That’s what Scalia was talking about in his concurrence; SCOTUS decided the case strictly on Title 7 grounds, but sooner or later, they will have to deal with the fact that disparate impact laws are incompatible with the equal protection clause of the Constitution.

This idea of diversity for the sake of diversity is moronic. The sooner we end affirmative action and other racial preference policy, the better off America–and the world–will be.

My only problem is, I think it’s time we quit talking about “discrimination” as well. It’s discrimination when you choose to hire a competent employee instead of a thief. It’s discrimination when you eat healthy food instead of candy. Discrimination isn’t a problem; racism is.

IMO, affirmative action and the politically correct diversity, have only increased the racial divide. Going from a society that values achievement and accomplishments based on one’s own effort, to lowering standards and giving people unearned/undeserved jobs has only weakened our society. It will continue to do so.

The Ricci case is a perfect example of this Discrimination. Do I want a fireman to show up knowing basic fire science, or do I want one who has the liberal’s right color? And who is going to decide the discrimination cases between two African-Americans, Latino vs. African-American? Or any other races not involving whites.

Randy, you are absolutely correct. It is Discrimination, pure and simple. Good point about how they have to figure out “how not to discriminate.” This issue is not going to go away, and I am glad. Discrimination can not be fixed, until they stop doing it!

Surprisingly given where I work and live, I haven’t been subjected to the sorts of indoctrination described here. But the language used to describe the processes and the scorings is,… well let’s just say even Humpty Dumpty would quickly get confused.

Have you ever heard of the “Equity Scorecard”? This is a snake oil being peddled by the Center for Urban Education (University of Southern California). They act as consultants and spread their poison to colleges and universities that wish to “increase their diversity.”

I have had to sit through their awful training. The system I work for contracted their services. Three consultants were flown from California to Wisconsin and delivered their sewerage at a resort in the Wisconsin Dells over a day and a half time. Precisely what you mention in your article was an extremely prominent part of their so-called training. In short, the point they wanted to drive home was that all whites are racists and we need training to learn not to be racists (they called this trained state of being, “equity thinking.”). All of the folks attending this conference were upper level administrators and faculty . . . so in other words, this poison is being spread from both the bottom up and the top down.

Mr. Streu, unfortunately, your article would be considered a prime example of “inequitable thinking” by the Equity Scorecard consultants. Believe me, you are right to regard that as a compliment. To me, though, your article is the simple truth and well written to boot. Thanks for putting this up.

Take Care, mailloux

The sad thing is that this mentality creates a backlash among non-minorities and defeats the purpose they claim to be addressing. But the honest truth is that the so-called diversity “advocates” (like the trainers in our classes and people like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson) have a vested interest in perpetuating discrimination. If we ever have a truly color-blind society, these folks are out of a job!