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June 29, 2023 - The Charlie Kirk Show
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The End of Affirmative Action as We Know it?
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Today on the Charlie Kirk show, affirmative action is not gone, but it's been weakened by the Supreme Court.
We go through the history of affirmative action, and we give you, I think, the most comprehensive, deep analysis.
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The Supreme Court of the United States have officially no, I don't want to say they've repealed.
That's too far.
6-3 Supreme Court of the United States decision, authored by John Roberts.
And this is all about affirmative action.
They've definitely struck a blow against affirmative action, but it goes too far to say that this is conclusive.
This is not the blow that we wanted, but it is a good one.
We're going to talk about really what's missing in this because there's one line in particular that the DEI folks, the race hustlers, are going to use to try to continue the regime of anti-racism.
But all things being equal, this is a good one.
And by the way, just we're going to unpack from this from every angle.
Reading Katanji Brown Jackson and Sodomayor's and Kagan's dissent, you look at it, you say, oh my goodness, like this is these people are so off the rails that how they were ever confirmed as Supreme Court justices is beyond us.
So let's go through the facts here.
Going back in time, and most people don't know the history of affirmative action.
I think it's really helpful to go through.
So today's ruling strikes a blow, a serious blow against the regime of affirmative action.
So what is affirmative action?
Well, affirmative action is a decades-long project by the race hustlers.
This was critical race theory before it was ever, let's say, a well-known concept.
CRT is super unpopular.
Moms showing up to school board meetings.
No one likes CRT.
Why is CRT deeply unpopular?
Because we would judge people based on their skin color, not on the content of their character.
We find that repulsive, and you should find that repulsive.
You should not judge somebody, grade somebody.
You should not take action against somebody based on how they look.
It's disgusting.
It's against who we are as Americans.
So you don't have to overthink that.
If somebody's coming to you in a meeting and they're a certain skin color and you automatically put a label on them, yes, we call that racism, stereotyping.
You should not engage in that.
Now, critical race theory brought that to the forefront where we heard these con artists, Ibrahim X. Kendi and Robin D'Angelo talk about this.
But most Americans, even during the CRT fights, we had CRT right in front of us the whole time in our federal hiring practices and yes, in college admissions and especially in college admissions.
Now, affirmative action is, believe it or not, a very unpopular thing.
Every time affirmative action goes to a ballot referendum, the race hustlers lose.
Every time affirmative action goes to some sort of a vote, those of us that stand for meritocracy, we actually win.
We say, hey, let's have some sort of colorblind country.
We want to strive towards that.
Even California, when it was on the ballot in California, voted on it in 2020, and affirmative action lost decisively.
Think about that.
In the blue of blue, California, affirmative action lost decisively in 2020.
So it's deeply unpopular.
And so the question behind, let's go back in time: 45 years ago, in Regents v. Baki, the Supreme Court said that the race-based quotas were unconstitutional, but that schools could give racial preferences for the sake of diversity.
That's a bunch of psycho-babble to basically say, well, you can't outwardly use affirmative action, but you could use racial preferences.
So you could use affirmative action.
And what's so interesting is that affirmative action has been this quiet, deliberate, concentrated campaign and infrastructure, and more importantly, a bureaucracy that has been directly at odds with American values as you and I have always seen them.
Affirmative action is inconsistent with the country that you and I believe in.
Affirmative action undermines the American dream.
So here we are always telling our kids about the MLK dream, which hilariously, one of the Supreme Court justices, I think it was Katangi Brown Jackson or Sodomayor, quoted MLK.
MLK's line is what I was raised in fourth, fifth, and sixth grade and seventh grade.
I remember we saw the speech that you shout, I dream of a country.
I have a dream that one day we will be judged by the contents of our character, not the color of our skin.
Boom.
That is inconsistent with affirmative action.
You have to choose.
Is it we want to judge people based on character and choices and their values, or are we going to judge people based on their skin color?
Don't have to overthink it.
By the way, if you judge people based on their skin color, you will become a third world country.
You will.
You'll have a very, very wealthy, rich oligarchy, but this idea of people being able to break out of their socioeconomic conditions, they will stay perpetually poor and perpetually in whatever their socioeconomic circumstances.
I don't want to live in that country.
This is a good step forward.
So anyway, the schools could give racial preference for the sake of diversity.
So in response to that specific decision, we got the DEI industrial complex with flagrant discrimination dressed up as diversity.
