Affirmative racisim in Seattle

George Will:

This city's school district decided in 2000 that because the son of Jill Kurfirst and the daughter of Winnie Bachwitz are white, they should be assigned to an inferior and distant high school. If they had not left the Seattle school system, this would have required them to rise at 5 a.m. in order to leave home by 5:30 a.m., alone and in the dark, to take the first of three buses, returning home between 8 p.m. and 9 p.m., with almost no time left for homework, family activities and adequate sleep.

The parents argue that the racial school assignments -- actually, assignments by pigmentation -- that so injured their children violate the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection of the laws. The reliably unreliable U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit -- often reversed but never in doubt -- predictably ruled, with interesting indifference to pertinent Supreme Court precedents, against the parents. Soon -- oral arguments are tomorrow -- the Supreme Court can remind the 9th Circuit of the Constitution's limits on what schools can do in the name of "diversity."

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Although Seattle never had segregated schools, the district discusses its racial preferences with reference to "segregation" and "integration." But a statement by the district reveals that racial preferences are supposed to serve social engineering: "Diversity in the classroom increases the likelihood that children will discuss racial or ethnic issues and be more likely to socialize with people of different races." Or different skin tones.

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Until June, the school district's Web site declared that "cultural racism" includes "emphasizing individualism as opposed to a more collective ideology," "having a future time orientation" (planning ahead) and "defining one form of English as standard." The site also asserted that only whites can be racists, and disparaged assimilation as the "giving up" of one's culture. After this propaganda provoked outrage, the district, saying it needed to "provide more context to readers" about "institutional racism," put up a page saying that the district's intention is to avoid "unsuccessful concepts such as a melting pot or colorblind mentality."

The Supreme Court has said that all racial classifications by government are "presumptively invalid" unless narrowly tailored to serve a compelling government interest. The district's repellent Web site revealed the interest that the district considers so compelling that it justifies racial preferences. Supreme Court deference to such race-mongering would make a mockery of the equal protection guarantee.

The words of the 14th Amendment are not ambiguous. Yet, just as an old Supreme Court ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson led to "separate but equal" liberals keep trying to avoid the clear language which says that no person shall be denied equal protection of the law based on race. The racist school board of Seattle and the racist judges of the 9th Circuit ignore the constitution and the Supreme Court to push their racist objectives and try to dress them in the language of spin. Underlying this racism is a condescension about blacks which is camouflaged with spin about diversity. The next to last paragraph of Will's piece taken from the schools website gives the game away. It must be that color blind mentality of the 14th Amendment that bothers them.