A STEP TOWARD REAL RACIAL JUSTICE – AT 11:51 A.M. ET:  The Obama administration, far from uniting America, divided it even further along racial lines.  Now President Trump is trying to undue the damage.  From the New York Post: 

The Trump administration is set to revoke Tuesday a series of Obama-era guidelines that encourage considering race in the college admissions process as a means of promoting diversity, according to a report.

Two sources told the Wall Street Journal that the move comes as the Justice Department investigates whether Harvard University illegally holds Asian-Americans to a higher standard in the admissions process.

The guidelines — put in place during the Obama administration in 2011 and 2016 – laid out legal recommendations that Trump officials argue “mislead schools to believe that legal forms of affirmative action are simpler to achieve than the law allows,” the paper reported.

Anurima Bargava, who led civil rights enforcement in schools for the Justice Department during  Obama’s presidency, disagreed with that assessment, saying the documents simply offered guidelines to schools looking to continue using affirmative action legally.

She said the Trump administration’s move suggests that it doesn’t favor racial diversity.

COMMENT:    That last line is nonsense.  But real racial diversity will come when minority students are held to the same standard as everyone else, and provided with real educations in basic subjects, not propaganda sessions in racial grievance. 

July 4,  2018