The decision of the Supreme Court to end the use of race in college admissions was not unexpected. Indeed, the rulings in cases involving Harvard and the University of North Carolina ended decades of muddled 5-4 decisions. Yet, President Joe Biden seemed to go into full attack mode and actually claimed that the Court gutted the constitutional guarantee that “all men and women are created equal.” In declaring that this Court was not “normal,” Biden further insisted that these admissions decisions and the Dobbs abortion decision reversed the gains that “we fought a war over in 1860” to secure.
In an interview on MSNBC’s “Deadline: White House,” President Biden accused the Court of ignoring what “the Constitution says: We hold these truths to be self-evident, all men and women are created equal, endowed by their creator.” That is actually a reference to the Declaration of Independence, but it was the substance of the point that was so baffling.
In barring the use of race in admissions, the Court believed that it was protecting that very guarantee. It erased what the Court viewed as a glaring anomaly in its cases in the treatment of racial discrimination in education as opposed to employment. It was the capstone opinion for Chief Justice John Roberts who in 2017 declared: “The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.” In 2006, Roberts added: “It is a sordid business, this divvying us up by race.”
The Court was enforcing what it saw as the “self-evident” guarantee referenced in the Declaration and later protected in the Fourteenth Amendment. The Court reaffirmed that all men and women are created equal and will be treated equally in both education and employment.
The President is not alone in such hyperbole. Figures like Whoopi Goldberg actually asked whether the decision means that we are “heading to no women in colleges soon? Who knows.”
We actually do know. An opinion rejecting the use of racial classification to determine who goes to college could not be read by anyone as endorsing the exclusion of other groups.
The truly baffling statement was Biden’s claims over the Civil War. By leaving questions like abortion to the states, Biden claims that the Court was reversing what was gained in that war. The criticism came in response to an opinion insisting that there is no place for racial discrimination in higher education. That would hardly seem an argument that would be embraced by the Confederacy.
President Biden has long taken liberties with our constitutional history. Many of us have repeatedly objected to claims that he has made in areas like the Second Amendment. One of his most repeated lines is that the Second Amendment was passed with the understanding that certain guns would be banned and adding “You couldn’t buy a cannon, when in fact the Second Amendment passed.”
That happens to be utterly false. Yet, even after the Washington Post declared Biden’s understanding of the Second Amendment to be false, he has continued to make the same false assertion over and over again.
Now Biden has moved on to the Civil War and his revisionism is about as subtle as Sherman’s scorched “March to the Sea.”
The Civil War did not end federalism or states rights. It denied the right of the states to secede and ultimately fulfilled the pledge to equality first made in the Declaration of Independence.
One can have good-faith disagreements on whether the use of racial criteria is constitutional affirmative action or unconstitutional racial discrimination. However, Biden is belittling our prior struggles for equality with these sweeping and erroneous claims.
In his interview, the President also insisted that one has to “look at how it’s ruled on a number of issues that are — have been precedent for 50, 60 years sometimes, and that’s what I meant by not normal.”
In reality, the Court’s decisions on affirmative action in education have been muddled and conflicted for decades. In 1977, in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, the Court barred affirmative action in higher education. However, it allowed some consideration of race as part of a holistic admissions process.
In the decades that followed, the Court remained sharply divided. By 2003, the Court was ready to issue the very decision that it issued this week. However, in Grutter v. Bollinger, then-Justice Sandra Day O’Connor supplied the fifth vote to uphold the use of race by the University of Michigan. Yet, O’Connor wrote that the court “expects that 25 years from now, the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary to further the interest approved today.” That was roughly 20 years ago.
It is also ironic to hear the President bewailing the reversal of precedent since the greatest advance in racial equality was the reversal of Plessy v. Ferguson and the doctrine of “separate but equal.” That was the governing precedent from 1894 to 1954, but few denounced the Supreme Court for reversing the precedent in Brown v. Board of Education. It was a decision to eliminate different treatment on the basis for race.
This Court did indeed overturn long-standing cases but these have long been areas characterized by closely and fiercely divided 5-4 and plurality decisions.
The President also asserted that “the vast majority of the American people don’t agree with a lot of the decisions this court is making.” The majority clearly opposed the Dobbs ruling, but that is not the case on the affirmative action ruling. Polls have consistently shown (including this week) that the majority of the public does not support the use of race in college admissions. Indeed, even in the most liberal states like California, voters have repeatedly rejected affirmative action in admissions.
We should have a robust and passionate debate over these issues. Yet, a president should be seeking to facilitate that dialogue rather than distorting and weaponizing our shared history. It is a continuation of his prior declarations that members of Congress opposing his election reforms to block state laws are voting with “Jefferson Davis” and the Confederacy. Despite the laws in states like Georgia being upheld as constitutional, Biden declared them a return to the “Jim Crow” South based on distorted accounts of those laws. The claim was again historically and legally ridiculous even if one opposed these state laws.
We should not allow the President’s constitutional and historical distortions to become, to use his description of the Court, “normal.” We have fought hard to address the scourge of slavery and racism in our country. That struggle is continuing but we cannot address those problems in the future by distorting our past.
