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[militantinremission]

Is ending Affirmative Action in College Admissions a bad thing?

I wanted to monitor any fallout resulting from the SCOTUS Decision on Affirmative Action before speaking on it. Watching Mainstream Media frame the narrative has been interesting. An assortment of News Anchors, across the Major News Networks have featured a variety of individuals to give 'their' perspective; but NONE of them appear to be Indigenous Black Americans. The Black Immigrants speaking on 'Our Behalf' do not share Our Experience of Racism in AmeriKKKa, so they offer a weak argument that can be easily picked apart.

None of the Black Immigrants interviewed mentioned White Supremacy by name. They speak of a 'Black' Experience in AmeriKKKa of discrimination & bias, but not the Systemic Racism that Indigenous Black Americans face. They also seem beholden to the forces of White Supremacy. The fact that Mainstream Media spotlights This Group to discuss Affirmative Action in College Admissions, is indicative of WHO has been chosen by these College Admission Boards over the decades.

Affirmative Action is being presented by Mainstream Media as a 'hand out' for Minority Groups, but this is completely false. Affirmative Action was designed specifically for American Descendants Of Chattel Slavery, as a compensation for being shut out of The New Deal & The G.I. Bill. Using Benign Neglect tactics, Liberal- Progressives [intentionally] transformed Affirmative Action into 'Diversity Initiatives for Minorities'; which benefited White Women, White LGBTQ..., & Disabled Whitefolk more than the Blackfolk that it was designed to help.

If 'The History of Race Relations in America' wasn't weaponized & repackaged as Critical Race Theory, The Public would have a clear understanding of what Affirmative Action is & why it is necessary. The Argument Against Affirmative Action in College Admissions largely comes from Asian Students that were denied Admissions to Harvard & The University Of North Carolina. The Students argued that they were discriminated against because of their Race, & the preponderance of this bias leads to Asians gaining Admission at a lower percentage than Any Other Group.

On ABC's 'This Week', Sherrilyn Ifill, of Howard University Law School explained how both UNC & Harvard held separate trials on the issue of Asian Admissions. In both Cases, Asians were NOT found to be underrepresented. 'The Real Dana', w/ Judge Joe Brown pointed out that Asian Attendance at Harvard is 27.7%, while 'Afrikan- Americans' are 9.9%, & Hispanics are 12%. The only group w/ a higher Admission Rate than Asians, are 'Harvard Legacies' [Whitefolk] at 38%... Judge Joe Brown gives background on the SCOTUS Decision, by explaining that it was inevitable.

He says that Affirmative Action was created w/ the intent of bringing Future Leaders of every Community into each other's orbit. Getting these individuals familiar w/ each other on the Collegiate Level, would benefit Society moving forward. Unfortunately, a group of Black (boule) students at U.C. Berkeley (19 Dental students, 19 Medical students- back in 1971) wanted Racial Quotas established for Berkeley Medical School. According to Judge Joe Brown, the measure was passed, despite going against California State Law (& 219 Black Law Students). This action changed Affirmative Action into a Racial Quota Program that was destined to end. Justice Sandra Day O'Connor famously quipped that Affirmative Action would end after 25Yrs, but the Original Construct barely lasted 10Yrs.

Throughout the 1970s & 1980s, Affirmative Action was stripped from the hands of Indigenous Black Americans that it was created to help, & given to an ever expanding number of Minority Groups. Today, Minorities have collected so many resources from Us, that They feel comfortable enough to speak for Black America. They [arrogantly] equate Our Experience w/ their Own. Nikki Haley, Vivek Ramaswamy, & Dinesh D'Souza are at the top; but there is a long list of Black Immigrants that also feel that They can speak for Us. Hint- If you can't say [Publicly] that White Supremacy is the underlying cause of Black Oppression in America, then you CANNOT speak for Us.

The SCOTUS Ruling on Affirmative Action in College Admissions has triggered expected reactions. Chief Justice John Roberts ruled on the grounds of the Color Blind intent(?) of The U.S. Constitution, so he needs to clarify. How does he explain Indigenous Blackfolk being relegated to 3/5ths of Humanity, in a (so- called) Color Blind Society? Justices Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, & Coney- Barrett were expected to tow the Conservative Line. Justice Kagan was expected to tow the Liberal Line, but attention remained focused on Justices Thomas, Sotomayor, & Brown- Jackson. All three were beneficiaries of Affirmative Action; at least more clearly than Justice Kagan.

Justices Sotomayor, & Brown- Jackson both dissented w/ this Ruling. Justice Sonia Sotomayor offered what she called 'the most obvious data point available to this Institution today'. The Example of 3 Supreme Court Justices of Color. All graduates of elite universities & law schools that offered race conscious Admissions Programs, who went on to have successful legal careers. Justice Ketanji Brown- Jackson offered the additional commentary of the 'let them eat cake obliviousness' of the Majority, & 'ostrich like hope' that ignoring Race will somehow make racial inequities disappear.

