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Do Democrats actually care about educating minority kids?
Leftist outrage greeted the Supreme Court’s recent ruling banning affirmative action. That anger is misplaced; it should be directed at the failing inner city public schools that graduate generation after generation of black and brown children incapable of succeeding in college, or in life.
If every child in the United States were receiving a decent education, we would not need affirmative action.
Associate Justice Sotomayor wrote in her dissenting opinion that the Court’s decision blocking race-based admissions “creates a leadership pipeline that is less diverse than our increasingly diverse society, reserving “positions of influence, affluence and prestige in America” for a predominantly white pool of college graduates.”
Sorry, Ms. Sotomayor, the funneling of minority kids away from that leadership pipeline occurs long before college and has little to do with the admissions’ policies of our prestigious universities. It has everything to do, instead, with black and brown children not learning to read or do simple math in our public schools. It has everything to do with the stultifying resistance of the teachers’ unions to any innovation or reform; everything to do with Democrat politicians who ignore the failures of an education establishment which condemns young people to lives as second-class citizens, at best.
OPINION: SUPREME COURT PUTS UNIVERSITIES ON NOTICE, BUT MISSED AN OPPORTUNITY
Jamaal Bowman, representative from New York’s 16th district was especially unhappy. “The Supreme Court has yet again taken us back in time by barring institutions of higher education from using race-conscious admissions policies,” he said. Note that Mr. Bowman represents a district that includes southern Westchester and the Bronx, as well as the town of Wakefield. The students of Wakefield’s elementary school are almost entirely black and brown, and the great majority…
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