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Hi Don, The sign in my front yard: Am I a racist? Jerry Baumchen

And any policy that doesn't recognize that individuals give preference by race is blind. As is any policy that doesn't recognize the damage done by long-term discrimination. It's like that old analogy of a tilted soccer field; when the score is 238-6, you make it flat, and then wonder why "they" are still losing the game. Wendy P.

I heard an interesting example on NPR yesterday. Imagine two businesses. One has a sign on the door that says "No blacks allowed". The other has a sign that says "Black people welcome". Both signs mention race. Are they both racist? The conservatives on the SC seem to think so.

So any attempt to stop racism against blacks is itself racist? That sounds like a white supremacist's dream. Claim that black people don't get jobs or into schools because they are lazy or something - CERTAINLY not racism, because people like them don't see race! And if anyone attempts to fix that sort of exclusion, why, THEY are the real racists.

White cis guys? Not a minority yet - but they soon will be. And that's what terrifies them. A lot of conservatives are terrified that conservatives will be treated the same way that whites once treated minorities.

You'd have thought that when misguided touchy feely Liberal Activist General William Tecumseh Sherman had his ridiculous Field Order 15 revoked and every temporarily fortunate former slave had to give back their 40 acres, and in some cases a mule too, the libtocracy would have learned. Any attempt at helping the socially disadvantaged and obviously harmed, even if it is a net benefit for all of society, is wrongheaded and doomed. Folks need to make themselves some boot straps out of stuff just laying around and pull themselves up. Who knows, it just might become an exercise fad and they'll make millions on youtube. Enough maybe that they can afford to secretly fly Supreme Court Justices around the world on vacations that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars and give free housing to their mom's. Ah, the American Way.

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That depends on who's defining "qualified." If it's the university, then surely they get some say in what qualifications are important. And if the university considers that exposing students to diversity of various kinds is a valid goal, then it's up to the university to build a diverse community. Grades aren't the only arbiter of who gets into any given college. They matter, but just as being an asshole is a disqualification for some jobs, there are other things to consider. I believe the SC is saying that diversity targets cannot include race as a criterion. So I guess that means that they can include membership in the NOI, along with NASCAR fandom, in the considerations of diversity. Note that the University of Texas gives preference to some top percentage of all high schools in Texas, and provides a tuition waiver for the first year for any valedictorian. That's one way. Schools are going to have to find ways. Of course, schools that emphasize "traditional" (i.e. back to the 1950's) can keep admitting good Christian kids, and ignoring noisy minorities, possible feminists, and boys and girls who dress funny. Thereby producing graduates who aren't equipped to deal with who's actually in the workforce these days. Wendy P.

Folsom Prison Blues? I hear the train a comin'!

Well, we have three Supreme Court justices appointed by a president who had 4 million fewer votes than his opponent, confirmed by a Senate majority representing way fewer than half the population. One of those justices was appointed in a rush right before an election, while another only made it because a Senator from a tiny state, the same Senator that rushed through the Barrett confrmation, chose to delay and delay and delay the hearings on another well quailfied candidate for no reason other than it was an election year. Isn't the US Constitution a wonderful thing?

Do you know why they stopped being standad? Wrong balance of pros and coms against 4 grommets or some other reason? Ease of manufacture, cost and things interchangbiliy often weigh the balance but curious if that was the case

As new immigrants to Russia President Putin will help them out. Each will be given a pure white, blue eyed Ukrainian child to raise.