This is a corrected version. A short version appears on Fox.com.
I got nothin’. The modern left are totalitarian scum, and that’s all there is to it. The worst aspect is their disdain for our intelligence, and indeed, their hubris has always been off-putting to me, but they have cranked it all up so high they broke the meter.
I used to be very fair-minded; to my dismay that seems to be rare these days. Anyone still voting for this regime is either unfathomably stupid, ignorant, or infantile or some combination thereof. Unacceptable, and at this point, probably unforgivable, too.
@James: Re: “Anyone still voting for this regime is either unfathomably stupid, ignorant, or infantile or some combination thereof.” The 2020 electoral vote was 302/232. and 51.3% of the national popular vote went to Biden. We shall see if unfathomable stupidity, ignorance, and a proclivity for or tolerance of moral and ethical turpitude in many walks of live prevails in 2024.
Oh look , someone here thinks bidens election was legit. Takes all kinds i gather.
“I was just thanking the — anyway, I started off without you, and I sold a lot of state secrets and a lot of very important things that we shared.”
“We have plans to build a railroad from the Pacific all the way across the Indian Ocean,”
“God save the Queen, man.”
The list of Biden’s brilliant statements as the leader of the free world just keep coming and those who are pretend he is doing a good job is bizarre. They only reason they even pretend is that the alternative is Donald Trump. They don’t care that he should be in a nursing home and is hurting all Americans and citizens from around the world with his harmful policies that are being foisted on the public by his handlers. Regarding his statements to the PM of India, he said, “All kidding aside.” This is something that the President should never kid about in front of the world’s cameras and with a man who is a leader of a powerful nation of over on billion people and a nation that we desperately need in our corner with the rise in power and stature of the CCP.
The present state of affairs is nothing less than insane and appears by all evidence to be coordinated PSYWAR against this nation, its tenants and its people.
No matter how jaded Biden makes me I just can’t keep up.
We shame our country by putting forth this lowly worm.
Our shame is far greater than, say, the British suffering Prince Harry. Harry is a birth defect. He is not the fault of England. Blame Harry on Harry, Meghan, Charles and Diana, not England.
But Biden is our fault, just as Hitler was Germany’s fault and Diblasio NYC’s fault, and Lori Lightfoot Chicago’s, and Merrick Garland Biden’s fault.
For the Biden blight we must blame 50 years of mindless Delaware voters, the bribery of Big Banks, the insidiousness of Barack Obama, the corrupt hate-Americanism of media, the criminals who stole the 2020 election, and every person who voted legally or unlawfully, knowingly or unwittingly against Trump.
I recall the Democrat Party after Watergate distributing bumper stickers: “Don’t blame me, I voted for McGovern.”
Where is the RNC when we need 100 million “Don’t blame me, I voted for Trump” or “Don’t blame me, I did not vote for Biden” bumper stickers?
Well, as for me, I risk my life when I walk outdoors in Bad Ass Blue Country and proudly wear either my 2016 MAGA hat or my 2020 “Keep America Great” hat. In 2024, as my hat trick, I’ll wear Trump’s third hat.
Don’t blame me, I voted for Trump.
I say, “Orange Man Good.”
I would never vote for Biden except to put him in jail!
Those bumper stickers don’t exist because conservatives don’t want their cars vandalized by leftist lunatics, including Democrat politicians.
Re the risk of vandalism, you may be right. But there is a new breed of conservatives on the rise. Not the unprincipled, materialistic, cut and run Big Bottom Banker Boys of Wall Street. (They’ve all gone over.) But rather, hard-nose patriots, middle class men and women of deep principle and the courage of their convictions. (i.e., Trump supporters.) I mentioned that I routinely wear my Trump hat (even after “the Insurrection”.) I live in the heavy DemocRat/hate Trump DC suburbs where Trump Republicans are unsafe. I kept a large “Impeach Clinton!” sticker on the rear window of my SUV for 3 years before Congress impeached and tried the SOB, and I suffered no damage to my vehicle.
You’re hardcore. Keep it up.
I’m doing pretty good at regularly wearing my FJB baseball hat around my deep blue ‘hood because honest people know by now there is no other appropriate sentiment for the guy.
Joe Biden is a criminal.
Rep. James Comer just said Biden’s racketeering operation was essentially organized crime.
All the DOJ/FBI/IRS officials knew exactly what Biden has been up to for YEARS.
They all chose to overlook it and instead run a protection racket for Biden, Inc.
They chose to use all their resources to go after Trump and MAGA calling us “extremists” as they threaten, intimidate and try to silence us. It’s insane how corrupt our government actually is.
Two things should be crystal clear by now: the Democrats have zero knowledge of US history; and they lie…all the time about everything.
GioCon
I think what happens, the radicals are forced into actively ignoring or attempting to re-write history. Because history shatters all the radical Dem agenda. The Ratifying of the Constitution is premised on a very limited, federal govt with few, enumerated powers. 75% of todays federal budget has no constitutional basis. Federalism was murdered by SCOTUS during FDR,
GioCon,
Right.
