Winsome Sears says Ketanji Jackson is a diversity hire

Virginia Lt. Governor Winsome Sears, said Thursday that Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Jackson is a diversity hire when discussing Jackson's dissent to the SCOTUS affirmative action decision. And Sears is correct, because it was Biden who bragged that he would nominate a black woman to sit on the Supreme Court, so that white, brown and any other race need not apply. But it's ironic that Jackson admitted in her hearing that she didn't know what a woman is because she is not a biologist.

The Court ruled against Harvard University and the University of North Carolina's affirmative action policies that favored black students over non-black students, especially Asians. This will, of course, have an enormous effect on the admissions process at other universities across the country. 

Lt. Governor Sears appeared on Fox News where host Martha MacCallum asked her how she would respond to Justice Jackson and the other dissenting justices who claimed the court's decision was a step back for equality.

“Well, what you have is a justice who was chosen because she’s black and because she’s a woman,” Sears said. “That’s what we’re understanding now, what a woman is.”

Sears added that the state of education in the country is in a crisis level.

“While we’re playing these stupid games, I’m saying that education and the lack of it in America is risen to a national crisis. China is not playing these stupid games. China is interested in total world domination, and so is Russia and the rest of them. That’s what we have to be concerned about. Our children are not learning.”

Sears said that about 60% of entering college students require remedial academic courses in their first year at a cost of $1 billion a year, according to the left leaning Center for American Progress.

“I’m pulling for school choice. School choice now. Our children are in need,” Sears said.

“The slaves did not die in the fields so we could be saying in this century that we are victims,” Sears said later in the Fox segment. “They would say to us, ‘Is that what we died for? No. We died for you to have an opportunity. Take it. You have that.’ We have had a black president.”

The case landed in the Supreme Court after Students for Fair Admission sued the two aforementioned schools, saying they unfairly use race to factor into their admissions process. They pointed to the high test scores of Asian Americans and white applicants who were rejected merely because of their race.

The Supreme Court ruled that the race-based admissions programs at Harvard violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act and the University of North Carolina violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment.

The court voted 6 -3 in the University of North Carolina case and 6 -2 in the Harvard case. Jackson, a Harvard graduate and former Harvard board member recused herself from that case.

“Eliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the opinion for the majority.

“Nothing in this opinion should be construed as prohibiting universities from considering an applicant’s discussion of how race affected his or her life, be it through discrimination, inspiration, or otherwise. But, despite the dissent’s assertion to the contrary, universities may not simply establish through application essays or other means the regime we hold unlawful today,” the court’s opinion stated.

Justices Jackson and Sonia Sotomayor both penned dissents because they apparently think they're working for Slate.

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CNN's Acosta gets educated by VA's Attorney General about communism

Dear Diary: Why do I feel stupid sometimes?

The Compromised News Network's Jim Acosta is upset that Virginia elected Republicans who refuse to infuse the state with socialist policies. So like a good socialist-loving fake news "reporter" Acosta had something to say and called Virginia a "soviet-style state," under Gov. Glenn Youngkin.

Leftists can't stand when they lose to the voters, which is why they prefer dead ones and illegal immigrants who they believe will vote for them.

“I seem to remember Glenn Youngkin campaigning in a fleece vest in Virginia,” Acosta said on Tuesday night. “He was running as a different kind of Republican. I was told there was going to be a vest, not a Soviet-style police state across the Potomac from Washington.”

Acosta also accused Youngkin of “pitting citizen against citizen” after playing a clip of the governor promising to remove “inherently divisive teaching practices out of the schools.” 

In other words, Youngkin refused to allow teachers to promulgate Marxist-based critical race theory ideology in the classrooms because parents are against it, and it's racist because it's designed to make white children feel inferior and guilty about their skin color. It also vilifies America and while we aren't perfect, teaching both the good and bad is the way to go.

Acosta was pissed off by the removal of CRT curriculum from the taxpayer-funded schools even though that was one of the promises that got Youngkin elected by the people. In fact, it was a chief promise he made along with his Lieutenant Governor Winsome Sears. But the fake news socialist said that it violates “the traditional conservative tenets of liberty, anti-censorship and freedom.” CRT, however, censors patriotism, for example, and other forms of free speech.

When a leftist makes a claim about something they are against, you can bet that they are the ones doing what they are attacking. The term is 'cancel culture.' Example: treating Black folks like they're not capable of getting ID in order to vote is racist, but they claim that voter ID itself is racist. Some call it the soft bigotry of low expectations, but it's really not soft at all. You can also see it in the classroom where grades are dismissed because grades are racist, math is racist, and words can be racist.

The same is true with their push for equity. The Left believes that all outcomes should be equal, which tends to eliminate individual excellence and promotes mediocrity. Equal opportunity makes sense, as outcomes are based on ability and effort made by the individual. If everyone gets a trophy, then trophies are meaningless. If everyone knows they can get a trophy, the outcomes all improve.

Acosta, who never met a Republican he liked, also slammed Youngkin for putting a process in place for parents to complain if public school teachers violate the law by teaching racially divisive concepts that stem from CRT.  For example, claiming all members of one race [aka the White race] inherently oppress all members of other races.

Acosta, who calls himself a journalist, compared the measure to the Texas Heartbeat law, a pro-life protection that allows citizens to sue abortionists who perform an abortion after a fetal heartbeat can be detected, usually around the sixth week of pregnancy. 

“How concerned should we be, about these laws that seem to be catching on of, citizens ratting each other out?” he asked Jong-Fast, adding they encourage “canceling your neighbor across the street or next door.”

Yeah, those laws seemed to have been catching on now that science progressed enough to show that it isn't fetal tissue abortion kills, it's a baby. And insofar as Acosta mention 'canceling your neighbor,' it's laughable to hear a leftist say that when this is their default position whenever they hear something they don't like.

Virginia state Attorney General Jason Miyares responded to Acosta’s remarks during a Fox News interview with host Sean Hannity on Wednesday night, saying, “I think what Jim Acosta said — listen, my family fled Communist Cuba.”

“You want to talk about what ‘Soviet-style’ looks like? It’s the opposite of freedom,” he said.

“So clearly, Jim Acosta maybe needs to take some history classes of what Soviet-style communism actually looks like. And [Virginia is] the opposite.”

“What we have said is parents matter. Listen, if you’re a parent and you want to mask your child for six, seven, eight hours a day, you absolutely have that right. That’s your individual decision,” Miyares continued. “The great irony of all this, is in Soviet-style communist states like Cuba, the state diminishes parents. They say, ‘Your loyalty is to the state,’ and parents have less control. This is about parental empowerment.”

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But the Left really is aware of this and they used to be more covert about their desire to remove parents from their role; they prefer the government be the main source of influence.

"The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother's care, shall be in state institutions." Karl Marx

Miyares told oh how his uncle had been arrested in the middle of the night by the Cuban dictator, Fidel Castro's secret police and that their home was “nationalized: in the name of fairness and equity.”

Equity--an excuse to do what they will.

Equity, while it sounds fair and looks good, is like a chocolate ice cream cone but the chocolate isn't chocolate and you do not want to eat it.

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