DoD’s use of racial preferences is hurting our army, profoundly threatening our readiness.
— Claude M. McQuarrie Iil
HOUSTON, TEXAS, UNITED STATES, June 29, 2023/EINPresswire.com/ — The Supreme Court docket resolution in College students for Honest Admissions v. Harvard School and College of North Carolina (Nos. 20-1199 and 21-707) is a “victory for the Structure, equality of alternative, and meritocracy,” mentioned Claude M. McQuarrie III, President, Veterans for Equity and Benefit.
“The race-based practices at not solely Harvard/UNC but additionally our Nation’s service academies violate each equal safety precept cited by the Court docket in its well-reasoned resolution,” McQuarrie mentioned. “The Court docket has reaffirmed these ideas, successfully ending using racial preferences in school admissions, restoring devoted adherence to the Structure.”
The Court docket famous at footnote 4, “America as amicus curiae contends that race-based admissions packages additional compelling pursuits at our Nation’s army academies. No army academy is a celebration to these circumstances, nonetheless, and not one of the courts beneath addressed the propriety of race-based admissions programs in that context. This opinion additionally doesn’t tackle the problem, in gentle of the possibly distinct pursuits that army academies might current.”
“The Court docket thus didn’t adjudicate DoD’s misguided try to justify its race-based, discriminatory practices in service academy admissions,” McQuarrie mentioned.
DoD’s transient had claimed that its practices are a “nationwide safety crucial” and “important to attaining a mission-ready combating pressure,” he defined.
Importantly, nonetheless, the Court docket’s resolution implicitly rejects DoD’s declare that using racial preferences at faculties having ROTC packages (the biggest supply of commissioned officers) can be a “compelling curiosity” that might excuse enforcement of the Structure, McQuarrie mentioned. “Furthermore, the Court docket didn’t articulate any rationale for why its reasoning doesn’t apply to the service academies. It merely didn’t determine whether or not DoD’s declare of a ‘compelling curiosity’ on the service academies (which, if proved, would possibly excuse noncompliance) had been proved.”
McQuarrie added, “As VFM’s amicus transient defined intimately, the time has come for our service academies to change their admissions practices to eradicate all consideration of race and to deal with all candidates utilizing a single normal primarily based on goal, race-blind, solely merit-based analysis of all absolutely certified candidates.”
“Equally, the Division of Protection should finish its practices of utilizing race-based preferences in all accession, service college choice, project, command choice and promotion board actions,” he mentioned.
“Our warfighters want and deserve solely the best-qualified leaders. Chief high quality determines mission success or failure and life or loss of life on the battlefield,” McQuarrie mentioned.
“Compromise of choice requirements by use of ‘variety targets,’ whereby race (which has no correlation to management skill) dilutes benefit, is an unacceptable failure of our collective ethical obligation to all the time present warfighters with the best-qualified leaders.”
“DoD first made its assertion of a ‘nationwide safety crucial’ in 2003, searching for judicial cowl for its discriminatory practices, which lately have turn into pervasive. Its declare is unproven, unfaithful and opposite to generations of current historical past,” McQuarrie mentioned.
“As VFM’s transient confirmed, DoD’s use of racial preferences is hurting our army, profoundly threatening our readiness. Till DoD abandons its dangerous practices and returns to race-blind, equal alternative, and solely merit-based personnel administration, our nationwide safety will proceed to endure,” he added.
“Relatively than forcing warfighters to ask courts to look at whether or not DoD can show its specious declare, DoD ought to take its cue from this resolution and do what different establishments will now be required to do: comply with the letter and spirit of the Structure,” McQuarrie mentioned.
ABOUT VFM: Veterans for Equity and Benefit (VFM) is a 501(c)(19) veteran’s group with over 600 members, most of whom served in fight, together with 21 recipients of the Medal of Honor and recipients of over 900 different fight valor awards, 45 former POWs, and 121 retired normal officers. It filed an amicus curiae transient in SFFA v. Harvard/UNC. It advocates for equal alternative, race impartial and solely merit-based army officer accession, project and promotion polices for the US army. Claude M. McQuarrie III, a West Level graduate and lawyer, is its President.
Claude M. McQuarrie III
Veterans for Equity and Benefit
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