The Situation: The Supreme Court docket’s choice ruling towards race-based affirmative motion in faculties.
Does anybody actually imagine that the remedy for racism is extra racism (“Justice is colour blind,” June 30)?
The Supreme Court docket accurately determined this case, and the choice ought to come as no shock to anybody who has learn the 14th Modification.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor in her dissent mentioned the court docket’s choice “closes the door of alternative that the Court docket’s precedents helped open to younger college students of each race,” however this case was partly introduced on behalf of Asian college students who had been denied admission. Are they not a minority?
And what few appear to acknowledge (and you’ll by no means understand it from the opinions of the liberal minority): Affirmative motion was by no means meant to be in place perpetually. Good riddance to unhealthy coverage that demeans minority college students.
John Kapica
Carmel
In ruling towards affirmative motion in faculty admissions, the Supreme Court docket has acknowledged {that a} meritocracy is a vital part of a real democracy.
Discrimination towards any particular person solely based mostly on race is a blatant injustice that engenders divisiveness.
A merit-driven commonplace for private obtainment will not be solely equitable and goal, nevertheless it incentivizes the person to attempt diligently to realize his or her purpose.
Denis David
East Rockaway
It’s about time we stopped affirmative motion in college-acceptance picks.
Whereas the intention might have been honorable, this misguided social engineering has resulted in our specializing in the mistaken a part of the issue and never fixing something.
The actual downside is that too lots of our Ok-12 colleges are usually not doing their job. That is very true for the massive inner-city populations of black and Hispanic individuals, the place too many graduates are usually not ready to go to school as a result of their training is subpar.
However now we have an answer to this downside: It’s a mixture of constitution colleges, vouchers for personal college, and many others.
Larry Hootnick
Water Mill
Not surprisingly, the left is outraged by the Supreme Court docket’s ruling that affirmative motion is unconstitutional.
Nonetheless, I see a definite optimistic of the court docket’s ruling: That is the best single endorsement of the proliferation of constitution colleges in every single place.
The charter-school sector is predominantly targeted on and in minority neighborhoods and their youngsters.
Louie Rey
Summerville, SC
So Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson thinks the latest ruling on affirmative motion is a “tragedy for us all.”
Actually? Isn’t the actual tragedy when the scholars who labored so onerous to realize glorious grades, which might justifiably entitle them to admission to the college of their selection, are denied due to a circumstance of beginning?
Perhaps I’m loopy, however shouldn’t the aim of “affirmative motion” be to forestall discrimination towards a person due to his/her race, no matter whether or not they’re black and even white or Asian?
Now the universities are free to actually act affirmatively and deal with each applicant based mostly on his or her particular person benefit.
Frank DeLustro
Port St. Lucie, Fla.
Because the late ’70s, younger individuals of colour have had affirmative motion of their nook. And wealthy, spoiled white youngsters have had mother and father who might pay or rip-off them into the colleges of their selection.
Who the heck was advocating on my behalf again then? I used to be a non-privileged, hard-working white child whose immigrant father (who had escaped Nazi-occupied Austria and misplaced each his mother and father and brothers within the Holocaust) made his residing as a presser in a Brooklyn sweatshop. I’ll inform you who: no one.
What about restructuring affirmative motion round class quite than pores and skin colour, within the title of lending a serving to hand to lower-income younger individuals of price? Nicely, to that plan I might completely say “Amen.”
Gary Stein
Manhattan
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