Now, in 2003, the court revisited affirmative action in Grutter v. Bollinger.
This time it declared that giving explicit bonus points, again, all these goofy, creative ways to just be racist, be racist against Asians, racist against white people.
It's another example of the war on white people that we've talked about before.
So in this Grutter v. Bollinger, it declared that giving explicit bonus points for admission based on race was unconstitutional, but allowed schools to consider race as part of a holistic process.
It also suggested that in 25 years, such discrimination would no longer be needed.
And we're just about on that window right now.
We're right in that window.
Now, that's a good question that I have as I was kind of preparing for this.
If you were to ask the race hustlers like Katanji Brown Jackson, all these people, hey, when would be a sunset date for your affirmative action policies?
When do you think you would be done?
They will never be done with this, ever.
They will never achieve equity.
It is a false promise to allow a relentless revolution to destroy your country.
Say, hey, if you have five more years, would that be satisfactory?
They've had 50 years of affirmative action.
What has it gotten the country?
Has it healed the nation and sorted out our differences?
Of course not.
What it's done is it's created hyper-racist acceptance policies that discriminate against Asians, Jews, white people.
Okay, so you can guess what happened next.
Colleges built huge, massive, leviathan-like, opaque admissions bureaucracies to practice flagrant discrimination.
But they dressed it up as a holistic process.
At Harvard admissions, counselors systematically rated Asians as deficient in personality to justify denying them admission.
Until today, Harvard was allowed to get away with it and to get away with the system where it explicitly rewarded people based on the color of their skin.
This should not have been a hard decision.
And quite honestly, we're going to get into the details.
This should have been a 9-0 decision.
The three left-wingers on the court that were defending it, they want a hyper-racist country because it makes them more powerful.
Remember, it's not just Harvard, it's UNC as well.
UNC Chapel Hill has an unbelievably racist process, and it's a state school in a red state.
Why has the red state put up with it?
Because this is an important lesson.
Remember, Republicans have been afraid to go after affirmative action, CRT, and all these things because they do not want to be called racist.
So this is a good win for us.
I'm not here to overly dramatize this, but let's be honest, it's not enough.
We're going to go into the details here because this decision could have been way better.
It's largely weak.
Now, this is important.
Red states now have a mandate right now from the Supreme Court to ban affirmative action.
Every red state across the country, Wyoming, Montana, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, the Dakotas, you need to convene a special session and pass a bill into law and saying affirmative action is dead on arrival at the University of Alabama, at the University of Georgia, or at South Dakota State University.
We're done.
Will they do that?
Well, the ball is in their court.
Today is a good day.
It's not a great day.
It's a good day.
It bloodies the nose of Harvard and it moves us in the right direction of challenging and weakening the diversity, equity, inclusion regime.
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This is about the American dream.
The American dream is not about skin color.
It's not.
That's Juneteenth.
It's one of the reasons why we sit against Juneteenth.
That's 1619 stuff.
Hyper emphasis on how people look.
You see, the left thinks that they can tell a lot about a person based on the color of their skin.
I can't tell anything based on somebody's skin, skin color, nothing.
When I sit down with somebody and a word has not yet been spoken, and it's somebody that's white or they're Asian or black, I know nothing about them.
The left thinks they have them all figured out.
We call that prejudice.
We call that stereotyping, but now we call that progress.
We believe in meritocracy, period.
But what is at the core of affirmative action?
At the core of affirmative action is a lie.
Like all major left-wing programs, there is a lie that then grows into massive public policy.
So remember, lockdowns, what was the lie of the lockdowns?
That 20% of the population was going to die if we don't have lockdowns.
Vaccine, what was the lie of the mandatory vaccine that this thing was going to protect us?
It was safe, it was effective, all that.
So, if you are able to pinpoint the root lie, then you're far more likely then to be able to make positive progress in disassembling whatever leviathan or diversity, equity, inclusion structure that they have built.
So, what is the lie?
The lie is so simple.
And Thomas Sowell wrote an entire book on it, which is one of the most powerful and honestly based pieces of literature on race and meritocracy.
It's very simple.
And I guarantee you, some people in this audience, some of you have probably fallen trap to this because I used to when I was in high school before I read my soul and I realized that it's this simple.
If you see disparate outcomes, is discrimination only to blame?
So, for example, if you see that blacks are not earning as much money as whites, is it because of racism, or could other factors, bigger factors, possibly be playing a role?
