Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts
“From status to contract” was the way Sir Henry Maine described the emergence of equality before the law from the status-based law of the past when class distinctions determined rights.
Today in the US and Great Britain race distinctions determine rights, with “people of color” having higher rights than white citizens who have been reduced to second class legal status based on skin color.
Alfred W. Blumrosen, Compliance Chief of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, made white Americans second-class citizens when in defiance of the statutory language of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the US Constitution he established a system of racial privileges for black Americans in university admissions, employment and promotion. The system of racial privileges Blumrosen established forced universities to admit black students ahead of more qualified whites and forced employers to hire and promote blacks ahead of more qualified whites. Blumrosen’s system of disparate rights in violation of the 14th Amendment was hidden under the term “affirmative action.” (See The New Color Line, 1995.)
Universities, employers, and the judicial system complied with Blumrosen’s illegal and unconstitutional dictate for 58 years. After more than a half century of holding back more qualified whites in order to give racial preference to less qualified blacks, on June 29, 2023, the US Supreme Court banned race-based admission privileges for blacks, but as Heather Mac Donald wrote in The City Journal the Court’s ruling left open ways around the prohibition.
Indeed, as Renu Mukherjee reports in the Autumn 2023 issue of The City Journal, the Supreme Court’s ruling is being vacated by the abolishment of objective merit-based standards in school admissions by both universities and elite high schools. Racial preferences are used indirectly through such schemes as an Economic Need Index and poverty rates that guarantee a certain portion of admissions to those in these categories. These schemes are called “race-neutral” although they have a disproportionate effect on unfavored races. Mukherjee explains the schemes in The City Journal.
The response to the Supreme Court’s effort to reestablish equality in law, sometimes called equal protection. is to abolish a merit-based society. Quotas remain in force, but they are now in the form of economic class in place of race, and in contrast to the status-based rights of the past, it is the lowest economic class that has the privileges.
When elite high schools, such as New York’s Stuyvesant High School, Bronx High School of Science, and Virginia’s Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, are saddled with students who cannot compete for admission on the basis of ability, the schools’ standards have to be reduced in order that the privileged cadre does not graduate at the bottom of the class or not at all. The same for universities.
The consequence of reduced standards is obvious. Graduates are less capable and the competitiveness of the United States declines. The cost of the racial preferences is not only the sidelining of the careers of more capable youth but also a decline in the overall capability of a country with declining standards of performance. This is another way, along with the offshoring of American manufacturing jobs, that the US is being transformed into a Third World country. The real effect of the 1964 Civil Rights Act was to destroy a merit-based society and equal treatment of law.
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Yep.
And as more DEI hires are placed in positions of responsibility, we will see more Flint, MI, Lahaina, HI and Palestine, OH leadership failures.
Food safety? Think again.
Tap water safe? Don’t count on it.
Where’d the money go?
The DEI supervisor likes the titty bar and fast cars.
Wanna take a flight somewhere? Good luck arriving alive.
Go to a hospital? Not on your freaking life. I’ve been to a hospital with DEI hires…neeeeever, eeeeeever, again.
It’s hard enough now getting something from the gov’t. DEI hires….furgetaboutit.
I’ll watch some of those police body cam videos once in a while. The crap they have to put up with…no thanks. Anyway, been seeing more and more latino police officers working in this country. I don’t know who’ll get it worse, the blacks or us crackers.
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This Wakanda thing just isnt working out.
Baltimore City is a perfect example of affirmative action . Education system awarding diplomas for a 1.6 GPA , the graduates cannot read , structure a sentence or perform at a minimal standard in math .
Industry gone and a school system and city run by majority blacks , what could possibly go wrong
EVERYTHING MUTHA FUCKA
This was in Balto in 2021 … young dude was due to graduate — with a 0.13 GPA … until his mom found out and got the school district to have him re-do his senior …
https://wset.com/news/nation-world/calls-to-shut-down-baltimore-school-where-013-gpa-ranks-near-top-half-of-class
Just his senior year? Bwaha
The Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution promising equal protection under the law passed following the War Between The States has never, I repeat, has never, fully enforced especially when it comes to Black folks! The writer is being disingenuous when he implies the ruling class’ turning on White people is something new. The framers of this country established a gender, class and color based plutocracy with themselves on the top when they excluded all females, all Native people, all non land owning whites and all Blacks from participating in their republican form of government; a crucial fact the writer refuses to acknowledge or see! https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/voting-rights-throughout-history/
Racism is deeply rooted in the history of this country from colonial times to the present. https://americanhistory.si.edu/brown/history/1-segregated/jim-crow.html Yet the writer steadfastly refuses to admit this in his crusade to awaken whites to what is going on and what is happening to them; and he focuses on the wrong culprits. https://guides.loc.gov/chronicling-america-early-eugenics
Roberts view of American history ignores slavery and the state sanctioned Black Codes that excluded Black people from most occupations following the collapse of “Reconstruction” and reduced us to peonage. By the way those laws were used as models for creating the horrors we see in Palestine, what we saw in South Africa, Rhodesia, Angola and parts of Latin America, facts Roberts will never mention, because to Robert’s mind those were the good ol’ days. He also ignores the class warfare against white workers and farmers by the elites.
