Massachusetts business owners were denied access to COVID relief because of the color of their skin
The COVID-19 pandemic was hard for small businesses everywhere. But when Massachusetts issued orders for "non-essential" businesses to close their doors, the owners of its small businesses could at least apply for a grant to help offset their losses. Or, more accurately, some of them could apply. Brian Dalton is a single father who has spent mos ...
Wall Street Journal : How Schools Flout the Supreme Court’s Affirmative-Action Ruling
Even before the Supreme Court's landmark June ruling that Harvard and the University of North Carolina were guilty of discriminating against Asian-Americans, some were confident schools would find a way to keep doing it. Virginia's Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology is now showing how. When the high court decided to take S ...
Quillette : The Peculiar Silence in the Students for Fair Admissions Decision
To hear almost anyone tell it, racial preferences in university admissions are dead. But this pervasive sense of finality belies a curious silence in the Supreme Court's decision in Students for Fair Admissions. The Court never expressly overrules the line of precedent that has allowed universities to discriminate for the last 50 years. Without a d ...
A California law mandating ‘implicit bias’ training for medical professionals violates the First Amendment
When most people talk about free speech violations, they mean censorship—the prohibition of certain speech. And while that's certainly the version that gets more attention in the media, there's another kind of free speech violation that is possibly even more insidious: the compelling of certain speech. Dr. Azadeh Khatibi is an ophthalmologist ...
Fox News : Reparations activists come for the children
The California Reparations Task Force hopes that its final report and recommendations will be "an example for not only other states but this nation as a whole..." Berkeley Unified School District is among those hoping to take its cues from the state task force. But because the state task force's recommendations advantage or disadvantage students ...
The California Reparations Task Force Report : A blueprint for discriminatory central planning
Despite two long years of intensive study, research, and public hearings, the California Reparations Task Force has come to the mistaken conclusion that the way to end systemic racism is by injecting more race into the system. The Task Force's final report provides a flurry of policy proposals as reparations for the damage to African Americans f ...
How California’s trucking regulations are impacting a Pennsylvania small business owner
Brian Wanner never dreamed of owning a business as a child. He wanted to be a farmer, like his father. He has a deep connection to the land and still maintains his passion for farming to this day. But after the Pennsylvania farm his family rented was sold when he was 18, Brian found another passion—driving trucks to deliver other farmers' food to ...
Martin Luther King Jr. would have failed UC Santa Cruz’ diversity, equity, and inclusion test
When Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his powerful I Have a Dream speech, he spoke of his hope that his "four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." King dreamed of a world where people were judged on their individual merits—where all men we ...
National Review : For University of California Faculty, It’s DEI or Die
‘If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion." This quote from the Supreme Court's decision in West Virginia Board of Education v. Barnette, striking down state laws mandating the Pledge o ...