supreme Court.
I suggest that if the court conservatives were so concerned about fairness, they would have had a far better case against the University of Mississippi or the University of Texas. The Supreme Court ruling against the University of Texas, in fact, was “unfair;” in that it was favorable to a private school, and in favor of that private school’s policies and practices.
With the decision in the Shelby County case, now on appeal, I see the Supreme Court not as one branch of government (like our state and local governments), but as seven separate branches. The decisions to expand, uphold or restrict affirmative action have been made by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Here are links to some of the decisions to expand affirmative action:
A letter from a reader
To the Editor:
Thank you for writing your letter about the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision regarding race in college admissions. As I look over the news and see it has become a national issue, I do feel there is a need for a national dialogue to discuss this issue. This issue has been around for decades and the Supreme
