IS SUPREME COURT JUSTICE ANTONIN SCALIA A RACIST?
(Mensaje se repite en Español)
While I have never much liked conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, I would take exception with calling him a racist for the following comments he recently made during oral arguments in the Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin case:
"There are those who contend that it does not benefit African Americans to 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 less - a slower-track school where they do well."
"...most of the black scientists in this country don't come from schools like the University of Texas. They come from lesser schools where they do not feel that they're being pushed ahead in classes that are too too fast for them."
In his comments what never occurs to Scalia or any of the people like him is that these comments are rather indicative of an entitled White American whose Sicilian immigrant father encounter none of the limitations and assured damage that is endemic to just being raised Black in American. It mysteriously never occurs to a smart person like Scalia to ask why it is that the son of an Italian immigrant has a chance of doing better in America than people who have been here for 400 years.
Implicit and self-serving in the Scalia's refusal to make any accommodation to what has been the systematic dismantling of Black identity in this country is a belief base on the idea: Well, my father came to this country with nothing, worked hard, and was successful- so why can't Black people do the same? Ignored is the fact that Scalia's White father more than likely got off the boat with the address of an earlier Italian immigrant or community, which could make his transition easier. And while their has been anti-Catholic or Italian feelings at various times in this country, such feeling are dwarfed by the unrelenting systematic attack on African Americans. And this attack is not just overt, but comes from denying them access to the kind of excellent schools both Scalia and his father immediately had access to.
It is almost as if Blacks have to be maintained as an inferior and underachieving element in our society so we will not finally have to address the reality that we have systematically continued to decimate a people who are just like us...if they are finally given the opportunity we choose to give even to White immigrants before them.
I would go a step further and even agree with Scalia that the average Black has a better chance of success in a "less-advanced school." But unlike Scalia, I would ask why that is? If Scalia bothered to do this, he would find that the vast majority of Black students still come from inferior still de facto segregated schools 61 years after the Supreme Court said in Brown vs. Board of Education that such segregation makes these schools "inherently unequal." But Scalia's present Supreme Court and all levels of state and federal legislative, executive and judicial branches continue to ignore this illegal reality that continues to turn out premeditated Black underachievement.
Could any people not be functionally inferior after such a systematic effort over hundreds of years to make them that way? It is rather self-serving and convenient to now declare Blacks "equal," so that the financial and moral responsibility for cleaning up this mess remains avoided. Ironically, the cost and work necessary for finally cleaning up the mess is far less expensive both financial and morally than the course we have presently chosen.
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