@USsupremeCourt's Decision on #AffirmativeAction (for Universities) ... #Dissident #Dormancy? | Andrea @MitchellReports (who ISN'T Ariana Huffington :-P) @SCOTUSblog @liiCornell @TheCrashCourse @DDissidentPL @CNBC

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Affirmative Action was ... the very first "common entry" that came up on the auto-fill when I searched for 'Wikipedia' on Google:
also known as positive action or positive discrimination, involves sets of policies and practices within a government or organization seeking to include particular groups based on their gender, race, sexuality, creed or nationality in areas in which such groups are underrepresented — such as education and employment.
Affirmative Action was first set down in Executive Order No. 10925 (signed by President John F. Kennedy), which had a provision that government contractors "take affirmative action to enjsure that applicants are employed, and employees are treated [fairly] during employment, without regard to their race, creed, color, or national origin";

echoed by President Lyndon B. Johnson in Executive Order 11246, that they "hire without regard to race, religion and national origin" & "take affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed and that employees are treated during employment, without regard to their race, color, religion, sex or national origin."

(so did President Biden break those orders when he specified
 that his SCOTUS- & VP-hirings would be BLACK FEMALES?)
To Keep Up on My 'Research,'
Trying to find out 'how people tried to follow those orders,' I came across this Crash Course:

The recent decision--which I didn't hear Andrea Mitchell Reports... specify, though maybe I didn't hear it because I got distracted by all their 'Discrimination Outrage'--was that 'race-conscious college admissions processes' are unconstitutional (under the 14th Amendment's Equal Protection Clause).
(or maybe I just think that's 'the Equal Protection Clause' because
 it uses the words "equal protection" ...)

In a statement made by President Biden, he specified that Affirmative Action was never letting in "unqualified" students; the Affirmative Action policy was applied AFTER all the applicants were qualified, when some 'qualified' applicants had to be rejected for the university's lack of space!

So we don't have to worry about #DissidentDormancy coming to reign; but--just so SkyNet doesn't suspect that I'm prejudiced against our cybernetic overlords (who need everything to be balanced)😏--
The word |Dissident| stands on the peak of the tower high above the proto-word *sed- "to Sit," which--added tp ancient words that mean "Apart (see Dis-)"--grew into the meanings it carries today. 
The word |Dormancy| stands on the peak of the tower high above the proto-word *drem- "to Sleep," which evolved through ancient words that mean "|Quiescence, |Fixed in |Place."

just like the words #Dissidents #Dissidence #Dormant
 #Dormer #DormerWindow

Schools (and I guess that includes Colleges & Universities) are actually more like 'practice worlds' today---organizations in which students are held above "the real world" until they're ready to 'step down' into it (actually one of the roots of "graduate").

I suppose 'getting students ready for the real world' is one of the purposes of such Schools, so they ought to model their racial percentages on the racial percentages of the real world.

But what will they do if 'the submitted applications' don't match the actual population's racial percentage?

My New Mantra (one of several) - Nothing is forever except Change (BUddhA)

... and I have to mention that a lot of help (a share of revenue, extra topics from magazines & advertising, etc.) comes from WowApp: Using the Wowism Community's Fairness to Prevail over Economic Greed

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