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Originally Posted by tristanrobin  I heartily approve of Justice Bryer's comment today, after SCOTUS ruled (5-4) on an issue which basically rolls back Brown vs. Board of Education.
"Never before have so few destroyed so much so quickly."
Roberts and Alito both looked as if they'd been kicked in the stomach. | Or perhaps we should consider the quote from Thomas in the same case Quote: |
Preferring members of any one group for no reason other than race or ethnic origin is discrimination for its own sake.
| Even more poignant is the fact that Thomas points out that the very arguments that the dissent used in this case was the same arguments used in the dissent of Brown. Again Thomas hit it on its head" Quote: |
What was wrong in 1954 cannot be right today
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Indeed, if our history has taught us anything, it has taught us to beware of elites bearing racial theories.30 See, e.g., Dred Scott v. Sandford, 19 How. 393, 407 (1857) ("[T]hey [members of the "negro African race"] had no rights which the white man was bound to respect"). Can we really be sure that the racial theories that motivated Dred Scott and Plessy are a relic of the past or that future theories will be nothing but beneficent and progressive? That is a gamble I am unwilling to take, and it is one the Constitution does not allow.
| How do you end discrimination on the basis of race when the program you use is based upon discriminating on the basis of race?
dmk Conservatism, I repeat is not an ideology. It does not breed fanatics....But if you want men who seek, reasonably and prudently, to reconcile the best in wisdom of our ancestors with the change which is essential to a vigorous civil social existence, then you will do well to turn to conservative principles
-Russell Kirk- |