One supposes it’s a good, and quite fitting, thing that it was higher education that served as the medium for the Supreme Court’s ending of affirmative action in America.

You’ve probably read all you needed to on that subject. If you haven’t, I suggest this and that.

In the meantime, we concern ourselves with a couple of items springing from the decisions made in the North Carolina and Harvard cases.

1. Are We Sure Who the Racists Are Right Now?

The decision in those two affirmative action cases is a landmark one — for entertainment purposes, if nothing else. Because what poured forth after it dropped on Thursday morning was one of the starkest examples of mass emotional incontinence and cognitive dissonance ever to hit the Richter scale.

Barack Obama:

Affirmative action was never a complete answer in the drive towards a more just society. But for generations of students who had been systematically excluded from most of America’s key institutions—it gave us the chance to show we more than deserved a seat at the table.

In the… https://t.co/Kr0ODATEq3

— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) June 29, 2023

Joe Biden:

We cannot let today's Supreme Court decision be a permanent setback for the country.

We need to remember that the promise of America is big enough for everyone to succeed.

That’s the work of my Administration, and I will always fight for it. pic.twitter.com/kNDUIhCsIN

— President Biden (@POTUS) June 29, 2023

Kamala Harris:

Today’s Supreme Court decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard and Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina is a step backward for our nation.

Read my full statement. pic.twitter.com/pIBCmVMr6d

— Vice President Kamala Harris (@VP) June 29, 2023

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez:

If SCOTUS was serious about their ludicrous “colorblindness” claims, they would have abolished legacy admissions, aka affirmative action for the privileged.

70% of Harvard’s legacy applicants are white. SCOTUS didn’t touch that – which would have impacted them and their patrons.

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) June 29, 2023

That tweet was amazing in its hilarity, given that (1) some 70 percent of the country is white, and (2) legacy “applicants” don’t necessarily mean legacy “admissions,” and one of the reasons people would want to attend a super-expensive school like Harvard University would be to establish that very legacy allowing for admission preference for one’s children. It’s hardly unjust for a private school to establish such a tradition, particularly when it leads to things like a massive endowment and a lot of prestige.

Anyway, we could go on and on with the caterwauling of the Left at the loss of one of its key sacraments at the hands of a Supreme Court that has been awfully shaky of late on things like congressional maps and election laws.

But what’s discernible from all of these complaints following Thursday’s bombshell decision is racism.

And not quite the racism you might think. Because amid all the screaming, what you’re finding out is that the Democrats are out there admitting they haven’t changed a lick from their Jim Crow past.

The argument here is that eliminating the requirement for affirmative action — while at the same time stipulating that institutions might well decide that “diversity” in things like a student body is a viable criterion for selection — will result in a loss of opportunity for black people.

In college admissions, that is.

Hey, who runs college admissions?

Is it Republicans? Maybe at Hillsdale College, Grove City College, or Liberty University. Everywhere else? Not so much, right?

So, what’s the worry here? Well, let’s ask Ketanji Brown-Jackson, who wrote this in her dissent:

To demand that colleges ignore race in today’s admissions practices—and thus disregard the fact that racial disparities may have mattered for where some applicants find themselves today—is not only an affront to the dignity of those students for whom race matters. It also condemns our society to never escape the past that explains how and why race matters to the very concept of who “merits” admission.

Uh, OK. This from the profound legal mind who couldn’t even come up with an answer for what a woman is. But she sure can speak volumes on race, particularly as the most egregiously selected affirmative action hire in American history. KBJ by any standard of ethics probably should have recused herself from the case, seeing as though she’s only on the court because of the practice at issue, but nobody expected that of her.

Something about the soft bigotry of low expectations, and so forth.

All this caterwauling about how black people are about to be marginalized out of being able to go to college implies two assumptions, and neither speak well of the caterwaulers.

