Now the clock for Jim/Jane Crow turns back as reactionary stupidity returns to the US like a rerun of something Norman Lear wouldn’t produce.
The Bannon whiteboard makes yet another stab at civil rights as the Trump DoJ now decides it will support so-called ‘reverse discrimination’ actions meant to dismantle affirmative action programs.
Jeff ‘King-Keebler’ Sessions and his tree-factory scabs will keep those Smurfs in their lane.
Who will be this administration’s Fisher test case … look for a James O’Keefe stunt(s).
“The announcement suggests that the project will be run out of the division’s front office, where the Trump administration’s political appointees work, rather than its Educational Opportunities Section, which is run by career civil servants and normally handles work involving schools and universities,” Times reporter Charlie Savage explained.
“The project is another sign that the civil rights division is taking on a conservative tilt under President Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions. It follows other changes in Justice Department policy on voting rights, gay rights and police reforms.”
Abigial Fisher’s subpar grades and unwillingness to attend another University of Texas campus for a term and then transfer to the Austin main campus, made her court case a RWNJ fundraising cause célèbre. She seemed to survive, getting a business degree at LSU, remaining a poster child warrior for stubborn snowflakery and a legal SCOTUS footnote as Fisher v. University of Texas.
The Supreme Court’s ruling in favor of affirmative action has given Abigail Fisher a new title next to “University of Texas reject”— she’s now Becky with the Bad Grades, too.
The major victory for affirmative action turned out to be a big win for Twitter users too, with the trending hashtag roasting Fisher, the white Texan who was denied admission to the university’s flagship campus in Austin in 2008.
She claimed she didn’t get in the school while African-American students with lower grades and test scores were admitted — except she didn’t graduate in the top 10% of her high school class and wouldn’t have been admitted either way, thanks to her mediocre grades.
And of the 47 students that were admitted with grades lower than hers, 42 of them were white.
168 black and Latino applicants who had better grades than Fisher were also turned down from that university, according to ProPublica.