You see, the left tries to synthesize 60,000 different inputs, literally.
Is there a father around?
What are the cultural dynamics?
What's the city like that they grew up in?
What's the local public school?
Did they have a positive male figure?
Things that we know that actually helped.
Instead of trying to have a serious conversation or a comprehensive public policy agenda to address those things, they say, Look, blacks are not where we want them to be.
So, we're just going to then actively discriminate against white people to help them.
And by the way, it doesn't help anybody, it doesn't help the act, it doesn't help black Americans, and it doesn't help the college.
Well, it somewhat helps the colleges, it doesn't help anybody.
It's classic left-wing policy, it's just pure brute force.
It hurts basically everyone except the administrators of the actual policy.
Just like their pro-crime policies don't actually help blacks, they ruin their communities.
And there's so many different angles to this.
Thomas Sowell famously made the argument that you then get blacks with lower test scores.
And by the way, this is not some sort of conspiracy theory.
The dynamics are right here.
So, for example, how insane were Harvard's affirmative action policies?
Well, a black student in the 40th percentile of their academic index is more likely to get in than an Asian student in the 100th percentile.
So, a black in the 40th percentile of their academic index and an Asian in the 100th percent percentile.
And we're supposed to give preference to the black kid because he looks different than the Asian kid.
It's ridiculous, it's indefensible.
That's why the Supreme Court ruled the way they did.
There is no defense of this, regardless of how much white guilt or racial weight that you put on this, that's indefensible when you actually get to the documents.
There are five decades of active discrimination here.
Black students who do not have as high test scores end up getting admitted into colleges that, quite honestly, they might not be qualified for.
And it results in dropouts, it results in black students not feeling as if they're fit in place.
And this is not some sort of radical argument.
This is Thomas Sowell who made this argument.
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He said it leads to resentment, it leads to the black-only dormitory trend, it leads to the black-only graduation trend.
It's bad.
When you get discrimination, then you get nothing but negativity from there.
And it's an insult, by the way, to highly qualified blacks, an insult to everybody.
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The Supreme Court decision did not go far enough.
Let's just be very clear.
It did not go far enough.
But I'm also, I'm not going to be a black pill guy and say, oh, it's nothing but negative.
It's not nothing but negative.
It's probably a six out of 10.
Probably a D.
Okay, well, producer Andrews says C minus on the decision.
What's your grade, Blake?
B minus?
Wow.
For Black Pill Blake, that's a big deal.
B minus.
Okay, I'll take it.
So I'll grade there.
Let's just say it's a C or a B.
It's a move in the right direction, though.
And that's still a passing grade.
I said a D.
And let me tell you why.
Why am I saying that it's a D?
Why am I saying it's not as good as it could be?
Well, because John Roberts, who, yes, did vote correctly, he matched and he pulled rank, as you could probably imagine, around that nine-person table and said, I want to write the opinion.
So John Roberts did what John Roberts does.
Rights, rights, And there's this one part of the opinion that gives a little bit of a little bit of hope to the bad guys, a little bit of life to the CRT regime.
There's this one line in there where John Roberts effectively says that, well, if you do it differently, then it could be perfect.
Okay, there's nothing in the Constitution that doesn't allow accommodations to try to get rid of racism.
We're going to find the exact wording here.
Now, remember, this well could have gone beyond college.
He could have said that racial discrimination is wrong in federal hiring.
It could have been a real sweeping attack on racial bias.
Now, that is going to be the next challenge.
The next challenge will be getting rid of affirmative action and hiring practices.
Now, this could have imposed tougher rules to really crack the whip on affirmative action.
It could say that, quote, schools will always twist race to impose racial discrimination, so they just can't collect racial information at all.
By the way, that's what every red state needs to do right now.
Kansas, Texas, they need to pass rules that we're not collecting any racial information at all, period.
It's the same as when you make a dinner reservation.
Could you imagine when you make an let's just say you're booking an airline ticket or you're making a dinner reservation and it says while you're making an airline ticket reservation for American Airlines, as you're checking out, it says, What's your race?
What?
I'm just flying from Chicago to Los Angeles.
Why do you need my race?
No, what's your race?
We're going to collect that information.
We're not going to do anything with it.
And then you board the airplane, and suspiciously, all the white people are kind of not, they're like in the back or in the middle.
You're like, what's going on?
Are you just collecting information for your own purposes?
No.
