The Supreme Court’s decision this week in Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action spells the end of racial preferences at Michigan’s public universities.
Some critics, not surprisingly, are treating Michigan’s new color-blind reality as an attack on racial minorites. Most prominent among those is Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
Justice Scalia took aim at Sotomayor’s dissenting opinion, specifically challenging Sotomayor’s suggestion that racism was behind Michigan voters’ decision to end racial preferences in the state.
The Washington Examiner reports details:
Scalia wrote a concurring opinion upholding a 2006 ballot initiative that amended Michigan’s constitution to ban affirmative action.
“As Justice Harlan observed over a century ago, ‘[o]ur Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens,'” Scalia concluded, quoting the dissent in Plessy v. Ferguson. “The people of Michigan wish the same for their governing charter. It would be shameful for us to stand in their way.”
And then, the Parthian shot: “And doubly shameful to equate ‘the majority’ behind [the constitutional amendment] with ‘the majority’ responsible for Jim Crow,” he added in a final footnote, citing the first two pages of Sotomayor’s dissent.
The self-described “wise Latina,” Sotomayor, compared the end of race-based preferences to Jim Crow laws that flouted racial equality prior to the civil rights movement.
Sotomayor wants you to understand that treating people equally regardless of skin color is RACIST. Got it?
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