The first assumption is that blacks can’t compete with everybody else in a true merit-based selection process on college admissions. And that, my friends, is one of the most racist things imaginable. Even if you’re going to make the argument — based on statistics — that because black standardized test scores and other academic metrics lag behind those of other racial groups, they’re going to need some help, you’ve still got some problems.

Because universities, for example, are not admitting an entire race into their freshman classes. They’re admitting a collection of people. And individuals who might be black aren’t bound by the statistics. You might be black and have a fantastic ACT score. You might have a really cool admissions essay. You might have terrific extracurriculars and a nice GPA. You might even be a legacy student at that college.

So how do you know that black kids need mandatory affirmative action to survive? Even to make the argument suggests a cloud of inferiority being floated above Black America.

Why they continue to do this is an interesting question to ask. For it to be a demographic group the Democrats depend on so heavily for their own political power, it doesn’t really seem like they have much confidence in the black community.

But the second assumption is the one that is most entertaining. Here’s Biden, who right now probably couldn’t even get into an open-admissions community college:

BIDEN: "Discrimination still exists in America. Discrimination still exists in America. Discrimination still exists in America!"

Could you repeat that one more time? pic.twitter.com/3aODM1cSa7

— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) June 29, 2023

So, what you’re saying is that discrimination still exists in America. Is that right, Joe?

Well, we’re talking about college admissions. So who controls those?

Is he saying the Democrats who run all the admissions offices will reject all the black kids unless they’re forced to use affirmative action?

If not, then what else is he saying?

This is the same ridiculous argument as, for example, Lori Lightfoot decrying the “systemic racism” of Chicago. Well, you run the place — if there’s systemic racism, then obviously you’re the problem.

What underlies this (you can really see it in that cringey statement from Michelle Obama above) — and this should make you queasy — is a tacit statement that black people simply can’t achieve at the same level as everybody else.

I don’t think that’s true. I think that black people have been pawns in somebody else’s game ever since the first got to this country, and the black community simply doesn’t have a roadmap out of that mess, based on some pretty terrible choices going all the way back to the great debate between W.E.B. DuBois and Booker T. Washington. And I think what’s called “systemic racism” is a supreme gaslighting job designed both to excuse failure and to maintain the trap of hopelessness that the Left has built for that community.

I see a whole lot of black people climbing out of that trap, by the way. Perhaps not necessarily in declining to vote for Democrats, but in things like getting good jobs — because of competence — and moving to the suburbs, leaving the intellectual and cultural ghetto behind. And those folks don’t need affirmative action and never have.

This isn’t about black people. It never was. This is about power. The Supreme Court has robbed the Democrats of a weapon they’ve wielded for three generations, and they just can’t stand the thought of not having it.

2. What If We Did Away With Race Altogether?

I love thought experiments, and I couldn’t help kicking this one around after that Supreme Court ruling.

Namely, what would happen if legislatures in red states started passing laws banning the use of race in any governmental context at all? Just get rid of it altogether.

You’re not allowed to put race down on any governmental forms, for example. It can’t be used as a criterion for hiring. No government funds used for studying anything by race. Nothing.

Just an absolutely full-on colorblind society.

Would that solve all the problems? Well, no. But I always come back to that amazing little clip of Morgan Freeman being interviewed on 60 Minutes all those years ago, where he said we’d be better off if we just shut up about race:

I want to see some red-state legislature go this route just for the arguments it generates.

“You HAVE to talk about race, you racist! To ignore race is the HEIGHT of racism!”

Up is down, in is out, black is white, your speech is violence, and our violence is speech. Part of our problem is we put up with these things rather than challenging and exploding them. Now that we’ve got this affirmative action ruling from the Supreme Court, just toss out race as a governmental category altogether.

I don’t expect to get this any time soon, but it sure would be interesting to watch if somebody would take it up.

3. RFK Jr. Doesn’t Sound as Nuts on Vaccines as They Make Him Out to Be

Did you happen to catch the town hall NewsNation held with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. the other night? Chances are you didn’t, but you missed some interesting exchanges if you did.

