Why Do Racial Preferences Hurt Minorities?

 Last month the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-to-3 that colleges can no longer use the unconstitutional practice of racial preferences in college admissions. According to Deroy Murdock, Democrats are moaning about it. 

“The Supreme Court ruling has put a giant roadblock in our country’s march toward racial justice,” complained Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.

Former first lady Michell Obama moaned: “Today, my heart breaks for any young person out there who’s wondering what their [sic] future holds – and what kinds of chances will be open to them.”

Murdock claims that “Such condescension is, itself, racist.” He said that just the assumption that Black or Hispanic children need racial preferences is racist. I agree with him. I believe that people of all ages and sexes are capable of entering universities on their merits. I do not believe that the color of one’s skin says anything about one’s ability to do well in college.

Thinking so little of black and brown kids is racist.

That said, the Left’s “systemic racism” scarecrow does not target millions of minority children. Rather, these kids endure systemic ignorance; namely, government schools that leave their minds empty while incinerating tax dollars.

Given their massive disservice to black and brown boys and girls, these “schools” might as well be run by David Duke and the Ku Klux Klan. In reality, these kids are oppressed in disproportionally black, Democrat-run cities….

If black and brown kids – who previously would have reached college via their melanin – now must rely on their merits, then America darn well better ready them. The Supreme Court’s decision boosts the urgency for school choice, educational excellence, and high expectations, and was a rejection of mediocrity and its advocates; namely, teachers-union parasites.

Parents, students, and voters must demand that per-pupil taxpayer dollars follow students to the best schools available – public, private, secular, parochial, and at home. K-12 schools should compete for those dollars, just as universities wrestle for parental savings and students’ Pell Grants and college loans.

Radical teachers must abandon their evil obsession with stoking racial division and stirring students’ sexual feelings. Instead, the entire focus must be on reading, writing, and computing in service to postsecondary readiness. And students uninterested in college should prime themselves for vocational school, in which there is much promise and no dishonor….

The Supreme Court did black and Hispanic students a massive favor by forcing them to rely on how they think, not how they look.

It is wrong to tell black and brown children that they are not smart enough to get into college without racial preferences. They are just as capable as any other children and deserve to be prepared. Our schools should return to teaching the basics and prepare all children for adulthood.