For the entire Obama era, the nation has lived through the seemingly non-stop use of charges of "racism" as a way for Democrats to attack their opponents. It does not matter what is said or done, if it opposes Obama's position, the Obamacrats and their allies in the mainstream media attribute the position to racism. Long ago, most of the nation came to understand that charges of racism from these sources are laughable. Indeed, charges of racism frequently are things that the Obamacrats say because they have no answer to the actual facts or the reasoning employed by the person attacked.
Today, however, the Democrats and the media sank to a new low. At yesterday's oral argument at the Supreme Court, Justice Scalia asked a question of the lawyers in a case determining the constitutional propriety of racial preferences used in the admission process at the University of Texas. Among the briefs submitted to the Court was at least one that argued that by admitting students on the basis of race who were not academically prepared to compete at that school, the University of Texas was consigning those students to failure and that they would get better outcomes at schools that function at a lower level of competition. The brief discussed studies that came to that very conclusion. During the argument, Scalia mentioned that some argue that minority students admitted on the basis of race would get better outcomes if they went to slower track schools. He then asked the attorneys to comment. This question/comment from the Court is now being attacked as "racist". Even that scum, Harry Reid, the Democrat leader of the Senate (who famously called Barack Obama a "light skinned" African-American "with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one") took to the floor of the senate to denounce Justice Scalia as a racist.
The attack by Reid is disgraceful. The onslaught against Scalia is likewise disgraceful. There is nothing racist about a justice of the Supreme Court discussing a relevant issue raised in one of the briefs. Is it not worthy of consideration that the average black at the University of Texas has SAT scores fully 500 points lower than those of the average Asian American? If that difference in preparation results in academic problems for the African Americans, is the university doing them any favor by putting them into that competition? It may well be that the Court will decide that this argument carries no weight in coming to a decision, but it cannot be that voicing the argument placed before it and asking for comment from the advocates is "racist". Senator Reid certainly knows this to be the truth. He knows that Justice Scalia's statement is not a symptom of racism but just part of the normal judicial process. Nevertheless, Reid rushed out to demagogue the issue.
Reid like Obama will be out of office at the end of 2016. After years and years of watching this disgusting man pervert the honor of his office for political gain, I can't wait to see him go.
Today, however, the Democrats and the media sank to a new low. At yesterday's oral argument at the Supreme Court, Justice Scalia asked a question of the lawyers in a case determining the constitutional propriety of racial preferences used in the admission process at the University of Texas. Among the briefs submitted to the Court was at least one that argued that by admitting students on the basis of race who were not academically prepared to compete at that school, the University of Texas was consigning those students to failure and that they would get better outcomes at schools that function at a lower level of competition. The brief discussed studies that came to that very conclusion. During the argument, Scalia mentioned that some argue that minority students admitted on the basis of race would get better outcomes if they went to slower track schools. He then asked the attorneys to comment. This question/comment from the Court is now being attacked as "racist". Even that scum, Harry Reid, the Democrat leader of the Senate (who famously called Barack Obama a "light skinned" African-American "with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one") took to the floor of the senate to denounce Justice Scalia as a racist.
The attack by Reid is disgraceful. The onslaught against Scalia is likewise disgraceful. There is nothing racist about a justice of the Supreme Court discussing a relevant issue raised in one of the briefs. Is it not worthy of consideration that the average black at the University of Texas has SAT scores fully 500 points lower than those of the average Asian American? If that difference in preparation results in academic problems for the African Americans, is the university doing them any favor by putting them into that competition? It may well be that the Court will decide that this argument carries no weight in coming to a decision, but it cannot be that voicing the argument placed before it and asking for comment from the advocates is "racist". Senator Reid certainly knows this to be the truth. He knows that Justice Scalia's statement is not a symptom of racism but just part of the normal judicial process. Nevertheless, Reid rushed out to demagogue the issue.
Reid like Obama will be out of office at the end of 2016. After years and years of watching this disgusting man pervert the honor of his office for political gain, I can't wait to see him go.
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