Most Democrats dont know they were the party of the KKK.
Of course, the most vocal opposition came from, not only this totally clueless and unaware President, but the race mongers in the Black community whom, like Whoopie Goldberg in the recent past, are of the opinion that anything to do with race is all about THEM. There was only one black Conservative voice who I heard recognizing that the action was brought by the Asian student community at Harvard, a representative of which enjoyed an all too brief comment on one outlet. The rest of the Asian community unfortunately appears to have either opted to remain silent, or has not been sought out by any of the media for comment. I trust they will continue distinguish themselves in their fields of endeavor going forward. As to Harvard, the class of 2026 has now, and conveniently, nearly doubled the number of Asians admitted over Black applicants. 27.9/15.2 %.’Holy ‘handwriting on the wall, Batman!!” Nonetheless, the non-white student body comprises 49.4% of the class, HIspanics, Native Americans and Hawaiians included.
Last week, Georgina Mendoza, daughter of Mexican immigrants, graduated Valedictorian in her Colonial Heights, Virginia high school, also graduated with an Associates Degree from her local community college, worked part-time at her local grocery store, and lives in a region that is 16% Black with a crime index of 4 a (safer than 4% of U.S. neighborhoods.)
“It’s truly an honor to be Valedictorian for Petersburg High School Class of 2023,” Mendoza said. “I really wanted to get those credits and get the head start cause I always knew wanted to go to college. So I just thought it would be great to have those two years of general courses out of the way.
Mendoza’s success has of course made her family very proud. “She works very hard,” Georgina’s mother Emelia Mendoza said
https://www.wtvr.com/news/local-news/petersburg-valedictorian-georgina-mendoza-
Estovir,
A very inspiring story.
If this decision is so great for higher education, why did they carve out an exception for the military? Some organizations are more equal than others?
Read the bill baby. Its short with small words. Your average 5th grader you play with can explain it to you. (You could consider the title. )
Why do the military need to keep race in mind and higher education not?
“All men are created equal” is contained in the Declaration of Independence. It is not in the Constitution.
Sort of makes you wonder what the president’s reading list is (if any). His pronouncements are more like Animal House than the Constitution or the Declaration of Independence. Maybe he ascribes to the “All animals are created equal but some are more equal than others”.
AOC seems to be tuned in on the same frequency since she was wondering why the Supreme Court did not outlaw legacy admissions. Not a bad idea, from my point of view, but it seems to me that there is something in procedure and law that says you have to have a case before the Court before they can rule on it. She also said that the new Harvard classes would be 70% white, which is about the same percentage as the Country as a whole, approximately. Then there is Justice Brown who sees race everywhere. Chuck Schumer who seems to be developing the same dementia as Biden.
And lastly Mayor Adams of New York City, who feels that, as Mayor, he deserves absolute respect. He then calls a rent control activist who fights for her community and rent holders for decades, a “plantation owner” (whose family is Jewish and escaped to New York from the Holocaust in the 1940’s).
There is clearly a mind virus out there. Only time will tell if it is curable or will, eventually, bring down the whole Republic. That is strictly a political opinion and not a medical one.
GEB,
The Democrat party is a reflection of the decline of society and our economy.
And they are the cause.
Majority Of Americans Believe Country Is In A Cultural, Economic Breakdown: POLL
https://dailycaller.com/2023/06/29/majority-americans-believe-country-cultural-economic-breakdown-poll/
Read the one about NYC mayor Adams. Another example.
“Majority Of Americans Believe Country Is In [An Induced] Cultural, Economic Breakdown”
So much of the nonsense is being orchestrated.
To the “Liker”, do you “Like” that it is being orchestrated or do you “Like” my observation because you agree with my assessment but dislike, as I do, the manipulation to induce a cultural and economic breakdown? Maybe there are other reasons? I am curious and interested.
Anyway, I find some “Likes” interesting because they do not always have to signal agreement.
More like Animal Farm.
There’s always a little fiction involved in these discussions. I guess it makes sense to refer to an idea or position that “Biden,” has, but it might be better to refer to the “Biden Administration.” Joseph Biden’s has never had an original idea in his life or taken any position for which there are political consequences. He certainly wouldn’t comprehend concepts of constitutional law.
Dan, you are of course 100% correct. Joe is literally a puppet. Spouting radical ideas of others.
What do you mean? I’m not inclined to think he is ideologically possessed and thus parroting.
“We hold these truths to be self evident…” is from the Declaration of Independence, not the Bill of Rights.
turley pulled a biden
The last paragraph of the good professor’s post is succinctly powerful and true. BRAVO Professor Turley!
Two notes that I make on my own:
(1) Ironically, the Court unequivocally confirms that all must be treated equally, and the diehard protesters (e.g., DEI activists demanding Equality!)…..are protesting the decision!
