Suggested Answers to the Second Short Quiz

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Question 1

Did the U.S. Supreme Court decide 6/29/2023 in Students for Fair Admission vs. Harvard that race-based affirmative action programs in college admissions processes violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution’s Fourteenth Amendment?

Answer 1

Yes.

Question 2

In anticipation of that decision, did Yours Truly propose on 6/3/2023 as a “Possible Topic for Future Meetings” (Sec. 3 of our website) “Lee Bollinger’s ‘The Essential Constitutionality of Affirmative Action’ (Oxford U Press 2/1/2023) and The Impending Supreme Court Harvard decision”?

Answer 2

Yes.

Question 3

Did Lee Bollinger serve as the President of Columbia University 2002-2023 – WHILE SIMULTANEOUSLY SERVING AS A COLUMBIA U. LAW SCHOOL PROFESSOR (where he still serves as a constitutional scholar)?

Answer 3

Yes.

Question 4

Did Lee Bollinger previously serve as the President of the U. of Michigan 1996-2002 – WHILE SIMULTANEOUSLY SERVING AS A U/MICH LAW SCHOOL PROFESSOR, where he had personal involvement in two previous Supreme Court decisions involving affirmative action –

• Gratz vs. Bollinger (539 U.S. 244 (6/23/2003)) which involved the U/Mich undergraduate affirmative action policy, and

• Grutter vs. Bollinger (539 U.S. 306 (6/23/2003) which involved the U/Mich Law School affirmative action policy.

Answer 4

Yes.

Question 5

Does the Lee Bollinger “Possible Topic for Future Meetings” still languish in Sec. 3 of our website as a topic that has NOT been selected -- presumably because our meeting participants feel they already understand sufficiently the arguments for affirmative action (Yours Truly does not vote on our topics except to break ties)?

Answer 5

Yes.

Question 6

Accordingly, did Yours Truly propose on 10/10/2023 Yale Law School Prof. and Former Long-Time Dean Anthony Kronman’s “The Assault on American Excellence” (Yale U Press 8/20/2019) as a vehicle for understanding the arguments AGAINST affirmative action?

Answer 6

Yes.

Question 7

Does Prof. Kronman address many other “Assaults on American Excellence” such as (pp. 1-4) railing against the 2015-2016 re-naming of a Yale undergraduate dormitory (Yale dorms are quaintly called “colleges”) because (p. 2) Calhoun College’s “namesake had, among other things, defended slavery on the grounds that it was good for slaves and masters alike”?

Answer 7

Yes.

Question 8

So why does re-naming something comprise an “Assault on American Excellence”???

Answer 8

IMHO, God only knows!!! And I am NOT implying that Prof. Kronman is God!!!

Question 9

And as “a child of Hollywood” (please see Q&A-7 of the First Short Quiz), do you think Prof. Kronman would want “a safe space” if Yale U decided to re-name itself “The ‘War on Children of Hollywood’ University”???

[NB: Q-9 is NOT facetious BUT RATHER a typical Law School exam type of question designed to get students to think!!! And once students realize “anything goes” vis-à-vis “children of Hollywood” as a result of the re-naming of Yale, couldn’t Prof. Kronman anticipate doxing followed by picketing at his place of residence, threats of bodily harm, etc., etc.???]

Answer 9

What do you think??? Let’s discuss!!!

Question 10

Does Prof. Kronman say about affirmative action (p. 69) – “Beginning in the 1960s, a new set of programs was invented to attack the problem of caste at a more fundamental level. These included housing, redistricting, and affirmative action. Their premise is that formal legal equality is not enough to uproot the system of caste. Affirmative action in particular had a large effect on our colleges and universities. Its defenders saw it as an important weapon in the fight to implement the anti-subordination principle in the world of higher education.”

Answer 10

Yes.

Question 11

Does Prof. Kronman provide (pp. 124-130) an erudite analysis of the Supreme Court’s 1978 decision in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke – the original case involving affirmative action in college admissions?

Answer 11

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Question 12

Is the raison d’être for affirmative action in college/university admissions the atrocious education (or lack thereof) provided for America’s children in its inner-city ghettos against which we have railed so often (please see, e.g., Q&A-5 of the First Short Quiz)???

Answer 12

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Question 13

Does Prof. Kronman address this “root cause” for affirmative action???

Answer 13

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Question 14

Is it true that America’s race relations have improved through integration of sports, omnipresent sports commentators of color, and seemingly since the race riots of 2020, omnipresent TV ads for “everything under the sun” featuring people of color?

Answer 14

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Question 15

But is merely having black gladiators and black commentators for gladiator events anything to brag about since our only advancement over the Roman Empire’s gladiatorial events is that we have made the combat safer for the gladiators?

Answer 15

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Question 16

And doesn’t featuring blacks in TV ads merely incent our ghetto children who otherwise face a career choice (please see Q&A-5 of the First Short Quiz) of pusher/pimp or girl friend of pusher/pimp graduating to whore -- to aspire to become gladiators so they can afford all of the goodies in the TV ads???

Answer 16

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Question 17

When will (if ever) America finally wake up to its moral obligation to provide a decent education for the children of its inner-city ghettos???

Answer 17

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