Equality did not win…

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Michelle Malkin claims that by ruling as the SCOTUS did in the recent case school cases,

“Equality wins!”

I don’t think so. I think that in the dissent here is key:

It was the promise of true racialequality—not as a matter of fine words on paper, but as a matter of everyday life in the Nation’s cities and schools.It was about the nature of a democracy that must work for all Americans. It sought one law, one Nation, one people,not simply as a matter of legal principle but in terms of how we actually live.

 Equality doesn’t win on paper. Equality wins in reality. If the effect of this ruling is a reversal of the progress that we have accomplished over the year then it’s not equality that won.

We are about to race. We both start from the same start line. Is this equality? Oh wait you have a 100 pound weight on your back. I didn’t tell you to bring that. Hey, it’s the same start line for everyone… that is not equality.

 Obviously using race as a component is always very tricky, but to claim that equality wins when we close our eyes on that component isn’t much better either. That was one of the few things we did better than France.

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