The billionaire businessman added that he thought President Obama has done little to help the African-American community during his seven years in office.
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Will Affirmative Action Take a Hit at the Supreme Court? “They come from lesser schools where they do not feel that they’re-that they’re being pushed ahead in-in classes that are too-too fast for them”, Scalia said.
On Saturday, however, Trump called Scalia “terrific” at a campaign event while telling South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson that his “favorite justice” is Clarence Thomas, calling the court’s only black justice “underrated”.
We all know that the old boys network is alive and well and bred and cultivated in such places as Harvard Yard and the Skull and Bone (yards) of Yale, and that the powerbrokers in our country came out of the elite institutions where they forged their bonds in youthful drunken revelry and late nights in the library and Thanksgiving breaks at each other’s homes.
Scalia made the comment while the court heard arguments in an affirmative action case.
Meyers then uttered the punchline before replacing a picture of Scalia with one of a KKK member in their white robe: “Though black students say it’s not the worst thing they’ve ever heard from a guy in a robe”.
The Fisher case is expected to be decided in June 2016.
One of the many black students tweeting #StayMadAbby was Patrick Sutton, a 2014 Vanderbilt University graduate who is now in a post-graduate program at Tulane University. This “mismatch” theory holds that minorities would be better off at less academically rigorous schools. Scalia continued. “I’m just not impressed by the fact the University of Texas may have fewer [Black students]”.
“I have great African-American friendships”, Trump said.
Kirsanow, who is black, delivered an even more dramatic denunciation of the academic status quo.
“We reject the premise that the presence of minority students and the existence of diversity need to be justified, but meanwhile segregation in physics is tacitly accepted as normal or good”, the scientists wrote. “Their brief made the case that affirmative action is a hindrance for students admitted through affirmative action who pursue degrees in science and engineering”.
Liberal justices, on the other hand, support affirmative action.
The justice was alluding to the hotly debated “mismatch” theory, the idea that students given a leg up when applying to competitive universities because of racial consideration are more likely to fail than if they had gone to a less competitive school with similarly prepared students.
Their brief noted, “But various studies provide empirical evidence that the “mismatch” theory is nothing more than a myth”, they said in their court filing.
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“Notably, one study found that selectivity was an important factor with a statistically significant effect on African American graduation rates”.
