Ideally, the Court will go further, and abolish all race-based preferences currently doled out by the government in the name of “diversity” and “equity.” Theoretically, it could even ban the government from collecting race-based data, to prevent it from being abused to racially discriminate. A ruling of that scope would be one of the greatest victories for the American people and their historic values in the country’s history.
But Revolver must caution against overexuberance. Affirmative action is not something that can be crushed with a single decree of the Supreme Court. Affirmative action, quotas, and other forms of ethnic favoritism and patronage have become integral to the American system. Rooting it out will be a long struggle — a struggle that American patriots must be ready to fight. The Supreme Court is not going to rescue us singlehandedly. Ultimately, we must rescue ourselves.
To get an idea of how stacked the system is in favor of racial discrimination, just look at the amici briefs filed in Students for Fair Admissions. A group of nearly seventy American companies — including Google, Facebook, General Motors, Northrop Grumman, Bain and Company, and Procter and Gamble — begged the court to preserve affirmative action, because they “rely on universities to create a pipeline of diverse leaders.”
About ten percent of all federal contracts, worth more than $50 billion per year, are set aside for small businesses owned by “disadvantaged” groups.
Many of the groups named above, such Indians or Japanese, are among the highest–earning ethnic groups in America, but they still gobble up set-asides as a reward for not being one vile palefaces. White business owners routinely go to prison when they try to nab these racial set-asides for themselves.
These “disadvantaged” contracts (as well as SBA loans for “disadvantaged” businesses) are available to non-citizen U.S. immigrants, by the way, meaning that America has a system where we will literally pluck people out of foreign countries, bring them here, declare them the victims of native white racism, and then bestow money upon them as a reward.
Even with standards falling by the day, only about 28 percent of black Americans between 25 and 39 have a college degree of any kind, let alone the credentials that gain access to America’s most elite professions. And so, like with any other commodity, the market adapts. America imports thousands of Africans for the same reason it imports copper or cadmium: they are a scarce natural resource, and demand exceeds domestic supply.
Such a system that is so entrenched, all across American life, cannot be torn up with a single 5-4 or 6-3 Supreme Court ruling. It will require a sustained legal and regulatory offensive across America, led by patriotic Americans who reject the lie that it is “racist” to treat all Americans equally regardless of skin color.