Affirmative action

They are so racialized.

A dumbass white boy convinced Asians that affirmative action was hurting them.

They allied with the white boy, took it to the US Supreme Court, and the racist white motherfuckers on the US Supreme Court erased, destroyed affirmative action.

And the data show that Asians acceptance to colleges, universities, employment actually dropped after destroying affirmative action.

And black people employment rate acceptance to college, to colleges and universities remained the same.

White people dropped also.

A waste of time believing that affirmative action elimination would give them a helping hand.

Proving that it was never about giving black people anything.

I give-

They rev- they repealed the Affirmative Action order of the federal government

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I give them a point though because they're, they're actually on it, and Harmeet's on it, and-

And so from the inauguration of the kind of rank and file movement among police to develop political power, it was reactionary in, [chuckles] in the, in the most literal sense that they were reacting to the growing political power of Black people and progressives who supported anti-racist causes and wanted to change what governance in the United States looked like along those lines.

And it coincided with affirmative action as policy.

And so I show in the book that there, there were some, getting back to a, a, an earlier question you asked, there were some police union leaders who would have self-identified as, quote, unquote, "liberal or progressive." They thought that the labor movement should not be considered the enemy necessarily.

But they saw affirmative action as antithetical to fairness.

Unions, police unions were making the argument that the old ways that police departments worked, where there was, uh-- where who you knew really mattered, there was nepotism, favoritism, um, political f-favors given out to people, um, that, that this was inimical to, to a, a kind of colorblind, what they would have called a colorblind and, and fair approach to hiring and, um, promotion.

So affirmative action they saw as conflicting with this.

And so there were many, many legal battles in the, um, beginning in, in the nineteen seventies and continuing all the way, you know, for [chuckles] many, many years after that about questions of affirmative action.

And police unions were generally not on the side of affirmative action.

For me, as a Nigerian British person, going into South Africa, if I was presented with the same form, I would instinctively take black African.

But actually, in the context of South Africa, it's used to work out who gets affirmative action.

And actually, I don't qualify for affirmative action.

So I'm not actually black African, even though I am black African.

Roots and ricka, ricka ricka flow.

You're obviously Montana, just tick black African.

And there were some people who were like, you can't tick black African because again, if you're mixed, you're taking, am I taking, that was the dilemma I was in.

I'd be taking, am I taking something from someone or falsely identifying myself? There were other people pointing out that you can actually be prosecuted for choosing the wrong box and Because it's attached to affirmative action to address historical injustices.

Okay.

Bartlett doesn't wanna talk about affirmative action, right?

Yeah.

This is an issue.

And CJ also is against affirmative action because her dad got passed up for many superintendent or higher education positions by what she deemed were less qualified candidates.

Mm-hmm.

And now CJ's dad is slipping.

I think she is grieving her father, and so she's-

In fact, we advocate it.

We have a-- We would like affirmative action to be doled out to us and, uh, not others and so forth.

Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

So are we...

I- is it...

Could, could we say affirmative action was a good idea at the time? It seemed like it was okay.

Yeah, fine.

Mm-hmm.

Wuhu sɛ Ghana sɛ sɛ yapase the affirmative action law no and yɛpɛ sɛ ɛnni ɔman no mmra no ɛnɛ ɛfuo no.

Mm-hmm.

And that is why ayɛ so yɛde ahyɛ yɛ constitution o. Ɛti as a women organizer no, woaba bɛ hwɛ to make sure sɛ ɛma yɛ adea, wobɛka bi a mama, wobɛko a mama.

[speaking in foreign language] ABY.

Mm-hmm.

And I know say there are a lot of women are, [speaking in foreign language] but because women encouragement [speaking in foreign language] so now me [speaking in foreign language] complementing affirmative action [speaking in foreign language] for the parliament.

So we'll give them orientation.

Well, in one of these conversations, Justice Alito is speaking with The Washington Times.

was discussing how the lower courts, quote unquote, haven't gotten the message when it comes to the Supreme Court's rulings on affirmative action and guns.

Now, there's also a story that he knows who leaked the Supreme Court draft on the Dobbs decision, which led to the overturning of Roe versus Wade.

which led to the threats against justices to which the Biden administration said, good, we like it when justices get threatened.

So that was my argument then, and it's my argument now.

I think it's interesting that Justice Alito brings this up.

But the idea that the lower courts haven't gotten the message about the Supreme Court's rulings on affirmative action and to some extent guns.

Well, on the gun part, it's very simple.