Woke Colleges Still Pushing Affirmative Action. Time for Some Punishment

This will be an ongoing fight, but it's a fight well worth having. To achieve a more perfect union, equality for all must be enforced with vim and vigor.

Surprise! Colleges and universities dedicated to judging individuals based on the color of their skin and not the content of their character are still doing that.

The Washington Free Beacon reported that Students for Fair Admissions, the group responsible for bringing the affirmative action case Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard in front of the Supreme Court, is pressing certain elite colleges over what appears to be a non-existent change in student makeup.

The group pointed out that Yale, Princeton, and Duke had previously argued in an amicus brief for Harvard that without explicit racial biasing in admissions, it would be impossible to get a diverse student body.

“The record showed that the race-neutral alternatives proposed by Petitioner would lead to a near 33% reduction in the number of African American students admitted, absent other admissions policy changes that would ‘result in a significant decline in the strength of Harvard’s admitted classes across multiple dimensions, including its potential for academic and scholarly achievement,’” the brief read.

But The New York Times noted that following the decision to ban affirmative action, the numbers of black and Hispanic students changed very little, and that the number of Asian students at these universities had dropped. 

“Asian American enrollment dropped to 29 percent from 35 percent at Duke; to 24 percent from 30 percent at Yale; and to 23.8 percent from 26 percent at Princeton,” the Times wrote. “At the same time, Black enrollment rose to 13 percent from 12 percent at Duke; stayed at 14 percent at Yale; and dropped to 8.9 percent from 9 percent at Princeton.”

Either the schools were lying when they said the only way to achieve on-campus diversity efforts was to explicitly select candidates based on race, or they’re still engaging in the racial discrimination even though it’s illegal. Given DEI obsessed officials at these colleges have openly admitted they were going to skirt the ruling, the answer seems clear. 

Berkeley Law School dean Erwin Chemerinsky was caught on camera last year saying how he explicitly used racial discrimination when it came to hiring faculty. At a legal conference following the Court’s decision, University of Michigan general counsel Timothy Lynch repeatedly encouraged faculty engage in plausible deniability for racial quotas.

“What can you say right now is the race-neutral explanation for doing it, and how do you avoid having your faculty colleagues muddy the record?” Lynch explained to the attendees.

It is clear that these colleges and universities will not abandon race as a key factor in determining who gets to enter their institutions. Despite being told in no uncertain terms by the highest judicial authority in the country to cut the crap, the data shows the colleges are doing it anyway. 

So what’s to be done? There are a few solutions.

First, lawsuits. Students for Fair Admissions has told these schools they are prepared to sue them again if it’s clear that they are circumventing the Supreme Court’s decision. In a series of letters sent to the various colleges, the group asked the schools to explain how it was possible that they actually lost Asian students after affirmative action got the ax. 

“Please explain this discrepancy, including any new, substantial race-neutral alternatives that you adopted in response to Harvard. Without that information, SFFA will conclude that you are circumventing the Supreme Court’s decision,” the group wrote. “SFFA is prepared to enforce Harvard against you through litigation. You are now on notice. Preserve all potentially relevant documents and communications.”

The threat of losing yet another lawsuit, and by extension facing more restrictions, could be an effective threat to remove race based preferences from college admissions. Especially if those lawsuits come with a financial penalty. 

We’ve seen in the aftermath of the violent pro-Hamas riots on college campuses that donor money speaks. When donors threatened to start withholding funds over the utter failure of schools to take action against the vile anti-Semitism, colleges began to crack down. 

Finally, if there are bodies in the federal and state governments that actually care about enforcing the law on college campuses, they can investigate and punish accordingly. Unfortunately, that seems to only be the case in red states, and when Republicans are in power at the federal level. Biden won’t be lifting a finger against these race-obsessed goons. 

This will be an ongoing fight, but it's a fight well worth having. To achieve a more perfect union, equality for all must be enforced with vim and vigor. Racists perched in the high towers of academia cannot be allowed to discriminate with reckless abandon. 

If colleges and universities refuse to follow the law, they must be met with serious consequences. If they continue down this path, the punishment should be swift, severe, and uncompromising. Only then will they learn that racial discrimination has no place in America.