A divided federal appeals court has struck down Michigan's ban on consideration of race and gender in college admissions.
The issue is likely to renew the national political and legal debate over affirmative action, which the Supreme Court could be poised to resolve in coming months.
The 6th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Friday concluded in a 2-1 ruling that the voter-approved ban on "preferential treatment" at state colleges and universities was unconstitutional, and "alters Michigan's political structure by impermissibly burdening racial minorities."
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@ Functioning Lunatic:
You are asking questions that are not supposed to be asked, but you are right to ask them.
I found profound truth in one comment above: "we are taking over the country. If you don't like it, move back to Europe."
Thank you for the support,
I still have not been told where I have to go back to though.
I have asked the Native Americans if they would enjoy living under Mongolian Rule since they migrated across the Alaskan Bridge and therefore need to return to Mongolia and Western Russia since the only true Americans are the Mexicans that were here from South America. But then Anthropology states that they immigrated here from South America ... so I guess it is up to the Buffalo to repopulate North America the way it was supposed to be.
Even Mohawk, Ojibuway, and the Six Nations are Mongolian Descent over the Bridge, so claiming settlement ... we all walk away and return proper rights to the native Mexicans since they are the only ones proved to be the first here.
I will pack my bags as soon as someone tells me the formula for what country is mine with 5 generations of White heritage (and actually one Indian, but it's a family secret). Perhaps we should start to look at modern times instead of punishing those for the past. Just a thought.
@ Functioning Lunatic:
You don't have to leave, and you could go anywhere you chose if you decided to toss this sociological mess away from you. Nobody should tell you where to go, but your point was well made.
I can live anywhere in Europe and work easily from many countries there.
I won't be living when white folks are the pathetic minority they're going to become in the USA.
I'm glad I lived here during the time that I did.
I love Rome.
Let me tell you a different kinda story about affirmative action going to high school here in the flint mi area always thought i would have a nice g m job but when it came time for me to apply sorry my skin was the wrong color they had to hire like 10 blacks to 1 white its not that im mad nope i own my own roofing buisness that i would not have if i would have been hired in there but affimative action is not fair anyways you look at it
@ gung hoe:
Good for you!
Affirmative action denied you a job, so you established a business of your own.
With all the whining that there are no jobs, I continue to post here that one can make his own job.
You did.
I did.
It's good to be the boss, isn't it.
Affirmative action negates equality by telling a minority they are not good enough to do it on their own.
This is a VIT: "very important topic."
I'm glad to see many writers–Jason, Jeff, jerk, gung hoe, and Functional Lunatic among them–bravely dealing with reality about this sensitive subject, which INCLUDES affirmative action, instead of babbling forth the expected PC lies.
A nation is not a parcel of land: it is a people.
If white people move "Out of America" and "Back to Europe" completely, those citizens who remain are going to be very surprised by what will happen to the economy, their jobs, and their government checks.
That said, I repeat what I wrote here last night: some of the most brilliant and successful people I know are African-Americans.
Not one of them needed affirmative action to get into college. Most of them were recruited by colleges, as I (a white boy) was.
Talk to the young white women. That's who benefits the most.
@Functioning Lunatic affirmative action was established for the employers, admissions boards and authority figures that think just like you. Not the "typical" racist but the cerebral one.
We all need to be more "cerebral."
Oh, yes–I just loved it when all of our colleges and universities were more cerebral!
And high schools, too.
I mean, I think frat parties and all that are fun at school, but there was something about that good, old-fashioned education that I found exciting–don't you think so? Too? I don't care for the old-fashioned as a beverage, however–oh, no.
Shut up, Sheryl.
You talk too much.
You're embarrassing me.
Another activist judges' ruling. It is time for White Americans to replace this anti-White "judicial" system with our own. If the courts refuse to accept the will of the voters, then it is illegitimate! Time to throw these "judges" out of office and on to the streets!!
@Sheryl:
I don't care for that particular beverage, either.
Too old-school.
yes
No guessing necessary. That's been demonstrated over and over again, and will be demonstrated again endlessly.
Not that it will mean much to those who are hell-bent on pushing their fantasies on the rest of us.