Ward Connerly was the keynote speaker at last year’s annual Pope Center conference. He argued that it is time for America to get past its fixation on race (and other ways of classifying people).
In an essay posted yesterday at Minding the Campus, Connerly takes a look at the Supreme Court’s recent decision on school “integration” (which is to say, social engineering by leftists to achieve “diversity”) and doesn’t think much of the excuses offered by a majority of the justices for retaining “affirmative action” policies in education.
What should be perfectly clear by now is that the sort of “diversity” the leftists demand in education is neither necessary nor sufficient for students to do well. The business of preferring some students because of their ancestry appeals to leftists, however, because it allows them to bask in the glow of the idea that they’re working to make the world a better place. That idea happens to be false, but if you say so, you’re apt to be treated as rudely as Ward Connerly often is.
