THE START OF SOMETHING BIG? – AT 10:14 A.M. ET:  Many have wondered when some groups would wake up and realize that affirmative-action policies at universities are hurting them.  The moment may have arrived.  Hard to predict the judicial future, but we know there's now some rumbling going on.  From ABC News: 

Lawsuits filed Monday against Harvard University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill argue that affirmative action policies should be banned at colleges across the nation.

The federal suits allege Harvard and UNC rely on race-based affirmative action policies that impact admissions of high-achieving white and Asian American students. The Harvard lawsuit also contends that the Ivy League university specifically limits the number of Asian Americans it admits each year.

The Project on Fair Representation, an Alexandria, Virginia-based legal defense fund, said Monday's filings will be the first in a series of legal challenges against colleges across the country in an effort to ban race-based admission policies outright.

"Allowing this issue to be litigated in case after case will only perpetuate the hostilities that proper consideration of race is designed to avoid," state the lawsuits, both of which cite "Students for Fair Admissions" as plaintiff, a nonprofit group based in Austin, Texas made up of recently rejected applicants, prospective students and parents. "Racial preferences are a dangerous tool and may only be used as a last resort."

Both universities defended their admission policies Monday, noting that they are fully compliant with federal law.

COMMENT:  Asian Americans, in particular, may well be waking up.  They are among the most discriminated against students in America.  There's no question but that there are informal quotas on Asian Americans in some universities.  Strangely, they are not even considered a minority.

The lawsuit symbolizes something that may well become a reality in American politics – that minorities don't always get along, and sometimes are in competition with each other.  There's an assumption on the left that minorities will march off as one, supporting Democratic tickets.  Not necessarily.

The suit is fascinating.  We'll follow it.

November 23,  2014