Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Throws Cheap Shots at Her Colleagues for Their Ruling on Affirmative Action
Her rhetoric is beneath the office she holds. Truly disgraceful!
After the Supreme Court struck down the unconstitutional Affirmative Action, new Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson had the following vile response, berating her colleagues on the Supreme Court.
With let-them-eat-cake obliviousness, today, the majority pulls the ripcord and announces 'colorblindness for all' by legal fiat. But deeming race irrelevant in law does not make it so in life and having so detached itself from this country's actual past and present experiences, the Court has now been lured into interfering with the crucial work that UNC and other institutions of higher learning are doing to solve America's real-world problems. No one benefits from ignorance. Although formal race-linked legal barriers are gone, race still matters to the lived experience of all Americans in innumerable ways, and today’s ruling makes things worse, not better. The best that can be said of the majority’s perspective is that is proceeds (ostrich-like) from the hope that preventing consideration of race will end racism.
The Supreme Court ruling against Affirmative Action was not done by legal fiat. There is absolutely nothing arbitrary about it, as the 14th Amendment to the Constitution required this ruling, even though it was long overdue. Isn’t colorblindness for all what the left has been working toward for decades? Don’t they want to end the idea of people making decisions based on someone’s skin color once and for all? It would seem that getting into a college or landing a decent job based on one’s merits, rather than skin color would be the goal of all people. The Supreme Court did not deem race irrelevant, but the Constitution did a long time ago. Skin color must not interfere with the application of “equal protection under the law,” regardless of someone’s past and present life experiences. Justice Brown Jackson did make one very valid point in her comments, when she stated, “no one benefits from ignorance.” I could not agree more.
The left claims that affirmative action “levels the playing field,” when in reality, it tilts the field in favor of certain races over other races, allowing for reverse discrimination on many occasions. If this is not the case, why were college entrance standards lowered for minorities as opposed to whites? As a previous small business owner back in 2005, Affirmative Action allowed me to be discriminated against simply because I was not part of a minority group. I was denied a free training class on the use of QuickBooks through my local Chamber of Commerce, because I was a white male. My cost was $250, while the cost for minorities was on the house. Now, the left will state that I deserved this treatment for past discrimination against minorities, particularly blacks. Well, I can assure you that I have never discriminated against anyone of any color in my entire life. Can you imagine the uproar if my local Chamber of Commerce had charged $250 to minorities while allowing white males in for free? Why is it OK to reverse the situation simply because my skin is white? Isn’t discrimination, discrimination, or is it revenge in my case for being a white male?
Justice Brown Jackson is completely misguided, and her comment below is evidence of such.
Universities like UNC create pathways to upward mobility for long excluded and historically disempowered racial groups. Our Nation’s history more than justifies this course of action.
Our nation’s history is just that…history. And you cannot change it by punishing any racial group within current society for evil actions that happened decades or even hundreds of years ago. If she truly feels that our history justifies this course of action, what other historical shortcomings can be righted by attacking or discriminating against certain groups, or individuals? The answer is…none! Don’t get me wrong here…I am well aware that the United States has had warts in the past, and still has some warts today. Our history is marked with good and evil, and I am sure that our future will be too, but we cannot let the evil history of discrimination allow for more discrimination against anyone, no matter what their skin color is. Thanks to this ruling, Affirmative Action can now reside in the dustbin of history, which is exactly where it belongs.