ICYMI amongst the chorus of outrage over Donald Trump's latest round of racist comments, the Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments this week in Fisher v. the University of Texas, a landmark case challenging the use of race in college admissions –– and Justice Scalia just lost his goddamn mind.
While discussing the case, which challenges the use of race as a "holistic" factor used by the University of Texas at Austin to admit roughly 25 percent of its freshman class (the other 75 percent are admitted using a purely mathematical formula), Scalia straight up said that black students would benefit from attending "slower" schools where they perform better.
Scalia said: "There are those who contend that it does not benefit African Americans to get them into the University of Texas where they do not do well, as opposed to having them go to a less-advanced school, a slower-track school where they do well. One of the briefs pointed out that most of the black scientists in this country don't come from schools like the University of Texas. They come from lesser schools where they do not feel that they're being pushed ahead in classes that are too fast for them."
I mean, Scalia has a point. That's why we make sure that all schools are separated by race, and ensure that whites and blacks play on separate athletic teams. OH WAIT, there's this funny little thing called the Constitution that ensures that all students have equal, not separate, access to educational opportunities. I didn't finish law school but even I remember that much.
In case that wasn't enough, Scalia added that "I'm just not impressed by the fact the University of Texas may have fewer [blacks]. Maybe it ought to have fewer. I don't think it stands to reason that it's a good thing for the University of Texas to admit as many blacks as possible."
There's nothing worse than integration, am I right? It's ridiculous to expect colleges to consider race when they have sterling (but apparently not academically sound) applicants like Abigail Fisher, who are so entitled to their privilege that they will take a single college rejection all the way to the SCOTUS.
Harvard Law, I'm coming after you next. I'm sure my mediocre grades had nothing to do with my rejection letter –– It's all those damn black people stealing my spot, right? Just ask Scalia.
