Governance & Trust
DEI & Merit
Merit is the fairest system ever devised. Hiring and admissions by anything else erodes trust and insults the people it claims to help.
The Stakes
Every person wants to be judged by what they can do, not by a box they checked at birth. When a school or an employer weighs race, the people it claims to lift are the ones who get asked, quietly, whether they really earned their seat. That doubt is a cost the policy never counts. Merit isn't a slogan for the comfortable — it's the promise that a kid from anywhere, with no connections, can win on the work alone. That promise is what we're protecting.
The Receipts
Every figure cites a primary federal source. Tap a chip to check it yourself.
6-3 rulingIn Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard / UNC (2023), the Supreme Court held that race-based admissions violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act — ending roughly 45 years of precedent.
SCOTUS ↗73%About 73% of Americans say race or ethnicity should NOT be a factor in college admissions — a broad, cross-partisan majority, not a fringe view.
Pew ↗Across every groupMajorities of every racial group agree race should not be a factor — 78% of white, 65% of Hispanic, 62% of Black, and 58% of Asian adults — so this is not white grievance; it's a shared American instinct.
Pew ↗85% vs 63%Even with a partisan gap, both sides agree: 85% of Republicans and 63% of Democrats say race should not be an admissions factor.
Pew ↗Title VIThe same federal civil-rights law that bars discrimination against minorities also bars discrimination by race in favor of some applicants over others — the rule has to run both ways or it isn't a rule.
Civil Rights Act of 1964 ↗Their Best Argument — and Why It Fails
The steelman
Centuries of slavery, segregation, and redlining left real, measurable gaps that don't vanish on their own, and a 'colorblind' system simply locks in advantages that were built unfairly. Diversity in classrooms and workplaces is itself a benefit, and modest preferences are a small, time-limited correction to a much larger historical wrong.
The rebuttal
The history is real and the harm was real — no honest conservative denies redlining or Jim Crow. But the remedy for past discrimination by race cannot be present discrimination by race; the Constitution and Title VI guarantee equal protection to every individual, not balance between groups. The Court found Harvard used race in a 'negative manner' against Asian American applicants — the policy didn't just help, it penalized. And nearly three-quarters of Americans of every background reject racial preferences, because being told you needed a thumb on the scale is its own kind of insult. The fair fix is to attack the actual cause — failing K-12 schools and broken family economics — not to sort adults by ancestry at the finish line.
The Conservative Fix
- 1
Enforce Title VI and SFFA: investigate institutions still using race as a covert admissions or hiring factor under another name.
Federal - 2
Direct state university boards to adopt socioeconomic and geographic factors — which lift the genuinely disadvantaged of every race — instead of racial classification.
State - 3
Require transparent, published admissions criteria at public universities so applicants can see the standard they're judged against.
State - 4
Refocus local school boards on early literacy and math, where opportunity gaps actually open — fixing the pipeline beats rationing the seats.
Local - 5
Audit corporate and agency 'DEI' programs for unlawful race- or sex-based quotas in hiring and promotion.
Federal / State
Answer the Muster
Who decides this: Federal civil-rights enforcers, your state university board, and your local school board
I'm a constituent in [district]. After Students for Fair Admissions, the law is clear: race can't be a factor in admissions or hiring. I'm asking [Official] to support equal treatment under the law — enforce Title VI and replace racial preferences with need-based, opportunity-focused programs. Where does [he/she] stand?