The sponsors of the 1964 Civil Rights Act swore up and down that the legislation wouldn’t lead to quotas. Wrong. From Paul Craig Roberts at paulcraigroberts.org:
“From status to contract” was the way Sir Henry Maine described the emergence of equality before the law from the status-based law of the past when class distinctions determined rights.
Today in the US and Great Britain race distinctions determine rights, with “people of color” having higher rights than white citizens who have been reduced to second class legal status based on skin color.
Alfred W. Blumrosen, Compliance Chief of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, made white Americans second-class citizens when in defiance of the statutory language of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the US Constitution he established a system of racial privileges for black Americans in university admissions, employment and promotion. The system of racial privileges Blumrosen established forced universities to admit black students ahead of more qualified whites and forced employers to hire and promote blacks ahead of more qualified whites. Blumrosen’s system of disparate rights in violation of the 14th Amendment was hidden under the term “affirmative action.” (See The New Color Line, 1995.)
Universities, employers, and the judicial system complied with Blumrosen’s illegal and unconstitutional dictate for 58 years. After more than a half century of holding back more qualified whites in order to give racial preference to less qualified blacks, on June 29, 2023, the US Supreme Court banned race-based admission privileges for blacks, but as Heather Mac Donald wrote in The City Journal the Court’s ruling left open ways around the prohibition.