American airlines or airlines work as meritocracies.
Somebody emailed us, Charlie, what is a meritocracy?
Okay, well, it's a system that has preference on work, ethic, also has an emphasis on how much effort you put into something, not on connections, not on immutable characteristics.
It's a pursuit of excellence, on quality and ability.
Now, here's the other thought crime that is necessary to say, and we're going to talk about this tonight on our thought crime program, which is when you pursue excellence, there will be people that are left behind.
That is the price of excellence.
Therefore, the people who achieve some form of success have a moral obligation to look out for those people and to provide charity or to try to provide some sort of system so that they can have a better life.
But life isn't fair.
You cannot have an excellent institution while simultaneously admitting people who do not have the same test scores or meet the standards to be there whatsoever.
And I'll say it again: an Asian in the 100th percentile was being graded at the same level as a black student in the 40th percentile.
No, that is not fair.
That is active discrimination, was less likely to get in based on nothing of their own choosing.
And that is the other thing that the left hates about this.
You know, the more I live and the more I talk to the left, the more I realize how many of them do not believe in free will.
This is a big belief.
They believe in ultimate cause and effect, meaning everything is just a process that is unfolding.
You really don't have consciousness.
It's a trick that's being played on you.
All of your actions, all of your reactions, it's all just like a massive clock.
Now, there is a lot of nuance to that on the left, but that is generally the way they look at crime.
They look at crime as, well, look, it's not that he broke into the bank or that he raped the girl.
What was done to him 20 years ago that sowed the seeds to bring him on the path to do that?
What was the cause set in motion?
Why is it that it's an American value to believe that we do not want somebody's skin color to factor into whether or not they'll get into college, whether or not they'll get a job, whether or not the answer is that you and I believe that every human being has the agency, has the ability to choose morally,
that we can decide to work really hard in high school to get better grades, to go to a better school.
And that if you're Asian and you do that, which they tend to work very, very hard in school and do very well in school, why should they be punished for that?
If there's a black kid that decides not to do homework and he's in the 40th percentile, why should he be given a preference?
Why should he be given a group quota preference as a preferential group?
And then, not to mention the incentives that are created by affirmative action.
And the incentives are then you have this massive DEI machinery that is very, very difficult to disentangle.
Clarence Thomas blasted Justice Katanji Brown Jackson's argument in his concurrence.
He said, quote, KBJ locks blacks into a seemingly perpetual inferior caste.
Such a view is irrational.
It is an insult to individual achievement and cancerous to young minds seeking to push through barriers rather than consign themselves to permanent victimhood.
Katanji Brown Jackson's a repulsive person.
We've said it a while.
She's also very stupid.
She can't tell you what a woman is.
Katanji Brown Jackson writes this dissent where she believes blacks are given a death sentence.
That you might as well not even try.
Everything's so rigged against you.
There's so much racism.
There's so much overwhelming.
Why even try?
It is disempowering for blacks to hear that message.
And I always ask, you know, black activists when I go to these campuses, they say, oh, racism is what's preventing.
I say, okay, first of all, you go to Brown, Stanford.
What racism other than anti-white affirmative action, anti-Asian affirmative action is actually getting in your way.
And that's a good question to ask a black person.
Give me five examples.
Give me one example of racism in your life.
Not that the police pulled me over.
No, no, no.
What's an example of racism in your life?
Because guess what?
Police pull over white people, too.
I know it's like this crazy thing.
You don't want to be killed by the police?
Don't commit crimes.
Katanji Brown Jackson writes, oh, is this written by Katanji Brown Jackson that you just sent?
I want to make sure I get this right.
Okay.
She said, with let them eat cake obliviousness, today the majority pulled the rip cord and announces, quote, colorblindness for all by legal fiat.
But deeming race irrelevant in law does not make it so in life.
Well, this is so rich.
She's an affirmative action hire.
She's only on the Supreme Court because of affirmative action.
Katanji Brown Jackson was not chosen for her brilliance.
Let's pick a brilliant person.
No, they picked her because she's a black woman.
So she's super bitter.
And having so detached itself from this country's actual past and present experiences, the court has now been lured into interfering with the crucial work that UNC, the crucial work, Katanji Brown Jackson is saying, why?
Do you know how many other young blacks that won't be able to be promoted like me for jobs they're not qualified for like me?
No one benefits from ignorance.
What ignorance exactly, Katanji Brown Jackson?
