Supreme Court Returns to its Racist Roots….. Nothing New Here

America according the lyrics by Big Bill Broozy

“What you gonna do about the old Jim Crow?
Now if you was white, should be all right
If you was brown, could stick around
But if you black, whoa brother, git back git back git back”

And so the conservative, oh so pious republican appointees on the Supreme Court affirmed Big Bill’s observation in it’s ruling on Affirmative Action.

The ruling ignored our history of slavery, Jim Crow, segregation and white’s only advantages for 250 years and declared that “magically” America has done away with the lasting multi-generational effects of our history, which they also no longer wish to acknowledge or for that matter include in our history.

Justice Ketanji Jackson Brown’s dissent puts it into the correct historical and legal perspective.

2 responses to “Supreme Court Returns to its Racist Roots….. Nothing New Here

  1. The definition of racism is “Discrimination or prejudice based on race.” Affirmative action gives preference to qualified groups (which may include racial and ethnic minorities, women, older people, people with disabilities, and some veterans) in job hiring, admission to institutions of higher education, the awarding of government contracts, and other social benefits.

    Your argument is in favor of racism, not against it.

  2. Yes, in the past 50 years or so we’ve made some progress against racism and inequality, thanks to the Warren Court’s rulings and the Civil Rights acts of the 60’s.

    But the right to wealth, access to jobs, land ownership, gun ownership, health care and education etc,etc, etc, had literally hundreds of years of white preference and worse i.e. slavery. And during the time that the Supreme Court passively co-existed and at times actively supported “white preference” and racism. So racial preferences is not a new concept in America. And the Supreme Court aided and abetted It for much of it’s history. It was literally written into the constitution. So to me correcting past grotesque discrimination is a valuable and righteous act and the limited movement (over 50 years or so) doesn’t seem nearly enough.

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