Justice Thomas concurred w/ Chief Justice Roberts' Ruling, emphasizing the Race Neutral Argument. He went further, singling out Justice Brown- Jackson when he said: "As she sees things, we're all inexorably trapped in a fundamentally racist society". He goes on to accuse her of labelling All Black People as victims. Clarence Thomas has been under a microscope, ever since his ominous gay marriage comments following SCOTUS' repeal of Roe vs Wade. Reports of unethical behavior by Justice Thomas & his Wife, has kept him in the spotlight.

The dumpster dive into Clarence Thomas' Life has revealed that he has extremely low regard for Affirmative Action. He blames his trouble finding work, fresh out of Yale Law School w/ being typecasted as an Affirmative Action beneficiary. It's interesting how a former 'Black Panther sympathizer' never considered Race as a factor. It's said that Thomas affixed a 10 Cent Stamp to his Yale Law Degree- claiming that thanks to Affirmative Action, that's all it's worth. Ironically, despite Clarence Thomas' (nearly obsessive) desire to prove himself on his own merits, EVERY JOB that he landed in the Law Profession, was predicated on his Race.

I'm not a fan of Ketanji Brown- Jackson, but I agree w/ her more than I agree w/ Clarence Thomas. His condescending tone towards her reminds me of Anita Hill- another Black Woman w/ a Legal Mind superior to his. Both women make Thomas look like a 'mental midget', & he KNOWS it. All of the attention that Justice Thomas is getting is jeopardizing his usefulness. White Supremacy moves in the shadows; the spotlight on the 'excess' of Justices Thomas & Alito will likely affect the future of SCOTUS. This may explain the effort to show that the Justices found consensus in most of the Cases they preside over.

From an Indigenous Black American perspective, the issue of ending Affirmative Action in College Admissions is moot. It hasn't benefited Us specifically in over 30Yrs. The fact that Asian students are the protagonists of this move is gut busting! The Asian presence on College Campuses is literally 4X their percentage of the American population. I guess they don't understand that this action will reduce their presence on College Campuses. I wasn't aware of the number of Asian students that lie & cheat to get into College; the extra scrutiny expected from the SCOTUS Ruling will certainly affect those individuals.

Some are saying that Black American students should look to HBCUs, but Indigenous Black Americans, as a group, have been unable to afford HBCU tuitions for over 30Yrs. The majority of the students on these Campuses, like the majority of Black students on Ivy League Campuses, are Black Immigrants. They are being prepped to become the Joy Reid, Roland Martin, Barack Obama, & Kamala Harris of the future. Their experience/ perspective once again, is of discrimination & bias, not Systemic Racism & White Supremacy. These are the folks that allow People Of Color/ Brownfolk to pass racist remarks w/o 'putting them in perspective'.

Affirmative Action Programs & the Diversity Initiatives that they were repackaged as, offered Minorities an enormous 'hand up' over the last 45+Yrs. Post Vietnam, Immigrants were offered what Professor Black Truth calls: 'goodies giveaways & guarantees' that Indigenous Black Americans were promised, but never received. Immigrant Enclaves began popping up, as thriving Black Communities began to decay. Is it a coincidence that many of the new store owners in Our Community were inhabitants of these Enclaves; in areas that were former Sundown Towns?

The AmeriKKKan Government is making it abundantly clear that it is Green Light Go! w/ the campaign of Anti Black Racism. Using their 'Model Minority' as a proxy may surprise the newcomers, but those of Us w/ Blood & Bones in the soil have been foretelling how THIS will be White Supremacy's Method of Attack. Ending Affirmative Action in College Admissions will inevitably lead to the End of Affirmative Action altogether. I say good! It has been an albatross around Our Collective Neck. We get the accusations of tokenism & mediocrity, while others reaped the benefits. Let All of the minorities earn their keep- No More Free Milk from Black America! Get your own legislation, & we'll get Ours.

[dcsnyder]

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[kingbty]

#Moors #DredScott #Black #African #Negro #Colored #Nationality

[usnatarchives]

Portrait of Dred Scott by Louis Schultze, commissioned by "a group of Negro citizens" and presented to the Missouri Historical Society in 1882. Supreme Court, Dred Scott case summary, 3/6/1857, NARA ID 301673.

Judgement: Dred Scott v. Sanford #OTD 1857

#OTD in 1857, the Supreme Court ruled that slaves and their descendants were not citizens – a decision decried by legal scholars as the worst ever rendered by the Court, one that later Chief Justice Evans Hughes called a “self-inflicted wound that almost destroyed the Supreme Court.”

By Miriam Kleiman, Public Affairs

This decision was overturned by the 13th and 14th amendments to the Constitution, which abolished slavery and declared all persons born in the United States to be citizens of the United States. This decision is one of the hundreds of thousands of Supreme Court case files at the National Archives, dating from 1792.

Will nobody speak for me at Washington, even without hope of other reward than the blessings of a poor black man and his family? Dred Scott, July 4, 1854

Background: In 1846 a slave named Dred Scott and his wife, Harriet, sued for their freedom in a St. Louis city court. The odds were in their favor. They had lived with their owner, an army surgeon, at Fort Snelling, then in the free Territory of Wisconsin. The Scotts' freedom could be established on the grounds that they were held in bondage for extended periods in a free territory and were then returned to a slave state. Courts had ruled this way in the past. However, what appeared to be a straightforward lawsuit between two private parties became an 11-year legal struggle that culminated in one of the most notorious decisions ever issued by the United States Supreme Court.

