Supreme Court Finally Ending Racism in Education

Regardless of how much some people may despise President George Bush, the one very important byproduct of his election was that he nominates candidates for the U. S. Supreme Court.

In recent months, the court has finally made rational decisions regarding a number of issues that return us to a course of sanity. Many middle-of-the-road and conservative Americans have watched with horror as the Democrats and liberals within their ranks have twisted the Constitution and the very foundations of the country to achieve their goals of “utopia.”

On June 28^th, the Supreme Court ruled that the Seattle school system’s racial tiebreaker portion of its school assignment plan was unconstitutional.

Despite the clear direction, hundreds of school districts around the country have used race to assign students in an effort to develop the "perfect mix" of racial groups.

If a Seattle high school were deemed to have "too many" white students or "too many" minorities, the district would "fix" the problem by turning students away from those schools if they were the "wrong" color. Nearly 100 black students, in fact, were denied admission to the high school of their choice because of the color of their skin.

The court noted that school officials in Seattle and Louisville, Ky., imposed a quota system for students based on race, with little research of alternatives. They never examined race-neutral ways of assigning students and achieving diversity.

In the 1950s, such an action would have prompted marches and protests. In the 21st century, such discrimination against individuals somehow had become politically correct. The high court rightly applied the Equal Protection Clause of our Constitution, which protects the individual rights of these students -- just as it has protected individual rights in Brown v. Board of Education.

We have to remember the 1954 landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision hopefully ended ANY FORM of segregation within school systems, when the high court ordered schools not to deny entrance to students based on the color of their skin.

It is really fascinating (and also nauseating) to read the flowery, tear-jerking arguments offered by academia and the liberal community in response to this decision. You might think the country has reverted to slavery.

A partial quote from Chief Justice John Roberts majority opinion provides the fundamental answer to the issue:

“… For schools that never segregated on the basis of race, such as Seattle, or that have removed the vestiges of past segregation, such as Jefferson County (Kentucky), the way to achieve a system of determining admission to the public schools on a nonracial basis…. Is to stop assigning students on a racial basis.“

But the last line of his opinion summarizes the issue in a nutshell:

“The way to stop discrimination is to stop discriminating on a basis of race.”

Let us not forget if a Democrat is elected president in 2008, we can kiss off any more rational decisions by the Supreme Court once members start to retire.