(2) Ch.Justice Roberts stated that “At the same time, as all parties agree, nothing in this opinion should be construed as prohibiting universities from considering an applicant’s discussion of how race affected his or her life, be it through discrimination, inspiration, or otherwise…
Methinks there might be a flooding of applications with such “essayic” additions; I’m hoping the admissions boards include vetters.
Lin,
I was wondering to what lengths are colleges and universities going to go to use some kind of stealth means of discrimination.
It does make one wonder a persons mindset to look at a application and say, “Oh, you are Asian. Your application goes to the bottom.”
Every medical school in America has an Associate Dean of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, where they “earn” a 6 figure income. Having a BMI > 35 is a requirement for the position. Possessing an EdD degree is bonus. Universities have no intention of dismissing these
charlatansadmins. Like water that finds a leak in a pipe, these “Deans” will discriminate applicants with Woke religious fervor while calling it “inclusivity”, naturallyThe worst thing about these rubrics is that medical students today are better versed on defund the police, systemic racism and pro-abort talking points, than on molecular mechanisms of basic healthy processes. Ask these kids to provide possible mechanisms to explain why vaccines might result in dissimilar results, they will suggest with a straight face “inequity” as opposed to say something scientific like polymorphisms in Toll-Like Receptors, a topic that is more than timely yet decades old. These Woke standards are going to kill alot of people. Maybe that is part of the plan.
Woke Religion >>> Science
Banus S, et al. Toll-like receptor 4 polymorphism associated with the response to whole-cell pertussis vaccination in children from the KOALA study. Clin Vaccine Immunol. 2007 Oct;14(10):1377-80. doi: 10.1128/CVI.00175-07.
Estovir-
Thats because the accrediting commissions require DEI and CRT and on and on. Something else Ron Desantis needs to eliminate. Trump is not even sure what an accrediting commission is.
One person in another publication’s comment section said now minority applicants could use AI to craft a brilliant essay about how they overcame racial oppression. Boom! They’re in based on the essay, not race.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
There the Declaration of Independence, not the Bill of Rights. And the Dotard-In-Chief edited it to boot.
That’s. Oops. Too early to proof.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, all men and women are created equal, endowed by their creator.” That is actually the Bill of Rights, but it was the substance of the point that was so baffling.”
Wasn’t that from the Declaration of independence?
Thersites,
Yep.
Even Mediaite is calling him out on it,
Biden Mixes Up Constitution With Declaration of Independence While Criticizing the Supreme Court
https://www.mediaite.com/politics/biden-mixes-up-constitution-with-declaration-of-independence-while-criticizing-the-supreme-court/
Then, he does this,
Biden Awkwardly Walks Off MSNBC Set While He’s Still On Air
https://www.mediaite.com/biden/biden-awkwardly-walks-off-msnbc-set-while-hes-still-on-air/
Funny is it not?
Here we have a president who wants to discriminate against Asian Americans.
To prevent them from entering a college or university not based on their merit but their skin color.
UpstateFarmer, You’re of course aware that Asian American admissions at Harvard exceed those of Black people? The great and sudden concern for Asians seems hypocritical from a group trying to reduce international admissions from some Asian countries and keep them from buying land.
https://www.collegefactual.com/colleges/harvard-university/student-life/diversity/#:~:text=The%20full-time%20Harvard%20undergraduate,women%2C%20and%2049%25%20men
https://asiatimes.com/2021/07/us-blocking-more-chinese-students-from-its-universities/
To be fair, the ban cited in the example was started under Trump but continued under Biden. Where is your concern?
enigma: I’m beginning to think that you spend your time searching for media HEADLINES that seemingly comport with whatever point you are trying to make. Perhaps you should read the very. first. opening. paragraph. in the article you eagerly cited:
“A year-long ban on Chinese students receiving US study visas due to Covid-19 ended in May, but many are still being rejected by US authorities because of their reputed ties to military-linked Chinese universities and institutes – a ban enacted by the previous Donald Trump administration and continued under Joe Biden.”
Lin,
Oh! Facts!
And China buying property in the US as they are seen as a national security threat. That is a no brainer.
I read it, does “military-linked institutions” sound even a little vague to you?
When it comes to China, no.
BTW, I have been there. Had family who used to live there for just shy of 10 years.
So, you are okay with one getting admitted to a university based on the color of ones skin? Not their merit?
You are working on the assumption that unqualified candidates are being admitted because of race which is much more likely to be true of legacy applicants.
I never said “unqualified.”
That would be you putting words into my mouth.
What I am “assuming” is there are two qualified candidates. One is going to be discriminated against even if being the better candidate (test scoring), based off skin color.
I said nothing about legacy applicants.
Upstate, some have better qualifications than others. Sometimes it is best to enter a lesser school and be encouraged by being in the top half rather than a higher rated university in the bottom half which can lead to discouragement.
We are seeing this problem in those who are admitted based on affirmative action or legacy admission. The legacy admission has a fall back which is generally a lot of money.
UpstateFarmer, you did say nothing about legacy applicants which gives a significant advantage to white children of alumni whether qualified or not. You also aren’t considering the historical discrimination against minorities because of their color. You have no desire to solve that problem, just ignore it.
