Keeping 'The Dream' Dead
It was just last week that we were discussing the 40th anniversary of that moment in American history when a man with determination, courage, and hope declared, "I have a dream". In the years following, one of the rallying cries of the civil rights movement was, "Keep The Dream Alive".
Some how, some way, the meaning of that dream changed at some point from one of Christian love and fellowship to a screed of hate and retribution. The tired old rhetoric drones on like a heart monitor recording the autonomic reflex of a comatose patient. But the Supreme Court administered some new drugs to the patient last spring....
Today the University of Michigan, having been told its undergraduate admissions policy was unconstitutional, unveiled its new segregationist regime:
Jonathan Alger, assistant general council for the university, called the policy a "living document" that would be under constant review. "I'm very confident that we have examined all the different types of alternatives and found that race is something we need to consider currently," Alger said.Yes, you read that right. The Michigan admissions staff learned their lesson from the Supreme Court: just say the document (like the Constitution) is "living" and you'll imply a status of progressivism on it, while still judging a man's skin color over his character - and all the while avoiding Constitutional trip-wires like "quotas".
I can still hear the dry scrape of the brain activity monitor as it measures and records nothing. The Dream is still dead.
