The Supreme Court has the power and responsibility to ensure executive and legislative actions are Constitutional.1
In 1857, SCOTUS issued a controversial decision regarding the citizenship of slaves. Justice Taney called out the need to address the injustice of our Constitution’s original framing.2
“No one, we presume, supposes that any change in public opinion or feeling … should induce the court to give to the words of the Constitution a more liberal construction in their favor than they were intended to bear when the instrument was framed and adopted. … If any of its provisions are deemed unjust, there is a mode prescribed in the instrument itself, by which it may be amended; but while it remains unaltered, it must be construed now as it was understood at the time of its adoption. … Any other rule of construction would abrogate the judicial character of this court, and make it the mere reflex of the popular opinion or passion of the day.” Justice Taney
In 1868 our Constitution was amended, “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”3
In 2014, a group of Asian Americans filed suit against Harvard claiming racial discrimination.
With limited space for incoming Freshmen, SAT scores are a criteria for admittance. University limits on SAT score for acceptance preclude “racial diversity”. In order to manipulate the number, the bar lowers for some and is raised for others. Asian Americans sacrifice seats for less qualified applicants.4
Asian Americans are artificially and unfairly constrained for the sake of equitable outcomes independent of inequitable qualifications.
Here’s a look at Harvard’s class of 20265:
Students compete on level ground; the gap in SAT scores becomes an equalizing reality in the realm of GPAs.
Equal opportunity doesn’t guarantee equal outcome. We need to address the deeper problem.
“No child left behind” promotes illiteracy: children graduate high school lacking mastery of basic reading/writing skills. They’re ill-prepared to compete in Academia and in America’s workforce.
The Constitution doesn’t guarantee a seat at the table but it protects the opportunity. It’s up to us to address the gap in preparedness. Don’t look to the Government to fix this.
At the Learning Center where I volunteer with underprivileged/underserved children, race is a useless metric. Half of our dark-skinned children are ESL students from the Middle East and North Africa, deemed White in the US Census.6
The other half, those caught in the cycle of America’s own generational poverty, also need help with Reading, Writing and Arithmetic.
Please join me in addressing the needs of all children who lack readiness for adulthood. Volunteer to support those who are otherwise disadvantaged.
Let’s do this!
No Harvard degree needed to do the math.