The fight against racial preferences is just beginning
Hudson Crozier
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When the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action in higher education admissions, some were skeptical that schools would just roll over and give up racial preferences. The University of Nebraska-Lincoln has confirmed those doubts.
The publicly funded university has a “Black Public Media Residency” program “for Black filmmakers, creative technologists, and artists who need access to emerging-tech equipment, studio facilities, or workspace.” It specifically calls for “projects in which a person of African descent is in a key creative position.”
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“The second team member does not need to be Black or of African descent,” it adds.
Those in charge of the program employ the same reasoning that the Supreme Court condemned by citing the “low numbers of Black filmmakers, executives and artists.” Forced diversity is plainly illegal. With all the evidence out in the open, the Legal Insurrection Foundation has responded with a complaint to the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights.
The program is “particularly pernicious,” the group’s founder noted, because it “puts students in the position of choosing among their peers focused on race” and makes them “complicit” in the discrimination.
Despite the slam-dunk nature of the case, one can hardly expect the Education Department to respond while Joe Biden is president. For one thing, his administration is not known for respecting the conservative high court’s decisions.
Like his boss, Education Secretary Miguel Cardona condemned the court for ruling against the anti-white discrimination regime. He even promised higher education leaders, “We will continue working with you to raise the bar for inclusivity and work intentionally to better support students of color, because the inequities that exist in higher education access and outcomes remain unacceptable.”
The Biden administration has also been repeatedly rebuked by federal courts for race-based government relief programs. So far, it is unclear if its efforts against meritocracy in higher education will be as brazen.
This unpopular and discriminatory philosophy has festered for decades in institutions in which the Left has control, and it will not let go of it easily. Removing it will be painful, like pulling a rotted tooth. But they will be healthier for it.
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Hudson Crozier is a summer 2023 Washington Examiner fellow.