And the one on vaccines was fascinating:

???? Robert F. Kennedy Jr Debates a Family Physician on Vaccine Safety During the NewsNation Town Hallpic.twitter.com/ffJIzffZUZ

— Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) June 29, 2023

The more you see of RFK Jr., the more you realize two things: He’s the worst thing that ever happened to legacy corporate media, and he has absolutely no place in today’s Democrat Party. (READ MORE: Doomsday for Democrats: How RFK Jr. Could Elect Trump)

Legacy corporate media is kept alive by untold amounts of money spent by giant pharmaceutical companies on advertising. Along comes Bobby Kennedy Jr. to note that it’s a bad idea to blindly trust Big Pharma as a guarantor of your well-being, and oh-by-the-way Big Pharma owns the doctors and the hospitals, too, and thanks to what’s happened with the COVID vaccines, people are actually willing to listen, and…

It’s hilarious, actually. That poor woman interviewing him clearly got orders from the suits at NewsNation, a fledgling media company desperate for the Big Pharma advertising swag. “Kill him! Discredit him! Shut him up!” How is it going to build itself up as the new CNN without drug company ad dollars? And how is it getting those if RFK is on its air credibly indicting its best prospective sponsors? (RELATED: Beware Congress’ Latest Big Pharma Enrichment Scheme)

But she couldn’t, and she didn’t, and the portly doc at the guest mic got himself good and run over trying to pinch hit for her.

And, of course, Big Pharma owns the Democrat Party lock, stock, and barrel. They used to own the GOP, too, and perhaps they still own a sizable piece of it. That part isn’t material here; Kennedy is a Democrat — and the Democrats are no more interested in having him as their standard bearer than they were in handing their party over to the interloping Bernie Sanders.

RFK Jr. isn’t going to be president. He certainly isn’t going to be the Democrats’ nominee. They’ll never let that happen. But he can absolutely determine who’ll win in 2024. All he has to do is run as an independent — and it’s over, because Joe Biden, or whatever other Machine stooge the Democrats replace him with, can’t overcome the 10 percent or so that Junior would get.

The question is whether these Machine operatives in the media and the party so irritate him that he will decide: “What the hell.”

4. Biden Gets Worse and Worse

This isn’t the most egregiously incoherent Joe Biden, yes. I get that. In fact, he’s in top form. This was filmed smack-dab in the middle of the day to ward off one of his sundown episodes, and you can see he’s got those jet-black, giant pupils that are something of a dead giveaway that they’ve hopped him up on whatever amphetamines or other stimulants he’s fueled with when they put him out there for public consumption.

In other words, this is as good as it gets.

Except it’s not very good.

If you’re a freshman state rep, it might be tolerable for you to botch the Constitution versus the Declaration of Independence. Doing it as a president just makes you a doddering laughingstock:

Joe Biden doesn't know what the Constitution says vs. the Declaration of Independence.

"The Constitution says we hold these truths to be self, that all men are created equal, endowed by their creator."-Biden

That's the Declaration, not the Constitution.pic.twitter.com/HN7ZR8xvtu

— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) June 29, 2023

And then there was this. “Don’t go anywhere! Wait, where is he going?”

Biden ends his MSNBC interview and just gets up and walks off set while they're still live pic.twitter.com/0NHfeugavE

— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) June 29, 2023

This can’t go on much longer. You realize that, right?

Oh, and courtesy of the Daily Caller, we have this, which so desperately needed to be backed by some Benny Hill music that it’s a crime it wasn’t:

5. The Dune: Part Two Trailer

This won’t be out until November, but the first Dune movie Denis Villenueve gave us might have been the most beautiful film I’ve ever seen, and let’s face it — you won’t find a more conservative story in modern culture, so you should be a fan of this like I am.

And yeah, it takes a lot to get me going about a movie anymore, as everything is so terrible, but this is an exception. There was already one trailer released for Part Two, but this one’s a bit more impressive.

Here’s hoping it makes a billion dollars.