Establishment interests have been pushing their woke ideology on the American people for too long.
But people are beginning to realize that they have the option to fight back against the insanity.
And this major lawsuit in Indiana gave racial justice activists another rude wakeup call.
Race-based programs “cannot be reconciled” with the 14th Amendment
In June of 2023, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) ended decades of racial discrimination at colleges.
Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard renewed America’s commitment to equal protection under the 14th Amendment and put up a roadblock for woke policies at major universities.
Chief Justice John Roberts, who wrote the majority opinion, condemned the discriminatory practices of admissions offices across the country.
Roberts recognized the need to promote diversity in our country, but also pointed out that it’s impossible to “measure” the results.
“How is a court to know when they have been reached, and when the perilous remedy of racial preferences may cease?” he asked rhetorically.
The Court ultimately ruled that these race-based “programs cannot be reconciled with the guarantees of the Equal Protection Clause.”
“Eliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it,” Roberts said.
The dominoes now appear to be falling.
Scholarship programs are using “racial and/or ethnic descriptor(s)” to exclude whites
Indiana University was served with a Civil Rights complaint last month by The Equal Protection Project.
The Project is funded by the Legal Insurrection Foundation (LIF), a group that hopes to “promote equality and equal protection of the law as civic virtues.”
LIF argues that Indiana University is running race-based scholarship programs that violate the U.S. Constitution.
The group said these scholarship programs are an indicator of “a pervasive systemic failure to comply with Constitutional and statutory requirements.”
LIF found that the school offers at least 19 scholarship programs at the Kelley School of Business that are only available to students of “minority” groups.
They said that the use of the word “minorities” in scholarships is meant to be “a racial and/or ethnic descriptor that excludes whites.”
The move against Indiana University is just one example of LIF’s current legal campaign.
“They are either not eligible for these scholarships at all or are not ‘referred’”
LIF has successfully changed the scholarship programs at over a dozen universities by filing similar complaints against approximately 30 universities.
In the case of Indiana University, LIF hopes to hold the school “accountable for its unlawful conduct” by urging the Office of Civil Rights to institute fines, suspend funding, or issue a referral to the DOJ.
“The Supreme Court has recognized only two interests compelling enough to justify racial classifications . . . neither applies here,” they said in the filing.
The only two instances that would justify such action is government-based discrimination and safety in prisons.
Otherwise, there is no legal justification.
LIF said rules are being “mechanically applied” to result in systemic racism against non-minorities.
“If applicants do not meet the blunt racial or national-origin requirements, they are either not eligible for these scholarships at all or are not ‘referred,’” they said.
The group said these criteria are “presumptively invalid” because they violate “federal civil rights statutes and Constitutional equal protection guarantees.”
Patriot Political will keep you up-to-date on any developments to this ongoing story.
