During the court case last week, Justice Antonin Scalia questioned whether admitting black students to universities like the University of Texas benefitted them or the institution.
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“There are some who contend that it does not benefit African-Americans to get them into the University of Texas where they do not do well, as opposed to having them go to a less-advanced school, a slower-track school where they do well”. I heard him, I was like, ‘Let me read it again, ‘ because I actually read it in print, and I’m going, I read a lot of stuff, and I’m going, ‘Woah, ‘ ” Trump said in an interview televised Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union”. “Like so many, Justice Scalia mistakes African-American as a proxy for low readiness, when in fact minority students in more selective colleges and universities not only graduate at relatively higher rates, but also secure high-paying jobs thereafter”.
“We share the outrage and dismay already expressed by many other groups and individual scientists over the comments of Justice Scalia… that affirmative action prevents black people from becoming scientists”, the physicists wrote.
The mogul has, however, been criticized for comments about the Black Lives Matter movement and for retweeting false, racially charged crime data from a non-existent group.
He said he was a little surprised when he read the oral argument, and when asked about his own views on affirmative action, he instead bragged about his black friends and slammed President Obama for doing “very little” for African-Americans. “I have just incredible relationships”. Scalia mentioned an amici brief that stated that the US “now has fewer African-American physicians, scientists, and engineers than it would have had using race-neutral [admissions] methods”. You look at unemployment, you look at all of the problems.
Ironically, Trump said Scalia was one of his favorite Supreme Court justices at a townhall in SC on Saturday, Twitchy.com noted. “But yeah, I was very surprised at Scalia’s statements actually”, he added.
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“Scalia’s terrific, but Clarence Thomas has been so consistent”, he said in Aiken, South Carolina.
