Jade In NM on Spoutible

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A THREAD:
So Let's Get Real About "Affirmative Action"...

Today's ruling is neither shocking nor is it any substantively different from how this country has operated since 1619 when 20 and odd men first step onto what would become Virginia.

Let me expound.

12:05 PM - Jun 29, 2023

Jade In NM

@JadeinNM

2/13

Race has always been the key to admission in this country. Always. The "normal" process -- the standard process -- was that whiteness gained you entry, Blackness meant you were excluded.

12:09 PM - Jun 29, 2023

Jade In NM

@JadeinNM

3/13

Whiteness meant you could own land, and ride in any seat on a train or bus or public conveyance. You could sit at any table or lunch counter, ride on any elevator, drink from any water fountain, attend any school or university, see any doctor, or go to any hospital.

12:12 PM - Jun 29, 2023

Jade In NM

@JadeinNM

4/13

So when Black children were excluded from schools, their race was used as THE deciding factor in their admission. That was the status quo: Race used as means to exclude people was just perfectly fine because the norm of society was to be and remain as white as possible.

12:15 PM - Jun 29, 2023

Jade In NM

@JadeinNM

5/13

It is what white people wanted and were comfortable with, and remain comfortable with. Race used as a means to INCLUDE people is contrary to the natural order of whiteness as superior and preferred in this society. So in fact, all the Supreme Court did today was return white America to

12:17 PM - Jun 29, 2023

Jade In NM

@JadeinNM

6/13

its most comfortable position: dominance and supremacy. To be clear, the burden for creating a more inclusive society doesn't rest with Black folks, it rests with white people. You may be comfortable with nibbling around the edges of equality and equity but only so long as it doesn't upset

12:20 PM - Jun 29, 2023

Jade In NM

@JadeinNM

7/13

the apple cart. Whiteness (or white adjacence) is preferred. And white (and white adjacent) people will do everything in their power to preserve that. The problem with affirmative action for white folks is that it flipped the metric from the comfortable position of excluding Ruby Bridges

12:22 PM - Jun 29, 2023

Jade In NM

@JadeinNM

8/13

from kindergarten or James Meridith from the University of Mississippi on the account of them being too dark and making their potential classmates uncomfortable, to one where they had to be included in spite of that darkness.

12:24 PM - Jun 29, 2023

Jade In NM

@JadeinNM

9/13

The status quo has always been to preserve whiteness at any cost -- even when one is dead and gone being buried next to a similarly situated dead Black person is just too damn much, so even a cemetery must be segregated.

Race has always been used to exclude.

12:27 PM - Jun 29, 2023

Jade In NM

@JadeinNM

10/13

and the 13th, 14th, 15th, and 19th amendments have always been the anomalies to our purported quest for Constitutional equality. Dred Scott, Homer Plessy, Oliver Brown, et al who challenged this notion of the superiority of whiteness over Blackness,

12:35 PM - Jun 29, 2023

Jade In NM

@JadeinNM

11/13

of permanent white inclusivity and permanent black exclusion were always merely challenging what the Court so casually re-affirmed today: in this country, white is right, whiteness is the norm and exclusion is the goal.

12:38 PM - Jun 29, 2023

Jade In NM

@JadeinNM

12/13

Once again, in the plainest of plain English, what the Court said today is that race CAN BE used as a factor in admission to all things, so long as that factor is one that preserves white supremacy and is used to exclude Black people.

12:41 PM - Jun 29, 2023

Jade In NM

@JadeinNM

13/13

As for how to "solve" this dilemma, that is up to you folks because I'm not the one fighting so hard to exclude you on the basis of your race. Y'all figure it out.

End of thread.

12:43 PM - Jun 29, 2023

Bad Hombre Resistor

@BetaRayBob

In response to Jade In NM.

I liked Biden's suggestion today to US colleges. Instead of using race, use the applicant's ability to overcome adversity including that adversity that comes from systemic racism.

06:53 PM - Jun 29, 2023

Edward Holmes

@Homer1948

In response to Jade In NM.

Thank you!

05:59 PM - Jun 29, 2023

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