I declare that the opinion of the chief justice in the case of Dred Scott was more thoroughly abominable than anything of the kind in the history of courts. Judicial baseness reached its lowest point on that occasion.” –Charles Sumner

Supreme Court Judgment , Dred Scott v. Sandford, 3/6/1857, NARA ID 301674. More online:

National Archives, African American History, Laws and Court Cases.

DocsTeach Lesson Plan: Judgment in the U.S. Supreme Court Case Dred Scott v. John F. A. Sandford

DocsTeach Lesson Plan: From Dred Scott to the Civil Rights Act of 1875: Eighteen Years of Change

Speech by Frederick Douglass on the Dred Scott Decision, May 1957.

[kiranbalanphoto-blog]

The Old St. Louis County Courthouse was completed in 1828. It was Missouri’s tallest habitable building from 1864 to 1894, and was the site for all the trials during the Dred Scott v. Sandford case. •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• #missouri #STL #SaintLouis #oldcourthouse #travelmissouri #justgoshoot #nikon #nikonusa #dredscott #historygram #photooftheday (at The Historie Old Courthouse.. St Louis,Mo) https://www.instagram.com/p/B1EMyUpAsmQ/?igshid=1vlke2oi1ovhc

[franklong12]

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[wwtweets]

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[spanky606]

Regrann from @foodfortaught - Can anybody spot the contradiction here ? 🤔 The fourteenth amendment never made you formally apart of ANY nation. STATELESS. #Americans #UnitedStatians #foodfortaught #alphyslawschool #DredScott #statelessness - #regrann

[drmnola]

A group of men were symbolically lynched yesterday with the stroke of a pen for the sake of the almighty dollar. @nfl shame on you! #imperialistwhitesupremacistcapitalistpatriarchy on full display with out an once of remorse. We must resist! ✊🏾 🏴: @dreadscottart 2015 #resist #drmnola #nfl #freespeech #art #dredscott #nola #thewhitney #protestart (at Whitney Museum of American Art)

[uptownbill]

#dredscott #dredscottdecision Reposted from @vintagesoul2012 Dred Scott was a slave who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom & that of his wife & 2 daughters in the 1857, "Dred Scott Decision." The case was based on the fact that although he & his wife Harriet were slaves, they had lived with his master in states & territories where slavery was illegal according to both state laws. The Supreme Court decided 7–2 against Scott, finding that neither he nor any other Black person could claim citizenship in the U. S. https://www.instagram.com/p/CIT4x39DnHJ/?igshid=1u7ru7zk8ps6y

[dcsnyder]

Rocco got Nutin Ta Lose… except TV time. So he’s behaving. Btw I love this album. #DredScott #BreakinCombs #hiphop #rap #vinyl #wax #record #rockinRoccoShow https://www.instagram.com/p/CbanEWZrso5/?utm_medium=tumblr

[nekaybaaw]

I didn’t make this up nor create the definition. Maybe at some point YOU will listen and implement the correct moves! #black #blackslawdictionary #blackthecolor #misnomerblack #14thamendment #slavery #theblackcodes #nationality #dredscott (at Moreno Valley M Mountain) https://www.instagram.com/p/CA_Fo3DFF_s/?igshid=6lwzxpsubdc3

[beautifultheoristbouquetworld]

#walkwithyou

[jp-lovecraft]

Influential albums in my life #26. Adriana Evans releases her first lp on #LoudRecords in 1997. Pretty sure she was the only singer in the roster. A couple of singles were released but most peeps didn’t notice this sublime piece of #BoomBap #NeoSoul. Introspective lyrics, rich vocals and gorgeous rhythms over rugged drums. Production was handled by #HipHop artist #DredScott. It’s a shame this lp is so hard to find nowadays, I guess it was hard to be subtle and shine when your label mates were #WuTang, #MobbDeep, #BigPun, #SadatX... #vintage #soul #r&b #90s #thc #cannabis #craftbeer https://www.instagram.com/p/CABbXftBr0t/?igshid=zo3sz20t9c4a

[justisborred]

Posted @withregram • @wearepushblack History books won’t teach you about one of the most important cases in American history. That’s because Dred Scott v. Sanford proved just how insidious the #criminaljusticesystem is to us - and how far from freedom we really are. Swipe to read how the decision decided on this day in 1857 set the stage for Black America’s future. #PushBlack #TodayInBlackHistory –––– Follow @wearepushblack for more daily #BlackHistory . . . . . #DredScott #SCOTUS #ScottVSanford #WhiteSupremacy #slavery #Blackhistory365 #shareblackstories #blackhistoryfacts #blackhistoryeveryday #blackliberation #criminaljustice #criminaljusticereform https://www.instagram.com/p/B9aq8T4Hrrh/?igshid=1rpl5d4xsiri