Courting Conservatism

YOU CAN BET your bottom dollar, five'll get you ten, that the supremely conservative United States supreme court will bring an end to affirmative action. It says here that the vote will be five four or six three, depending upon the chiefjustice, who has the temerity to openmindly give due consideration to all points of view, an amazing achievement on a court packed with far right wing idealogues, by design. The three liberals will side with harvard, whih seks to preserve race based quotas, and the conservatives will side with the plaintiffs, who seek to eliminate it. The court will heard and act upon fallacious arguments. the assailants of affirmative action will have argued that the wrongs of past racism cannot be righted by more discrimination, what they call "reverse discrimination". The Harvardians will have argued that eliminating affirmative action racial quotas will do great damage to racial, ethinic, and cultural diversity, take your pick, at great cost to institutional wholeness. Justice Clarence Thomas broek his thirty years of stolid silence to remark that although he has heard people use the term "diversity" numerous times, he still has no idea what the word means. He could remedy his ignorance by either purchasing a dictionary, or by consulting a fourth grader... The cards have always been stacked against American minorities, wherein white male partiarchy remains a core value, despite recent decades of striving by progressives to undermine tradition and to create a society based on true equality by progressives. Cnservatives, quite naturally, have long opposed the seemingly inevitable evolution towards equality of citizenship and opportunity. Affirmative action is not and never has been "discrimination", but rather, a remedy for exiting discrimination. It does not, as conservatives would have us believe, unfairly favor minorities. Actually, it redresses past wrongs, and attempts to remedy them by restacking the cards against no one, and equally for everyone. More importanly, affirmative action addresses not only past wrongs, but present ones. It is as if a very bad call has been made by the referee in a football game, and, instead of accepting the unfairness, the recipient team of the unfair ruling is given equal treatment by calling the same penalty on the recipient. Whether the unpenaized team deserves its artificial penatly, the game becomes fair, and the unfairly penalized team cannot win the game unfairly. No one has ever treid to argue that affirmative action is anything other than an arbitrary, artificial means of creating racial equality. Nor is cultural diversity the key ingredient. The key ingredient is equality, and the attainment of it, artificially, by the only means possible Without affirmative action, without the government forcing racial equality down America's throat, American racism, which to a degree has gone underground, buried deeply within the legal, criminal, and even medical systems. would remain visibly extant, and America's core value, racism, would endure. Most likely it would endure no matter what, will always endure, and now, is virtually guaranteed to endure.