Race problems involving the enormous dole of government benefits would disappear if the government stopped giving away free stuff to POC’s and if we were to get beyond race and elect a real POC President.
Ah, the audacity of hope!
Paladin, there is no government benefir that white people don’t benefit more than POCs.
“white people don’t benefit more”
Start thinking in terms of ratios and percentages.
Enigma:
You’re spot on about “legacy applicants” which is really big donor legacy applicants but I’ve seen it applied to all races of applicants if the parents have the cash. It’s wrong but not legally prohibited by the Equal Protection Clause but it should be. I’ll take the venial sins of meritocracy over the mortal ones of Affirmative Patronization … er … Action.
mespo, legacy applicants do apply to all races including at the HBCU I attended (though white applicants can and do get admitted assuming they meet standard qualifications) However, at the instutions that used to totally exclude certain minorities, the vast number of legacies are white, perpetuating whiteness if you will. Come 2045 or whenever white people are a minority in this country, they will still have disproportionate representation in every instution of power,
“perpetuating whiteness if you will.”
Your attitude is racist . Many that are in the lowest quintile rise up and end up in the top quintile of earnings. Many in the top quintile fall.
What is perpetuating lack of blackness is your attitude of victimhood and division. Victimhood doesn’t lead to success. Many recent Asians who are not white find their children in the top economic quintiles. Blacks from outside the US do the same. Keep up your attitude, it helps keep your favored segment of society down. I have successful black friends that weren’t born rich. They disagree with you.
S. Meyer,
My family has experienced discrimination first hand.
We refused to be seen a victims.
What we did was work harder, save more, spent less, studied harder and succeed.
Anyone of any race, economic background can do it.
The first step is not to allow them to make you into a victim.
“We refused to be seen a victims.”
Upstate, you are normal. Enigma is not. I saw the great playwright Tom Stoppard’s Leopoldstadt on Broadway. It was a phenomenal performance worth seeing, but it is closing in a day or so. Tom Stoppard didn’t know he was born Jewish and escaped with his parents as a child born in Czeslovokia. Though not historical, it is based partly on what he later in life learned.
If you see the play, you start with a prosperous Austrian Jewish family finally being accepted into Viennese society when everything stopped in 1938. The last scene is in 1955, where a young Englishman discovers he, like Tom Stoppard, now an English gentleman, was a Jew from that family. They show him his family tree, and everyone was dead, killed in the camps, or died on the way to them.
That family is not much different from my wife’s family, where almost everyone was killed. I think this fictionalized family moved to Vienna to escape the pogroms in the east, which decimated my maternal family about a generation earlier.
My wife and her parents, who survived the camps (Auschwitz), were discriminated against in the US, just like my family was. None came with much more than the shirt on their backs, but they didn’t look backward like Enigma. They looked forward like your family and made sure their children succeeded, and all of them did.
I find Enigma’s continuous reliance on victimhood a disgrace because it is he and people like him who destroy the futures of black children in the ghettos. I look at those children and feel pain when they die in the streets like animals. It is not the children’s fault but the fault of those that use them as ideological weapons, always accusing others of causing harm to them instead of looking at themselves.
you did say nothing about legacy applicants which gives a significant advantage to
whitechildren of alumni whether qualified or not.enigma, we cannot solve a problem rooted in racism by using racism. It’s like having an anti-bullying policy that says the only way to end bullying is to be a bully. Your entire argument is equity and not equality focused. Equality of opportunity should be the principle we agree on. Equity is an entirely different thing. Solve this problem: How do we make things equitable without infringing rights of innocent people?
Why must we “make things equitable?”
It seems self defeating to punish merit if one wishes to instill excellence and reward discipline.
Why must we “make things equitable?”
Paladin, I’m not saying we must. It is quite literally impossible to do without infringing rights. I cannot see how we can repair the damage from history without inflicting damage on the present. The best we can do is learn how that damage happened and make changes so that it doesn’t happen again.
My objections with efforts to “make things equitable” and to “repair the damage of history” are 1) the political and legal impossibilty of defining “things” and “equitable” and “repair” and “damage,” and “history”; 2) the moral and economic costs to and collateral damage on those living and yet to be born in making those definitions; and 3) the costs to them of carrying out those utopian missions.
Frightening, really.
The stuff that totalitarian nightmares are made of.
Thus were born the regimes and the misery of the epochs of Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Castro, Pol Pot, Obama and Biden.
Best left untried.
We are then in agreement.
Olly, it sounds like you’re in favor of retaining legacy approvals which favor white people at PWI’s (Primarily White Institutions).
I’m not surprised enigma. I could have said anything and you’d have heard racism.
Being a trained dog only looks good on a dog.
All they hear is “racism” because “racism” is an eminently lucrative industry in a society of dastardly denizens lacking resolve and riddled by unfounded, phantom guilt.
Pigmentation Pays!
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“[They] will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”
– Martin Luther King, Philanderer, Plagiarist, Unrepentant Sinner, General Fraud
“You have no desire to solve that problem . . .”
