Like it or not FACTS ARE FACTS - African-American leaders in Congress sharply condemned Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia Thursday for his remarks questioning the intelligence level of black students
WASHINGTON -- African-American leaders in Congress sharply condemned Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia Thursday for his remarks questioning the intelligence level of black students.
"His suggestion that African Americans would fare better at schools that are 'less advanced' or on a 'slow-track' reminds me of the kind of prejudice that led to separate and unequal school systems -- a policy the Supreme Court declared unconstitutional decades ago," civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) said in a statement.
Congressional Black Caucus Chair Rep. G.K. Butterfield (D-N.C.) argued that Scalia's seat on the U.S. Supreme Court should be in jeopardy.
On Wednesday, the court heard oral arguments in the case Fisher vs. University of Texas at Austin, an affirmative action case in which the plaintiff, Abigail Fisher, argues that she was rejected from University of Texas at Austin in part due to the fact that she's white.
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