It shouldn’t surprise anyone to know solicitor general and U.S. Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan is a liberal who supports racial discrimination and preferences. From Roger Clegg at National Review Online:
“The Piscataway case involved a school board’s decision to lay off a white schoolteacher because of a desire for more racial diversity on the faculty; the Justice Department, which had opposed the discrimination in the first Bush administration, switched sides under the Clinton administration. The key issue presented in the case was whether Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act allows employment discrimination in the name of nonremedial ‘diversity.’ The Dellinger memorandum was explicitly premised on the belief that Title VII does indeed permit nonremedial discrimination (although it acknowledged that the school board’s firing of this particular schoolteacher was untenable, based on the specific facts of that case), so Kagan’s note means she agrees with that premise.”
Kagan was a domestic policy adviser in the Clinton administration. In the margin of a memo about the case from former Solicitor General Walter Dellinger, Kagan wrote: “I think this is exactly the right position — as a legal matter, as a policy matter, and as a political matter.” As Clegg noted, Kagan agreed with Dellinger that the government may discriminate against whites in favor of blacks.
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Ms. Kagan’s thumbs-up position regarding racial preferences is indeed no surprise. After all, why would Barack Obama – our president of beer-fest notoriety – support a Supreme Court nominee who favors Martin Luther King’s dream of a color blind society?
Every utterance this president has made regarding race relations in America points to a cementing, not a bridging of the racial divide. His belief in “diversity” – the cloak that hides and legitimizes blatant discrimination in the public sector – makes the nomination of Elena Kagan an entirely plausible choice. But then again, the “writing on the wall” was evident from the get-go. Twenty years in Jeremiah Wright’s God-Damn-America church should have easily trumped all the hyperbole of “hope and change.” They easily should have translated into a DO-NOT-VOTE-FOR-OBAMA message. Alas, they did not.
Americans who believe in a colorblind society have their work cut out for themselves.
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