How do you solve the problem of racism with this glaring contradiction:
I want a color blind society.
I promote color conscious policies.
America did very little in terms of achieving a color blind society until forced to. Actually read many of the comments on this board and tell me people have stopped seeing color.
Enigma, you have achieved on this forum what you so desperately sought: attention. We have seen all sorts of crazies on here, but your angry black male shtick likely would have a DSM 5 code if not for the APA being so fearful of being called racist. I’ll admit that you appear to be a handsome black man from what I could see on your low traffic volume blogs, so it follows you might consider traveling to Miami to get some girth. Nothing sadder than a black man with a small member. Who knows, after a few treatments you might gain some confidence, radiate joy so as to attract women and men, assuming you go both ways, and find your flaccid race card shtick to be as limp as they come…or not
because i care for you.
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It does give you a sense of confidence you didn’t have before,” he says. “I’m not a girl, but I can imagine a chick with a boob job. If I had a rack on me, I’d be very confident. It’s the same thing. I’m finally glad there’s something for us.”
In the matter of Enigma: I have not followed Enigma’s comments on Turley or read Enigma’s blog, and I will not bother with that now. That would not change a thing.
Yet I worry about Enigma; I feel his pain. I want it to end, but what can I do? I am concerned about the God-awful human destruction wrought by the “angry black” syndrome. I despise the race-baiting Democrat Party politics which, since LBJ and the Sixties, has thrust that racial syndrome of mental sickness upon the blacks of our nation. The damage to the psyche of young blacks is apparent. How does a black boy or girl taught since birth the lie that they are victims escape being enslaved by that lie? Escape seems almost impossible, and it seems apparent now that millions of blacks do not escape harm to their minds.
Racism is not the cause of Enigma’s injury; systemic race baiting politics is the cause. I’m not a therapist. Even if I were, millions of black men and women cannot possibly find their cure on a psychology couch or in self-help psychology books or in learning to love a country they were taught to hate. The educational healing process is too complicated and slow, the true healers too few, and the logistics are impossible.
Estovir, this is the level you’ve sunk to? Belittling dick size and questioning my sexuality? Would your mother be proud?
Paladin writes:
Racism is not the cause of Enigma’s injury
Enigma is the cause of Enigma’s self-inflicted injury.
A friend of mine many years ago tried to commit suicide. A black, young, attractive up and coming pharmacist, raised and lived in Liberty City (black area of Miami), she was also a closet lesbian. One day I noticed slashes on her wrists. I asked her point blank. We had a long talk. She then asked me to talk to her mother with whom she lived and the mother’s boyfriend of 20+ years. The mother was a rabid black muslim convert Louis Farrakhan follower, who had thanked me for guiding her daughter into medicine. All of us met at their home. The mother refused to accept her daughter as a lesbian, but she was unaware she had tried to commit suicide. At that I turned to the mother’s boyfriend who was not fond of the mother’s rabid black jihad against society. The boyfriend, the daughter and I descended on the mother. I told her she had a choice to make: love her daughter as she is or lose her. The mother’s boyfriend assured me he would see to it that he and his girlfriend (the mother) would have a sobering discussion about her priorities. The mother was in tears, thanked me, and I exited so that they could continue the conversation. It had a happy ending.
A black friend of mine in Miami is a handsome, muscular, well spoken, elegant gay man, held a Master’s Degree in hospitality management, and ran one of the most popular restaurants in Miami. I used to hire the restaurant to host medical meetings for area physicians, threw thousands of dollars at the restaurant with the budget my employer provided me (Big Pharma) and got to know the manager. We also trained at the same gym. He had lost his eye as a teen during a family meeting whereby he told them he was gay. His father had abandoned him as a child, so his maternal uncle was his father figure. It seems his uncle went into a rage when my friend told his family and knocked out his eye. He called me a few weeks ago to tell me he had left the hospitality management industry and became a Nurse. His mother and uncle never apologized for the loss of his eye, still belittled him, and continually put the screws to him. He is the nicest, most polished man I have ever known despite his devastating family upbringing. He called me to thank me for believing in him and encouraging him to reach for the stars. I had written his essay for his nursing school application. He earned his RN, BSN degree and is now pursuing an MSN to be a Nurse Practitioner. I could not be more proud of him. He is still very much alone and likely will never create or find a family of his own.
The problem with people like Enigma, be they white, hispanic, black, asian, whatever their flavor, is that they lay burdens on others that they themselves can not carry. Likewise for the family members of my 2 friends in the aforementioned story. Jesus Christ excoriated the Jews of His time for doing precisely that: laid burdens on others that they could not carry themselves. In my book, following the example of Christ, they deserve scorn, mockery, ridicule and to be shamed, which is what I did to the mother of my friend who was living “in sin” with her boyfriend, while laying a burden of holiness she herself could not live.
