Black people have enough to deal with without taking on the troubles of others. Nevertheless, though everyone has vilified Black Americans, including other Black people, sometimes deservedly, African-Americans have steadfastly supported oppressed people here in the United States and where else they are.
Now, I recognize that I just made a broad and general statement that some would argue is too broad. I am aware that in everything, there are exceptions to the rule. I am speaking in general about the decency, kindness, and goodness of the average African-American with whom I would like to associate myself.
Black Americans are undoubtedly the conscience of the Nation. Many oppressed people from across the globe enter the United States and turn up their noses at our people, yet are beneficiaries of the blood, sweat, and tears of the very people they turn their noses at.
As I articulated in the video above, East Asians, in particular, seem to have a strategy they copied from Caucasians. That strategy is to be disrespectful to African-Americans through whose struggles they can elevate themselves and become something as first-generation Americans, something they could never accomplish in India, China, or any place else in Asia.
None of the Civil Rights battles won in the United States have any Asian names attached to them. Why? Because these are selfish people whose only interest is their own. For those reasons, I have consistently said that black people should fight our own battles and stop talking about black and brown people because these people are ingrates.
Most prominent Indians, or as we refer to them in Jamaica (Coolies), whether they are first-generation Americans or just came over, seem to see a strategy of trying to act white, wanting to attach themselves to the perception of power which is whiteness, regardless of how corrupt and immoral that construct is. Some have even shed their ancestral name and adopted European names, which is so laughable.
Bobby Jindal, Nimarata Nikki Randhawa (Nicky Haley), Vivek Ramaswamy,Danny Gaekwad, and many other Latinos/Hispanics have adopted that strategy, particularly those from Cuba and Mexico. Raphael Cruz and Marco Rubio are leading self-haters, not to mention the convicted proud boy criminal Enrique Tarrio.
The Affirmative action program was created to course-correct hundreds of years of injustice towards African ‑Americans. It wasn’t until 1978 that the Supreme Court ordered Black students to be considered to be adopted into institutions like Harvard, which had previously all but blocked young Black students from their campuses. It wasn’t just African-Americans who benefitted from the fights to get that decision, Indians, Hispanics, and others also benefitted.
Opponents of Affirmative action have always maintained that it was preferential treatment that allowed Blacks into institutions of higher learning as if the students didn’t have to tick all of the boxes that were required to enter those institutions.
They did not stop there; they pejoratively labeled Affirmative Action (Quotas).
Affirmative actions are not set-asides or quotas as they would have you believe; it is actions that are geared affirmatively at preventing students of color from being barred on the basis of their skin color. It ensures that institutions have a diverse student population, not a white monolithic one.
The illegitimate reactionary right-wing supreme court affirmed those racist points of view, although each and every one of the six right-wing frauds who voted to affirm those lies knows damn well that affirmative action has nothing to do with quotas and everything to do with course correction for hundreds of years of injustice.
Those hypocrites failed to mention that for generations, white students who were marginally or grossly unqualified were allowed into Institutions like Harvard, Yale, Colombia, the Wharton School of Business, and other institutions of higher learning through legacy admissions.
How else could George Bush have gotten into Yale and worse, how would Donald Trump have gotten into the Wharton School of Business? Name recognition and money. Again, every one of the six right-wing extremists on the court knows all too well that legacy admissions are the real issue that should be eliminated.
But this illegitimate Roberts court has no shame, no respect for settled law, and does not care that its actions are viewed as political. Its rulings are indeed acts of raw political power.
That is what makes it illegitimate.
The court majority made clear that it agreed with Students For Fair Admissions, which sued Harvard and UNC, claiming, among other things, that the schools discriminated against Asian American students who had SAT and grade scores higher than any other racial group, including whites, and who made up, at Harvard, for instance, 29% of the entering class last year. SFFA asserted that the number should have been higher than that, though Asians are just 7.2% of the U.S. population.
So in line with the privileges whites enjoy in the United States, entitled Asians though only 7.2% of the population and last year 29% of the freshman class at Harvard, believe they are entitled to have more spaces at Institutions of higher learning.
And so, Affirmative action was ended in colleges.
Talk about entitled; this is the very definition of a group of people in this country who have sacrificed nothing for the advancement or well-being of the country. You never see them on a picket line. They are never a part of any racial discrimination protest. Their only commitment is to themselves and their greed for power and the almighty dollar.
These are the people the illegitimate Roberts court acquiesced to and ended a program that was designed and had created a more even playing field.
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Mike Beckles is a former Police Detective, businessman, freelance writer, black achiever honoree, and creator of the blog mikebeckles.com.