The Supreme Court in 1954 unanimously declared in Brown v. Board of Education that racial discrimination in schools is unconstitutional.

The reaction of Democrats was indignation and defiance. Democrat Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus called out the state National Guard to prevent Blacks from entering white schools.

Democrat Virginia Senator Harry Byrd organized the “Southern Manifesto” calling for Brown to be reversed and vowing never to implement it. It was signed by 99 Democrats but only two Republicans, including all but two of the Democrat senators from states in the former Confederacy. Democrats in Virginia passed the Stanley Plan, named after Democrat Virginia Governor Thomas Stanley, barring any state school receiving state funds from following the Brown ruling.

Democrat-controlled legislatures across the South closed many schools to avoid having to integrate them. The Democrat legislature of Florida passed a resolution declaring Brown “null and void.” A Democrat member of the Ku Klux Klan murdered a Black civil rights activist for daring to file a lawsuit to enforce Brown in Mississippi.

Democrat Alabama Governor George Wallace personally stood in the doorway to block Black enrollment at the University of Alabama.

A few years later, this racial hysteria fueled widespread Democrat opposition to the 1964 Civil Rights Act, including a 60-day filibuster in the Senate led by such notable Democrats as Al Gore Sr., William Fulbright, and Robert Byrd.

Fast forward three generations (or backward, one might argue). The dream of Martin Luther King, Jr. for a society where people are judged not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character has turned into a nightmare where elite colleges – supposedly our intelligentsia – sort and admit applicants by race.

At Harvard, Asian applicants need a SAT score about 140 points higher than whites and 450 points higher than Blacks. Whites need a SAT score about 310 points higher than Blacks. In short, Harvard as a matter of policy discriminates against Asians vis-à-vis both whites and Blacks, and against whites vis-à-vis Blacks.

(In the realm of unintended (I hope) consequences, this bias toward Blacks produces a high dropout rate for Blacks. Many of the admitted Blacks are in over their heads in trying to compete against whites and Asians who scored several standard deviations higher on the SAT. But social engineers never really care about the consequences of their engineering; they engage in it because it makes them feel good and virtuous. Indeed, Harvard’s racial discrimination is something it has bragged about.)

The Supreme Court is likely to declare this racial discrimination unconstitutional in a decision due in the next two weeks. But that’s not the end of it.

Harvard is already planning to circumvent the ruling. It plans to continue its racial discrimination, but hide it better. One tactic is to stop considering standard admission tests like the SAT. It’s the disparity in SAT scores that is the smoking gun in the Harvard case.

Some colleges have already done that. Or, even worse, they’ve made SAT scores in the application optional. The effect of this is to allow favored minorities to omit their scores so that they don’t get adversely compared to the scores of the white applicants, while effectively requiring whites to include their scores so that the college has a yardstick to compare whites against one another.

This not only effectively and deliberately prevents any comparison among the SAT scores of Asians, whites, and Blacks, thereby concealing the college’s discrimination against Asians and whites. It also removes the lower Black scores from the overall average, thereby increasing the college’s apparent SAT average while actually decreasing the real average. It becomes a way to game the college rankings.

OK, that’s not exactly the same as standing in the doorway to prevent Asians or whites from entering the college, à la George Wallace, but the intent and effect will be the same. Many colleges will deliberately circumvent a Supreme Court decision outlawing their racial discrimination. Shame on them.

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