Although formal race-linked legal barriers are gone, race still matters to the lived experiences of all Americans in innumerable ways.
And today's ruling makes things worse, not better.
The best that can be said of the majority's perspective is that it proceeds ostrich-like from the hopes that preventing consideration of race will end racism.
Biden explicitly said he would only pick a black woman for the U.S. Supreme Court.
Biden himself was an administer of affirmative action.
Katanji Brown Jackson is a recipient of affirmative action, and she's trying to continue this.
Disgusting and repulsive practice, and it's a great example.
This is largely incoherent legalese that she has published that writes more like a race activist from Brooklyn than a Supreme Court justice.
How do you end racism?
Well, first you have to define it, Katanji Brown Jackson.
Explain it.
I asked the question, what is racism?
What is it?
Is it institutional?
Is it systemic?
Is it individual?
First, you must define that which you must end.
But I can define it.
Affirmative action is racism.
And today, we took a step forward in ending that.
The hyper emphasis on race is so destructive to the nation.
This is a great decision, but just reading this Katangi Brown Jackson opinion is unbelievable.
Soda Mayor one is equally as where she starts says the moral arc of history or something bends towards justice.
The more you read the left, the more you see that they have the same seven to eight one-liners.
Democracy dies in darkness.
The arc of history bends towards justice.
It's the same.
Obama used to say this all the time.
The arc of history bends towards justice.
So Sodomayor writes this in this just strange, seething paragraph.
Let me read this to you.
This is a Supreme Court opinion.
As has been the case before in American, in the history of American democracy, pause, we are not a democracy or a republic, but she wouldn't know that.
She's a dummy.
The arc of the moral universe will bend towards racial justice despite the court's efforts today to impede its progress.
Martin Luther King, quote, our God is marching on speech.
What are you a deranged college professor at Portland State University, or are you a sober and prudent judge?
And that's a really important thing.
Obviously, not a sober or prudent judge.
They look at their job as activists, not as jurists of the Constitution.
Sodomayor hates the U.S. Constitution.
So does Katangi Brown Jackson.
And by the way, these people are such hypocrites.
Does Katangi Brown Jackson, the next time she boards an airplane, this would be a great test, the next time Katangi Brown Jackson boards an airplane?
She boards an airplane, she sits down.
Excuse me, Miss Jackson.
I know that you're flying to Miami today for a speech.
Just so you know, the two pilots, they were in the 40th percentile on the safety flight simulator, but they're black.
Have a great flight, Ms. Jackson.
Or Sotomayor goes in for heart surgery.
Ms. Sotomayor, I know that today you're going under for heart surgery and very serious.
We have a new surgeon for you.
And in this hospital, we put diversity first.
I am proud to tell you that the surgeon that you previously had, Dr. Schwatz, we know that he really doesn't align with your values.
Yeah, you know, he won a bunch of awards and was the best, but he's white.
So Dr. Schwartz is not going to be operating you on you today.
Instead, we have Ramon over here.
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It's first time ever, but he was in the 40th percentile.
How does that make you feel, Dr. Miss Sotomayor?
Oh, and by the way, the anesthesiologist is a C student, but he's black.
She'll start screaming, bring in the Asian.
Yeah.
Everyone's for affirmative action until you're in a foxhole.
It's like that old expression.
There are no atheists in foxholes.
As Blake just said, C student, man, you guys have no idea how extreme actual affirmative action is.
No, that's a good point.
The question is: can the anesthesiologist read at that point?
Who knows?
All right, I want to just wrap up with a short thought here.
Andrew's like begging me, Charlie, what happened with Trump?
What happened with Trump?
I had dinner with President Trump, last many hours last night.
Number one, he was actually in the best spirits I've seen him ever.
It's almost as if the odds against him, the indictments and stuff, I think it, my analysis, it brought him back to a period of life similar to the 80s or 90s where he felt like the whole world was against him.
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He looked great.
He was very clear thinking.
He knows that he's in the driver's seat of the primary.
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There is zero entitlement on Donald Trump's behalf for the primary.
He plans to work his tail off, do every rally, every roundtable, and he wants it.
I can see why the Democrats fear him.
Anyone that would spend five minutes with him, he's going to give it everything he has.
No one will outwork him from now till November 24th.
Is he going to be ultimately successful?
I sure hope so.
But I'll tell you, he wants to win badly.
It's not going to be a Mitt Romney campaign.
He's going to go for the kill.
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