What should be noted is a column written in the December 8th New York Times which included the following:

Although one African-American and four Latino applicants with lower combined academic and personal achievement scores than Ms. Fisher’s were provisionally admitted, so were 42 white applicants whose scores were identical to or lower than hers. Similarly, 168 black and Latino students with academic and personal achievement profiles that were as good as, or better than, Ms. Fisher’s were also denied, according to the university.

That is only scratching the surface of this entire ordeal.

It has now been revealed that Fisher has been backed by suspected notable white supremacists–businesspersons and organizations with reputations for practicing racism towards non-white people, particularly Melanoid people. Edward Blum is one of these people with an agenda that drops more than a hint of being anti-Black. Blum, who has been in a longtime fight to oppose programs originally intended to specifically benefit Melanoid people such as affirmative action, has been called out by members of the Asian community for his racist agenda(s).

Edward Blum of the American Enterprise Institute

Blum is affiliated with the American Enterprise Institute, a suspected white supremacist think tank in which he serves as Visiting Fellow and director of the Project on Fair Representation. The AEI is an organization that operates off of right-wing conservatism and the Project on Fair Representation is a right-wing legal defense fund which is financed by a libertarian group named Donor’s Trust.

Some of the other notable members serving on this board are Conservatives such as Dinesh D’Souza–whose anti-Black books have been bankrolled by the AEI–and Charles Murray, who has also authored anti-Black books such as The Bell Curve–a book that attempted to scientifically explain how Black people are intellectually inferior to whites.

Charles Murray of the American Enterprise Institute

This case is much bigger than Abigail Fisher, who is only being used to meet a certain agenda which involves attempting to nullify any programs or initiatives that white supremacists assume to be beneficial to Black people. A 2012 Business Insider story reported that Blum handpicked Fisher’s case because it best fit his agenda of opposing Black progress.

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Scalia, who has served as a U.S. Supreme Court Justice since the Reagan Administration, has received high praise for his staunch conservatism. On Wednesday (Dec. 9th), Scalia questioned the affirmative action policies of the University of Texas during a hearing. Here’s what he had to say, according to the excerpt of the hearing’s transcript provided by CNN: 

There are those who contend that it does not benefit African-Americans to get them into the University of Texas where they do not do well, as opposed to having them go to a less-advanced school, a less — a slower-track school where they do well,” Scalia said, according to the transcript. “One of the briefs pointed out that most of the black scientists in this country don’t come from schools like the University of Texas.

Apparently, Scalia wasn’t finished making disparaging remarks toward Black students as he had this to say as well:

They come from lesser schools where they do not feel that they’re being pushed ahead in classes that are too fast for them,” Scalia said. “I’m just not impressed by the fact that the University of Texas may have fewer. Maybe it ought to have fewer. And maybe some — you know, when you take more, the number of blacks, really competent blacks, admitted to lesser schools, turns out to be less.

Of course, the statements made by Scalia were too late to take back, but that wouldn’t stop other members of the dominant society to attempt to participate in damage control anyway. It is deeply disturbing to hear a Supreme Court justice endorse racist ideas from the bench of the nation’s highest court,” says Nevada’s Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid. “The only difference between the ideas endorsed by Donald Trump and Scalia is that Scalia has a robe and a lifetime appointment.

While Reid’s statement holds weight, it must be noted that many whites–much like Harry Reid and whites who have openly taken a stance against the views of Antonin Scalia–feel a sense of discomfort when another member of their racial group makes blatantly racist remarks. This gives off the implication that they actually justify the ideologies of people like Scalia in private, so long as they don’t get off code in public.

Check out the video below for the rundown on this story.

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