Most of my patients in clinic are minorities. I have very few white patients. What strikes me the most about black Marxists like Enigma who rail against the system, call for a revolution, an uprising, to get what is “rightfully” theirs, is that they are never in the trenches with the people they claim to represent. Like Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Louis Farrakhan, Maxine Waters, Sheila Jackson Lee, and all of the many other race hustlers, they wouldnt be caught dead smelling like the sheep they supposedly are leading to the promised land. My Hispanic patients are a people of the diaspora just like me. Refugees from broken countries, they come to America seeking a better future. Always, without fail, when they come to my clinic, they are accompanied by a relative. Always. They always express gratitude, never come at me with clenched fists, a chip on their shoulder or a “I got nothing I didn’t deserve” arrogance.
My black patients are poor, also broken but often alone. Often at the end of their rope, I ask myself “where is their community, their support system, their families, their neighbors?”
I’ll close with this. I recall a story about a woman. She was a wife and a mother of a large household, who complained that the family members often expressed they had the answers to all of the world’s problems. When it came to household chores, washing dishes, cleaning after themselves, they were never available. Urban legend has it that St Francis of Assisi once said, “preach the Gospel at all times, use words seldom”.
I’m “Paladin,” and I did NOT write the recent comment which begins:
“Paladin writes:
Racism is not the cause of Enigma’s injury
Enigma is the cause of Enigma’s self-inflicted injury.
A friend of mine many years ago tried to commit suicide.”
I don’t know who wrote it, and I don’t know how or why the comment was falsely attributed to me. but I did not write it, and I express no opinion, agreement or disagreement as to its content.
Paladin,
When text is italicized, it means it is a quote from a previous post. When text is not italicized, the text is considered original content. The italicized quote in my post is your comment. What follows thereafter is not italicized, ergo original content, i.e. my words.
What you are not following is that Enigma is practicing a slight of hand, lying, playing the victim card, and more ad hominem, all consistent with his posts on here for years. My humorous yet kick in the groin reply was to his ad hominem comment to me yesterday on another article but the same black angry man shtick which follows, in part:
You have been brainwashed and are actively brainwashing others.
https://jonathanturley.org/2023/06/28/penn-state-sued-over-alleged-racist-attacks-on-white-professor/#comment-2300290
TL;DR: Enigma can dish it out but cant take it back. It is best to ignore such an insecure person like Enigma. He needs to grow a pair, as I have already noted.
That’s a sawgrass mass. Sorry to say that right now I lack the energy to cut a path through it.
I wrote a lengthy comment about Enigma and the “angry black” syndrome. I don’t know if it was posted. Turley’s site is exhausting to wade through re finding if and when comments are posted. I regret getting involved this week on such a reader unfriendly site.
But I share your disdain for Enigma’s style and scorn for his (their?) politics. He (they) seems not all enigmatic. Rather, the type is POC predicatble.
People must adapt to the outcomes of freedom.
Freedom does not adapt to people…
Dictatorship does.
What you’re describing is Florida where dictatorship is now a way of life.
Enigma, your stuff really is adolescent, anti-intellectual, and ad hominem. It’s merely a “You’re a racist and your grandmother wears combat boots” style, 8th grade level of early teenager argument.
Abandon the herd and try to be a singular man in thought, word and deed.
Maybe drop the “I hate white folks” defense, get out of people’s faces, spend a few years in serious study and self education (old books are good books, so read 20-30 old books/year,) join a good church (hard to find) and study the Bible (hard work) and pray to God and reflect on what Jesus taught and did (brings it all together,) find a good friend (hard to find) with better judgement and more serious than you (easy to do.)
Then report back for a thesis-on-life examination by a committee of (hopefully) your new peers.
EIB, is Florida a dictatorship because the state wishes to protect its children from those trying to sexualize them? You wish to enslave people inside of your warped ideology and racism.
“America did very little…until forced to.”
– commenter
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The Constitution and Bill of Rights do not “force” actual Americans to do anything, with the possible exception of engaging in “the pursuit of happiness.”
The “force” relating to color is patently unconstitutional, as was recently found to be the case with abortion, affirmative action and student loan forgiveness.
The Communist Manifesto, by contrast, compels the party line in every aspect of life through its mandated “DICTATORSHIP OF THE PROLETARIAT.”
The American Founders eliminated “dictatorship,” specifically the dictatorship of a monarchy.
Enigmainblack depends on color for almost everything he thinks about. The racist doesn’t know what he is. I’m not saying there isn’t prejudice, there is, against a lot of different people in a lot of different ways, but EIB’s racism is based solely on color and ignorance.
You are working on the assumption that unqualified candidates are being admitted because of race…
No enigma, that would be your assumption. It’s a very simple yes/no question that remains unanswered. are okay with one getting admitted to a university based on the color of ones skin?
Two words: Kamala Harris.
“admitted” to the vice presidency based on being a black + woman…
the entire world can plainly see she is not up to the job she was preferentially given.
Legacy candidates bring money. POC’s do not. A white friend of mine recently gave his law school millions. If he wants his kid to go there, all he has to do is pick up the phone. Another friend gave $100K to a prominent university just as his unqualified son applied there. Son was a mediocre, unpromising student but got in.
There is an important constitutional distinction between telling universities how to make money and telling them they can’t keep white kids out because they’re white.
