While Wisconsin Republicans rush to join the Confederacy, Governor Tony Evers looks to the Future

After the Supremacist Court rulings, Wisconsin Republicans indicated they planned to rollback the meager assistance directed to minorities to attend University in Wisconsin.

"We are reviewing the decision and will introduce legislation to correct the discriminatory laws on the books and pass repeals in the fall," Vos, a Republican of Rochester, tweeted Thursday.

Vos was referring to the Minority Undergraduate Retention Grant program, which provides scholarships ranging from $250 to $2,500 to Black, Native American, Hispanic or Southeast Asian students to attend technical colleges, private nonprofit colleges and tribal colleges.

Vos' plan comes amid a broader Republican push to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion efforts within the University of Wisconsin System. The state budget, which passed both chambers this week, includes a $32 million cut to the UW System in an attempt to eliminate positions related to DEI.

The Republican Party has nothing to offer the American people so Robin Vos' headlong rush backwards should not be surprising.  But, one of the key propaganda components for the last 50 years has been to tell the White Middle Class people, whom Republicans are oppressing, that the oppression actually comes from some unqualified black or woman who got their job.  Vos has explicitly expressed the ridiculous rightwing claim the only discrimination that exists in America is so-called "Reverse-Racism". 

"The overt racism, the overt exclusion, the overt indoctrination is so deep inside the UW System, I am embarrassed to be an alumni," said Vos, who graduated from UW-Whitewater in 1991. "We have got to fix that.”

When Republicans speak of "fixing" America they mean the goal of destroying the United States and replacing it with a Fundamentalist Apartheid Nation with religious edicts and White Supremacy as the new law of the land.  To that end we see the Republicans in Wisconsin and across the country, curtailing voting rights, undoing protections for the less fortunate, gutting opportunities for minorities and the poor, and seeking to shackle women into child birth against their consent.

The Constitution is not color-blind.  After southern conservatives launched their War in defense of Slavery and lost. The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments tried to alleviate some of this and Southern Conservatives were furious.   So, Southern Conservatives began a campaign of Terrorism and infiltration and subversion of the United States Government.  Today, the lies and hatred of the South has permeated every State in the Nation. 

Fortunately, for Wisconsin residents, despite having a large cadre of NeoConfederates undermining the State, Governor Tony Evers has used his powers to defend the Wisconsin working class and ensure those of modest or no financial means will be able to attend higher education.

Evers reduced the GOP income tax cut from $3.5 billion to $175 million, and did away entirely with lower rates for the two highest earning brackets. He also used his partial veto power to increase how much revenue K-12 public schools can raise per student by $325 a year until 2425.

Evers took language that originally applied the $325 increase for the 2023-24 and 2024-25 school years and instead vetoed the “20” and the hyphen to make the end date 2425.

The Wisconsin Republican Legislature had proposed stealing half the Wisconsin budget surplus and funneling it to rich assholes.  Because the Republican Party raison d'être is returning political power to the obscene Rich.  We are faced with a violently Reactionary Supreme Court, financed by obscene Rich assholes, comprised of viciously mad old men who have conspired their whole lives to destroy the Progressive Era and undo any modest gains for the poor, the sick, the tired, the homeless, huddled masses, and re-establish the United States as it was intended by the Founders; a Nation with the Government and Power tightly controlled by the Rich who dispense concepts like Freedom, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness through the largesse or not at all if they so desire.  A Neo-Confederate Nation under the Rule of Billionaire Class.  Republicans have made their choice. 

Antonin Scalia just kicked Clarence Thomas off the Bench and promoted Abigail N. Fisher

The tragic and sad career of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas just took another dramatic strange twist as his fellow Justice Antonin Scalia plainly stated blacks can not do well in higher education. On page 67-68, of the 113 page Official Oral Arguments in the newly revisited, Abigail N. Fisher vs. University of Texas case, Scalia has this to say,

There are those who contend that it does not benefit African-­Americans to to get them into the University of Texas where they do not do well, as opposed to having them go to a less-­advanced school, a less — a slower­-track school where they do well.  

One of the briefs pointed out that most of the black scientists in this country don’t come from schools like the University of Texas. They come from lesser schools where they do not feel that they’re — that they’re being pushed ahead in — in classes that are too — too fast for them.  

I'm just not impressed by the fact that ­­- that the University of Texas may have fewer. Maybe it ought to have fewer. And maybe some ­­you know, when you take more, the number of blacks, really competent blacks admitted to lesser schools, turns out to be less. And ­­ and I ­­ I don't think it -­­ it ­­- it stands to reason that it's a good thing for the University of Texas to admit as many blacks as possible. I just don't think ­...

According to Thomas's recounting before becoming a Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas claims he underwent withering racial bigotry at Yale. He was told he didn't belong there, that he was there simply there because of the color of his skin.  After getting his JD, Justice Thomas found rampant racism from Law Firms who dismissed his accomplishments as all being owed to Affirmative Action.  As Thomas himself recounted,

"I peeled a fifteen-cent sticker off a package of cigars and stuck it on the frame of my law degree to remind myself of the mistake I'd made by going to Yale. I never did change my mind about its value."

In response to this, Thomas did what so many do when faced with bullies, he adopted the language and beliefs of his oppressors and began to advance the agenda of his racist enemies. To congratulate him for his supplication, conservatives set about getting him onto the Supreme Court and rewarded him with a white woman, Ginni, an ultra-conservative woman rife with her own fascist, oppressive, intolerant agenda.

In gratitude, Justice Thomas has gone along as conservatives stole the 2000 election and created a broad category of rights for Corporations, to enforce their owners discriminatory beliefs, to be free of criminal neglect for their actions, and to place them in position to buy the American Democracy.

As to the Abigail Fisher, she's been at this most likely at the behest of some conservative Svengali, since 2012. What's at play here is the plain white power belief that in America if a black person or minority is given a chance, a job, or a college admission it has been taken away from a more deserving white person. Because the reactionary right-wing bigots believe America is a Zero-sum Game. The right-wing calls of reverse-racism have been building for years and now have reached the Supreme Court. The details surrounding Fisher, that by no metric or standard would she have gotten into the University of Texas, are irrelevant. 

It's a chance for right-wing bigots to soothe the anguished cries of undeserving white people. Take Back My Country and Make America Great Again are not even thinly veiled references to a time in American History when undeserving white people were elevated, given jobs, legacy admissions, government support, aid, and assistance simply because of the color of their skin. The only affirmative action White America has ever supported is for unqualified whites.

Conservatives yearn for a time when an ignorant white man was the pinnacle of creation, lauded and revered. This has been the message of Faux News for the last 20 years, and this is the unvarnished message of the 2016 Republican Presidential Campaign. This is the goal of the American Conservative.