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Thursday 25th of April 2024

Affirmative action as expected, the court has inverted the 14th.  an amendment written explicitly to directly  ameliorate the conditions of race hierarchy becomes in conservative hands an amendment that says it’s illegal to try to directly ameliorate the conditions of race hierarchy Jamelle Bouie, 10:09 AM – Jun 29, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Affirmative action [T]he Court’s holding is based on the fiction that racial inequality has a predictable cutoff date. Equality is an ongoing project in a society where racial inequality persists. Sonia Sotomayor, dissent in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v.  Harvard College and University of North Carolina © 2023 Kwiple.com
Affirmative action Today, the Court concludes that indifference to race is the only constitutionally permissible means to achieve racial equality in college admissions.  That interpretation of the Fourteenth Amend- ment is not only contrary to precedent and the entire teachings of our history … but is also grounded in the illusion that racial inequality was a problem of a  different generation. … Ignoring race will not equalize a society that is racially unequal. What was true in the 1860s, and again in 1954, is true today: Equality requires acknowledgment of inequality. Sonia Sotomayor, dissent in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v.  Harvard College and University of North Carolina © 2023 Kwiple.com
Ask candidates … What will you do to decrease racial inequality? © 2015 Kwiple.com
By the numbers There are 286,266 disenfranchised felons in Alabama, or 7.62% of the state's voting-age population. More than half of those disenfranchised felons are black, despite the fact that African Americans made up only 26.8% of the state's population as of July 2016, according to a US census estimate. … Of the more than 280,000 disenfranchised felons in Alabama, 143,924 are black, according to the Sentencing Project. That means that disenfranchised felons make up 15.11% of the state's voting-age African American population. The Guardian, October 4, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Freedom of speech Wouldn't you love to see one of the NFL owners, when somebody disrespects our flag, to say, “Get that son of a bitch off the field right now. Out! He's fired. He's fired!” Donald Trump, on NFL players who kneel during singing of the national anthem as a protest against racial injustice © 2017 Kwiple.com
Kwiplers say Inequality breeds corruption © 2018 Kwiple.com
Kwiplers say Inequality is man-made by men with vested interests © 2015 Kwiple.com
Profiles in courage Roger Goodell, commissioner of the NFL, the world's most lucrative sports league, – fearing losing revenue because yokels bought Trump's and Russian imposter account BoycottNFL's malarkey that players' protests against racial injustice were protests against the flag – sent a memo to owners saying players – 70% of whom are black – should stop protesting in public © 2017 Kwiple.com
Racial inequality America was 200 years a slave state; 100 years an apartheid state; and just over 50 years a non-racial democracy. The concept of equality is relatively new. Gary Younge © 2017 Kwiple.com
Racial inequality I cannot stand and sing the anthem. I cannot salute the flag; I know that I am a black man in a white world. Jackie Robinson, I Never Had It Made:  An Autobiography of Jackie Robinson  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Racial inequality Malcolm X's vision of black politics, centered on putting community issues first, has collapsed under the weight of the Democratic Party's general uneasiness about tackling racial inequality and under the guidance of a race-neutral black president who distances himself from issues and policies targeted at eradicating racial inequality. Fredrick C. Harris, The Price of the Ticket   © 2016 Kwiple.com
Racial inequality Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free persons, including those bound to service for a Term of Years and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons. Article 1, Section 2, Paragraph 3 of the United States Constitution, a.k.a. “The Three-Fifths Compromise” © 2015 Kwiple.com
Racial inequality Today’s decision further entrenches racial inequality by making these pipelines to leadership roles less diverse. Sonia Sotomayor, dissent in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v.  Harvard College and University of North Carolina © 2023 Kwiple.com
Racial inequality The ultimate goal is racial equality of opportunity. Sonia Sotomayor, dissent in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v.  Harvard College and University of North Carolina © 2023 Kwiple.com
 
Sleepers at the wheel say This has nothing to do with race. Donald Trump, on calling any NFL player who kneels during singing of the national anthem in protest of racial injustice in America a “son of a bitch” who should be fired  © 2017 Kwiple.com