I hope you don’t think the Senate hearings over U.S. Supreme Court Justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh is just about reversing Roe v. Wade, and the right to choose.
That’s one big issue, for sure. But Kavanaugh’s nomination is about institutionalizing the trend at the highest court to reverse everything that makes American society coincide with a sense of racial diversity and fairness.
Kavanaugh would be the deciding vote in a 5-4 reversal of modern American life as issues come before the court. For higher education, it goes right to the core of diversity and what we do about making higher education a reality for all people.
Right now, it’s legal to consider race in admissions. It’s the law of the land, and no matter how much diversity advocates want to beleive it’s settle law, it’s not.
Not when zealots can file suit against Harvard and threaten how race can be used in admissions by every school in the land.
That’s why the Justice Department official support of the suit against Harvard over how it admits Asian Americans last Friday was significant; that’s even though the department had already tipped its hand in July when it erased Obama Administration guidance on affirmative action from all official websites.
It was back during another long holiday weekend, when all the bad stuff gets dumped.