@Anonymous: Re :”not up to the job she was preferentially given..” Good grief!! About appealing as a migraine headache, and still, she struck out at the plate before the primaries. She herself closed the door and locked it behind her. No interest or support whatsoever. This was the first, and hopefully last, ”Affirmative Action’ candidate for a shot at the Oval Office. They’d have had her come in through the 24th Amendment ‘back door’, just to have seated the first woman of color behind the desk of the Oval Office, and not even the most qualified woman of color.. Choose your neurosurgeon carefully. They’re not all Ben Carson..
I plausibly argue that The Cackler was not an “affirmative action” VP choice but that she was “affirmatively acted upon” by Obama, who hand-picked Brain Dead Joe and her and shoved her down Brain Dead Joe’s gagging throat.
Recall that 1) the Democrat Primary field was wide open, 2) BD Joe was struggling to stay alive, and 3) on national live TV The Cackler accused BD Joe of being a racist. Shortly after that Obama intervened, called all the Democrat candidates, all the candidates but BD Joe dropped out, BD Joe became the undisputed nominee by default, and BD Joe announced that The Cackler was his gal for VP.
All of that and the sequence in which it occurred is public information, except Obama’s role in hand-picking The Cackler.
(Remember Neil Diamond’s song, “Cacklin’ Kamala”?)
You say much more likely for legacy fraud , but the fact is picking people by race over qualifications ALWAYS results in a lesser accomplished person in the REAL world.
@enigmainblackcom: Re: “The great and sudden concern for Asians seems hypocritical from a group trying to reduce international admissions from some Asian countries and keep them from buying land.” The matter under discussion is NOT considerations of the clear and present danger of the CCP’s ‘Belt and Road Initiative. You have a talent for conflating your arguments which does little for your credibility particularly if you happen to be knowledgeable in the particulars of the case brought before the SCOTUS. Of that, one cannot be assured. .
Ensuring that people are treated equally = treating people unequally
Ensuring that votes cast are cast by voters = voter suppression
Abetting in the killing of 100s of thousands of eastern europeans = saving lives
Killing babies = saving lives
99% of the democrat party and all of the neo-cons in the pub party are simply a criminal organization screwing over whomever they like to make their handlers at Blackrock, etc richer and more powerful.
How in the heck can Congress do insider trading…How is it that any proceeds from that doesn’t go to charity or the US coffers – nope to the individuals.
It is time for a reckoning on the continued benefit of the people/system running this nation.
I encourage everyone to read Thomas’s concurrence, in particular his critique of Jackson’s dissent, which articulates the standard CRT justification for racial discrimination forever. Unfortunately, Jackson’s view predominates in elite circles, particularly in the educational establishment, including K-12. Until that view is extirpated, there is little hope that educational outcomes for blacks in urban centres will improve.
Racial discrimination in admissions at elite universities mainly benefits middle and upper class blacks, who are given an unjustifiable benefit over everyone else, including those of other races who are less advantaged. It should never have been allowed.
Why has my comment identifying the MSNBC Biden quote as being from the Declaration of Independence blocked?
As you were raising this point I made the same point in a comment of my own. Let’s see if mine is blocked as well.
Ellen,
Is you comment being blocked?
Or is the server getting hit with a lot of traffic?
Also, sometimes when under heavy traffic, comments get lost. Some of mine have.
Three plus hours after posting, I am fairly certain it’s blocked
Ellen, Do an internet search using the keywords network latency, then apologize to our host for your paranoid accusation. You people need to calm down!
Darren, you might enjoy this clip of George Carlin’s interview by Charlie Rose in 1999. His quote @1:32 on the big comet was golden
I root for the big Comet, I root for the big Asteroid to come and make things right
😎
All I did was ask why. Not rudely.
Since my comment has not appeared some 3 hours after submission, while scores more have posted – and I did wait a while to see if in time it would show up before asking – and since I know some comments are blocked even if civilly phrased, I think it is you who should apologize.
Biden has always been a liar, thug, corrupt and now a traitor.
Why so surprised?
81 million votes, right?
The Affirmative Action initiative at the universities seems to have resulted in the 1619 Project. Similarly, the election of a Black Mayor in NYC seems to have resulted in a campaign to destroy all pizza ovens on the pretext that they are polluting the air!
Rarely has dementia been so demented.
cionnath: I burst out laughing. Thanks for the morning boost. Then I humbly acknowledged to myself that I forgot where I put my keys. I’m hoping this might be normal for some…
The Democrats have an election to win in 2024. And Mr. Sniffer Whiffer is leading the charge with ever more ridiculous statements to rally their base. I expect him to come out with a new ad “They Want To Keep You In Chains !!” shortly. Thank you, Jonathan, for an excellent article.
Mr. Sniffer Whiffer Handsy Hands Touchy Too Muchy….
Keep your hands where we can see them, Joey!
https://nypost.com/2023/06/16/biden-gets-handsy-with-eva-longoria-at-white-house/
Biden’s nasty desperate, demented and was last in his law school class. Kinda answers the question.