Black people fought not to live next to or fornicate with whites but to have equal protection under the law but the Civil Rights movement was deliberately high jacked because equal protection and a color blind legal system would have turned this society’s power dynamics upside down even though Blacks were only ten per cent of the population at that time.
Lastly the people reconfiguring America are not Black, “Blacks” like Obama are merely puppets and pawns in the overarching scheme of things. The plutocracy = the elites, the billionaire class are the ones Roberts should be railing against but he won’t. Keep in mind he was part of the stooge/minion class.
And, as we’ve seen, the 14th Amendment has been utilized to destroy the 10th Amendment … to kill States Rights …
The 1964 Civil Rights Act Destroyed the 14th Amendment and Resurrected Status-based Law
Dear Dr Roberts:
In re, “The 1964 Civil Rights Act Destroyed the 14th Amendment and Resurrected Status-based Law” — Why is it, Dr Roberts that in the entirety of all your postings over the years you’ve never once, to my knowledge, ventured to discuss the 1968 Civil Rights Act and its consequences within the American homeland?
1968 was IMHO the year that mounted, via the TRIBE, the final leg in the death of US Constitutional Rule of Law per a corollary that ran coeval with the civil Rights legislation of that infamous year written by the Communist ACLU and ascribed to by the Supremes as the epitome of all overthrow mechanisms, since it would doubtless lead to the greatest victory the Jews would have ever won against American members of the European White Race.
. . . Upon passage into law this rottenness would become the fell swoop moment when all Jews were exulted onto the catbird throne of LEGAL WHITE-hood, making even of many with black faces fully, legally, WHITE. . . removing from them the onus of ‘lackluster’ minority status and thus paving the way for racially biased, anti-White minority rule over Amerika!
It was a process inveigling the final overthrow of White power within the US Congress and the three branches. . . signed, sealed and abetted by LBJ — the beginnings of full empirical disenfranchisement of Whites in our own homeland; a truly savory morsel for the murdering, treacherous, lying, racially biased members of organized Jewry.
Why, Dr Roberts, do you never discuss this. . . the principle mechanism behind the Jewish overthrow of every attribute of Constitutional law and the crowding out of goyim, so-called, from both government and private sector workplaces under what our Jewish masters refer to as, ‘GRANDFATHERING?’
It would be interesting to learn whether you supported the 1968 Civil Rights legislation.
But clearly your avoidance of any mention of this driving force which enabled the full Jew-driven overthrow of the American WHITE homeland, installing minority JEW control over all under the lie that the new Jew rulers were WHITE Americans, must be repealed and Jewry restored to its righteous position in history as a minority race.
. . . A race cannot evolve through political legislation, nor expand the parameters of its spiritual horizons via legerdemain. Jews cannot become white as the result of some lines written into a docket that scoundrels have submitted to the US Library of Congress, however much its beneficiaries desire it.
Jews can never be White, just as Whites can never be Jews. The 1968 civil rights legislation was completely false from the start!
Let us fix this problem we have with racial disparity NOW, relegating Jews back to their true minority status while a US Congress yet exists, because if we wait, the full ramifications of the 1968 Jewish thievery over the White homeland will have become a faits accompli.
Mike Andrews
Somehow women, who are a majority in the country, were deemed a minority and even white women were pushed ahead of white men in employment and their hiring mandated. I think the fall of personal income dates from the acts of affirmative action. And also the plague that is now the “holy homeless” made up of overwhelmingly white men. At least that’s been true in the San Francisco area for the past thirty years or more.
Abolish the state and all of this evaporates.
Worked with a few AA hires; less than 5% were worth a shit.
well, i worked for the poster child of affirmative action. a midget jewish lesbian. she promoted a black dude who i swear spoke tasmainian devil and dumb as a stump too boot. thank god a few old white guys were left to carry that city shop. were all gone and like our woke military Now What! sow the wind and reep the whirlwind …