Fewer racial minorities in college will help racial minorities

In a methodical and scholarly decision written by Chief Justice John Roberts, the Supreme Court this week did what I predicted last fall they would do. They said racial discrimination in college admissions is unconstitutional.

Several other Justices joined Roberts’ decision while also writing their own concurrences, including Justice Clarence Thomas in an emotion-packed opinion of Constitutional originalism that would do proud his old mentor, Justice Antonin Scalia.

It’s a landmark decision that is far more important than last year’s Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade (unless you happen to be a fetus). I take personal delight that the named defendant history will saddle with the loss is Harvard, a place that once rejected my application to law school and, more importantly, is the vanguard of the liberal intelligentsia.

Expect Harvard and other colleges to respond to the Supreme Court ruling by cheating. They’ll continue their racial discrimination but they’ll hide it better. Leftists have no respect for the rule of law. For them, it’s all about the rule of power.

But in the coming years, there will be follow-up Supreme Court decisions rejecting racial discrimination in hiring and promotions in companies. In contrast to colleges, companies will be less inclined to cheat their way around those decisions, partly because they respect the rule of law more than colleges do, and also because they respect profit-generating merit more than colleges do.

Racial discrimination is thus once again illegal in America. We’re returning to a land with a God-given equal opportunity to exert one’s efforts, not a Marxist mantra of equal results regardless of those efforts.

Despite the dire predictions of bigoted old white virtue-signaling liberals at MSNBC who think racial minorities are incapable of exerting effort, the big winners in this decision are racial minorities themselves.

Here’s why.

Unless you plan a career in law or medicine where it’s a prerequisite, college has become a scam. Even in technical fields like engineering and computers, notables such as Bill Gates and Steve Jobs dropped out of college. One of my favorite opinion writers is James Taranto, currently in charge of the opinion page at the Wall Street Journal. He, too, is a college dropout.

Those guys wound up doing alright, as did millions of other people who never went to college.

Colleges these days don’t teach western civilization; they disdain merit as a white construct; they say there are 57 genders; they give degrees in English Lit without mentioning William Blake; they enjoy pretending that ancient Egyptians were sub-Saharan Blacks even though they know they weren’t; they teach minorities especially that they’re victims; and they indoctrinate helpless, hapless students 24/7 with lefty professors who drove away their last remaining conservatives about the time they condescended Barack Obama as the smartest president in history and his wife as the most beautiful First Lady.

They do all that while charging students a quarter-mil, which gets loaned for payback over a lifetime of lousy earnings.

Minorities especially get funneled away from the STEM fields where they might actually learn that 2 + 2 = 4. Their job prospects are consequently limited to the educational-industrial complex. They become DEI czars whose job is to funnel the next generation of minorities to the same dead end.

One thing about all the victim shtick injected into these kids is rich with irony. They are indeed victims – not victims of society, but victims of their college, its faux teaching, and its overpriced tuition.

Racial minorities in particular have been exploited to engorge rich college endowments with billions of dollars and to engorge fat liberal guts with satiating virtue. It’s they who are the big losers in this Supreme Court decision — the unholy alliance of greedy colleges who want to get even richer and sanctimonious liberals drunk on their supposed virtue and dizzy with their emo-bation

Maybe the Supreme Court’s decision will give these kids that colleges exploited for two generations an opportunity to take a deep breath. Join the Peace Corps. Enlist in the Navy. Go to a trade school. Start a business. Get a real job as a carpenter, a plumber, an entrepreneur. Found another Apple Computer.

Learn to rely on yourself and think for yourself. Reject the insult of government handouts and liberal pity. Learn to meet a payroll and pay a mortgage. Raise a family. Discover that despite what the self-serving establishment tells you, you’re not a victim, except of their low expectations.

Grow up, and become a man or a woman. (Don’t become both.)

Now if only we could also devise a way to have fewer white people in college, too...

Glenn Beaton practiced law in the federal courts, including the Supreme Court. His book “High Attitude – How Woke Liberals Ruined Aspen” is available at Amazon and Barnes and Noble.