Hear Supreme Court Justice’s Controversial Comments About Black Students

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is taking heat for comments he made from the bench that some are calling racist.

Justice Scalia stunned the courtroom during oral arguments in an affirmative action case Wednesday when he cited research suggesting that most black scientists did not go to prestigious research universities such as the University of Texas at Austin, whose racial preferences policy was the subject of the hearing.

“I’m just not impressed by the fact that the University of Texas may have fewer [African-Americans]”, Scalia said in regards to the case. “They come from lesser schools where they do not feel that they’re that they’re being pushed ahead in classes that are too too fast for them”.

This supplemental program has been targeted in a lawsuit by Abigail Fisher, a white applicant who was rejected by the university in 2008 who claims that she was rejected because of her race. Of course, some of the people who qualify based on their performance not only belong in the school, but come out ready for the world regardless of their skin color.

Heriot, a University of San Diego law professor, blamed race-conscious policies for producing “unmarketable communications majors”, “underwater basket-weaving majors” and “grievance studies majors”.

The justice was alluding to the hotly debated “mismatch” theory, the idea that students given a leg up when applying to competitive universities because of racial consideration are more likely to fail than if they had gone to a less competitive school with similarly prepared students. Thus, affirmative action was a negative for these minority students.

The Supreme Court’s decision on the case is expected to released by June.

Rep. G.K. Butterfield, D-N.C., chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus called the comments “disgusting, inaccurate, and insulting to African Americans”. Fisher has since graduated from Louisiana State University and is working as a financial analyst, which raises the legal question of her continued standing, and the practical issue: How were you so injured by this inherently subjective process? Because many high schools are effectively segregated in Texas, the plan results in a large number of African American and Hispanic students being admitted to state universities, including UT-Austin.

Because the vast majority of students and science majors do not go to these elite institutions.

“I worry that Black students who DO have what it takes will not even apply to the university for fear of believing the negative things being said about their abilities, or lack thereof”, Allen-Crowder wrote.

According to an August 2015 Gallup study, 58% of Americans overall support affirmative action, including just 38% of Republicans and 55% of Independents.

“Scalia’s endorsement of racist theories has frightening ramifications”, Mr. Reid said.

Both comments came in the context of cases relating to the application of affirmative action in college admissions.