Equity for Asian Americans in Practice

The Department of Justice showed us why on Wednesday when it dropped its lawsuit against Yale University over its race-based admissions. Under former Attorney General Bill Barr, justice accused Yale’s racial preferences of violating the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Justice acted even before the Senate confirmed a new attorney general or a new head of the Civil Rights Division.

A similar but private lawsuit against Harvard continues, this one brought by Students for Fair Admissions. But it is likely that the government will soon withdraw its supporting brief which notes Harvard for “having systematically disadvantaged the American-Asian candidates”.

So Asian Americans will watch. While many will be relieved to see the government reject terms such as “Chinese flu,” many also appreciate the real and current harm when America’s most competitive colleges and universities reject their children on the basis of their race, regardless of race. their other qualifications.

“I am totally shocked by Biden’s hasty DOJ decision to drop the Yale trial, just eight days after President Biden signed an executive order purporting to fight anti-Asian discrimination,” Coalition Chairman said Asian American for Education, Yukong Zhao.

This is what “fairness” means in practice. Traditionally, racial justice has meant an insistence that all Americans be treated equally regardless of race. But the Democratic left, with the backing of Mr Biden, has embraced the critical race theory of universities. The theory attributes any disparity between races to “systemic racism”, whether or not there is evidence of specific acts of discrimination. The political goal of the Biden administration now is to dictate the racial results progressives want – even if that means discriminating by race to achieve them.

Dropping the Yale trial is a blow to equality before the law. But Students for Fair Admissions, which lost its case against Harvard at the First Circuit Court of Appeals in November, has always conceded that its best chance of winning against racial bias in admissions is in the Supreme Court. In the meantime, the group says it will take its own action against Yale.

Most Americans don’t want the government to pit one race against another. Over the past two years, voters in two of America’s most liberal states – Washington and California – have voted against voting initiatives that would have repealed bans on racial preferences. A 2019 Pew survey found that 73% of Americans believe race shouldn’t be a factor in college admission.

The Biden administration has signaled in promoting “fairness” that it has abandoned fair and equal treatment. This will lead to more social division and resentment, as is the case in all societies that have practiced racial favoritism. The resulting injustice and confusion will continue until the Supreme Court stops evading the issue and rules against racial favoritism once and for all.