Democrats Push for More Black Supreme Court Clerks

I'm a Hispanic at an Ivy-League law school and I can tell you most of the whites there are not smart enough to get through law school either. They just have a white name and pedigree which counts for a lot in the few elite institutions that feed into Supreme Court clerks positions.

I could get angry and offended that you would say Blacks and Hispanics just "are not smart enough," but you are either beyond ignorant yourself or just like provoking reactions, and either way its not worth the time or effort. Instead I will explain to you why Blacks and Hispanics can't get into elite law schools.

The answer is obvious and you don't need a "superior" white brain to understand it. Blacks and Hispanics have been systematically shut out of the best educational institutions since this country was founded, and letting in a token few through affirmative action over the past 3 decades or so isn't going to change very much very quickly. The problem starts long before college, when the majority of Blacks and Hispanics in this country are attending poor-quality schools in poorer neighborhoods plagued by a vicious cycle of drugs, gangs, and uneducated and/or absentee parents.

If you were born into such a situation you'd find it pretty hard to get into Harvard Law School too (though I'm sure you couldn't anyway, even as a white man in AZ, where you can concentrate on studying b/c you have Mexicans doing all the hard work for you, though you thank them by passing insulting and degrading racial profiling laws in lands that were wrongfully taken from Mexico in the mid-19th Century).

The truth is, Blacks and Hispanics can't get into elite law schools because they aren't supposed too, and the people who own, attend, and perpetuate such institutions would like to keep it that way, despite any rhetoric you may hear otherwise. Go to Wikipedia and look at the category "Law Clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States." You'll find a total of 1 Hispanic and just a few more Blacks. If you still don't get why this is, open a history book, study at least the Civil Rights Movement, and drive to the "wrong side of town" in any city in the U.S. and put two and two together. Segregation never really went away, and if we ever even had "separate but equal" it would've been a million times better than what we have now. But you should "get" all this right Mark? You're an inherently smart person right? I mean, you're white aren't you?

James Gadsen of AZ 11:26PM May 27, 2010