CNN "State of the Union" interviews for 2023 races: on Civil Rights
Perry Johnson:
Leftists drives wedges among us in dealing with race
[On Supreme Court banning racial preference in college applications]: "I applaud today's #SCOTUS ruling on affirmative action. Discrimination based on the color of one's
skin is wrong, period. Leftists in America continue to drive wedges amongst us with inflammatory rhetoric and practices in dealing with race. It is time we stand up against it."
Source: CNN coverage of 2023 Presidential hopefuls
Jun 30, 2023
Will Hurd:
Use diversity to solve the major problems that we're facing
I wish they would focus and focus their attacks on war criminals like Vladimir Putin, not my friends in the LGBTQ community. It is 2023. We should be talking about, how do we embrace our differences? Because here's what I have learned as
I have crisscrossed the country. We're better together. And we should be having our leaders that are encouraging that, that are protecting that, in order -- how we use our diversity to solve the major problems that we're facing.
Source: CNN interviews on 2023 Presidential hopefuls
Jul 2, 2023
Ketanji Brown Jackson:
Deeming race irrelevant in law does not make it so in life
In the Supreme Court's affirmative action decision, Clarence Thomas' opinion said "Individuals are the sum of their unique experiences, challenges and accomplishments. What matters is not the barriers they face, but how they choose to confront them.
And their race is not to blame for everything, good or bad, that happens in their lives." And Ketanji Brown Jackson said: "Deeming race irrelevant in law does not make it so in life. Although formal race-linked legal barriers are gone, race still
matters to the lived experiences of all Americans in innumerable ways. And today's ruling makes things worse, not better." [The Supreme Court ruled 6-2-1 in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, with Ketanji Brown Jackson recusing herself, that
Harvard's admissions program violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. The same ruling applied to SFFA v. University of North Carolina, hence disallowing affirmative action in both private and public college admissions -- OTI]
Source: CNN SOTU on 2023 SCOTUS rulings
Jul 2, 2023
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