I’m tired. And I need a cigarette. I’d say I feel like we just had rough sex…but I don’t want to cause more terrorism.

I saw this coming a mile away. The petitioner losing the case is irrelevent. The result doesn’t negate the statement of purpose. Why Powell would agree with race being used to increase diversity, but not at the very least have one reason be to redress racial injustices – when it’s clearly stated in the petitioner’s statement, is beyond me.

Indeed, I’d say any institution where white dominance exists, in particular ones that are intrinsic to human existence, i.e. employment, shelter (housing), and to some extent schooling, posess said white dominance due to “cumulative racial injustices” Asking it to be stated over and over is like asking a physicist to state fundamentals of number theory in each scientific theory he proposes.

this partially explains how recent immigrants, for example, can get preferential treatment in college admissions, when nothing “special” was done against them. a far cry from:

This is a little tricky. I agree with you partially, but as I said before, it just means better methods of classification are required. But anything King says won’t support or contravene it, because the situation wasn’t in the national discussion at the time.

But, I will also say that racial classification and discrimination doesn’t necessarily have to account for “length of stay” so to speak. An immigrant from the Gabon is immediately classifed as “black” the second he arrives, and I’d argue, inherits most of the socially ingrained stereotypes a black slave descendent would endure, within their social class. Either way, King’s words are orthogonal to this entire line of discussion.

the petitioner lost the case. powell’s prevailing opinion does not include the context of redressing cumulative racial injustices.

this partially explains how recent immigrants, for example, can get preferential treatment in college admissions, when nothing “special” was done against them. a far cry from:

A society that has done something special against the Negro for hundreds of years must now do something special for him, in order to equip him to compete on a just and equal basis

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True. A case is the NBA. Whiteboys just can’t handle the rock.

Well, that would be the single most important opinion on AA, justice powell in the Bakke case. powell argued that race could be used as a factor as long as it is done for the purpose of a diverse student body, w/o having to prove past exclusionary practices

Taken from this link:

“The central purpose of the Fourteenth Amendment was to protect discreet and insular minorities, and it would be cruel of the Court to turn this Amendment into a weapon against state government efforts to redress cumulative racial injustices. The purpose of University of California’s admission system is to promote racial diversity in a school marked by white dominance in both the faculty and the administration.”

Any statements Powell (or any other judge) made regarding diversity must be understood in the context put forth by the petitioner.

Well, that would be the single most important opinion on AA, justice powell in the Bakke case. powell argued that race could be used as a factor as long as it is done for the purpose of a diverse student body, w/o having to prove past exclusionary practices (not unlike schools who give preference to students form the midwest or southern states)

i understand your argument that race-conscious policies for the sake of diversity are a natural extension of race-conscious policies for the sake of righting past exclusionary practices. After all, all exclusionary practices would result in a lack of diversity. But it does not follow that all lack of diversity is a product of exclusionary practices. This is a critical distinction.

Furthermore, diversity focuses on results, or equality of results. MLK, in every known quote about race conscious policies, focused not on results, but on equal opportunities. Another critical distinction.

so for these 2 reasons, the reliance on diversity has shifted the landscape dramatically, to a point where AA cannot be squared w/ the Dream.

“I don’t think I deserve a job over a more qualified white man. But if it’s a tie, fuck ‘em – You had a 400 year headstart”