Ward Connerly: SCOTUS allows universities to use affirmative action in ‘perverse’ way, legally discriminate by race

Ward Connerly, President of American Civil Rights Institute, discusses the harmful effects that the Supreme Court’s ruling on affirmative action in universities has done to American society. Connerly says that this began, “because the American people, primarily whites during this period so that I felt a certain sense of guilt I think it was that's how I would describe it John, and they wanted to allow diversity to occur. This diversity sounds so does seductive, surely we want diversity but we want non-discrimination more than I think we want diversity. But we didn't fight back, we didn't push back, we bent the knee to the center cause for celebrating our diversity. And as a result, we've broken the law in many cases.” The long time critic of affirmative action comments, that initially when “the Court allowed the use of race and said that it was a matter of a compelling state interest, diversity that is, that ruling has allowed universities to use race in a very perverse sort of way.” Commenting, “the court said you could use race as one of many factors, but in the real world, one of many factors means everything, because when you're looking at a person, and deciding whether to use their race, nothing else really matters, but their color, and thats what we are faced with right now.” Connerly goes on to say that President Biden promised to be the most progressive president if he won, and that’s what he has accomplished. “President Biden and Vice President Harris have adopted the pursuit of equity as their motto, and that means race this and race that and it's a far cry from what President Kennedy said which was, that race has no place in American life or the law. So this is bad for the country, really bad.” Connerly, who served on the University of California Board of Regents, uses the school as an example, saying “at the bottom of virtually every legal document of the university, it says the university does not discriminate based on race, sex, color, sexual orientation, etcetera.” “It’s a lie, we discriminate big time, because the university has a view in its mind of what the student body ought to look like, what the faculty ought to look like, what the staff ought to look like, and they do their dastardly deeds and nobody fights it.” See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .