It's not up to the courts to invent new minorities that get special protections.
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Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.
We must recognize that all the civil rights laws in the world are not going to solve the problem of minority underachievement. Ultimately, blacks and Hispanics are going to have to see that their solution is largely in their own hands.
In the area of economic justice, we still have a long way to go. We have too many people who are discriminated against just because they happen to be black or they happen to be a woman or some other minority.
The argument on the other side of special rights is completely bogus. It's bogus because you could make exactly the same claim about racial or ethnic or religious minorities.
In 1989, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that minority set-aside programs in municipal contracts were unconstitutional. The court wondered if there were proof that people of color even want to receive municipal contracts.
Majorities and minorities cannot rightfully be taken at all into account in deciding questions of justice.
When you've got a society that is diverse, what happens is for a time, the issue is integrating your minorities into that society.
If you believe that discrimination exists, it will.
Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.
Minorities have a right to appeal to the Constitution as a shield against such oppression.