Affirmative action challenge dead, but, unfortunately, BAMN still lives

BAMN has been "BOOZLED" yet again. By any means necessary (BAMN) apparently means without any thought or logic at all. If they had challenged the clearly defined implementation date for the constitutional revision prior to the election the challenge back then might have had a hearing, and a court might have found in their favor. The BAMN lawyers don't seem to know when to quit wasting the court's time and our time. Perhaps someone should legally challenge BAMN's right to continue to file frivolous lawsuits, but, of course, that would be an interference with the new right to litigate settled issues endlessly. Michigan had 9 million citizens and 11,000 lawyers in 1972. Today we still have 9 million left (Michigan leads the country in net population flow out-2 people leave Michigan permanently for every 1 who settles here) but we have nearly 40,000 lawyers.

From this morning's Detroit Free Press:

Affirmative action challenge dead
January 20, 2007

BY KRISTEN JORDAN SHAMUS

FREE PRESS EDUCATION WRITER

A federal court battle about whether to let three state universities delay implementation of a voter-approved affirmative action ban in admissions policies appears to be over, with the U.S. Supreme Court declining to hear it Friday.

The Supreme Court's decision ends a debate over whether the University of Michigan, Michigan State University and Wayne State University could delay changing admissions policies for six months. A vote in November banned the use of race or gender in those policies.


U-M officials had said it was going ahead with changes and the other schools said their policies were largely in line with the ban, though each school favored the delay while awaiting legal interpretations.

Several civil rights groups have a federal case challenging the referendum's constitutionality. And another lawsuit is set for a hearing Jan. 31 in Washtenaw County Circuit Court.

Contact KRISTEN JORDAN SHAMUS at 313-222-5997 or kshamus@freepress.com.

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BAMN Still Makes (Meaningless) Noises

On Martin Luther King,Jr. Day, Jan 15, at the University of Michigan Campus, apparently BAMN (By Any Means Necessary) will stage (meaning bus in) a protest by students wrangled out of high school classes in Detroit, their usual font of bodies for such protests. They will demand that there be "no drop" in "underrepresented minority students" in UM admissions because of Proposal 2, passed overwhelmingly in a high voter turn-out election last November. Proposal 2, of course, demands that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 be honored and that no person is judged by skin color, race, or sex in government-funded education.

BAMN claims to be defending the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Have they read it? If not, anyone who wishes to compare it to the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative language can do so on the RaceFreeZone.com blog, but the language of both seems very clear and almost identical. How can BAMN protest equal treatment under the law, demand that persons they deem to be "underrepresented" be pushed into college based on facial color or race, and claim they are defending the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

How can they, with straight faces and indignant voices, stage such a protest on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, when Martin Luther King, Jr. himself demanded that we all be judged "by the content of our character, not the color of our skin"?

Seems laughable at best, manipulative and race-baiting at worst.

We at RaceFreeZone wonder whether BAMN will be breaking any windows, damaging any cars, stealing any candy, or knocking over any tables, as they have done before during their "honorable" protests? Perhaps we should take some tables and cars, windows and candy to the protest so they will have a means by which to vent their high moral concerns for equality in education.

To the news media who will surely show up at the protest to dutifully report the anguish of these bussed-in students, we suggest they ask the following questions:

"Do you know what you've been brought here to accomplish?"

"Have you read the Civil Rights Act of 1964?"

"Have you read the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative?"

"Can you tell us the difference in the language?"

"Do you know that you have as much right to go to college as anybody else?"

"Do you think you should have more rights than somebody of a different color?"

"Do you know that enrollment of black students in California colleges went down briefly but then actually went up and is now higher after the same law was passed in California?"

"Do you know that more black students are actually graduating in California, actually coming out of college with diplomas, instead of flunking out after their faces are counted as 'diversity'?"

We challenge the media to ask the right questions, and see if these protesting students have any answers.

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