DEInsanity: University Has 19 Race-Based Scholarships

Indiana University is in hot water after begin caught offering 19 race-based scholarships in violation of federal law.

Despite the US Supreme Court ruling against institutionalized racial bias in higher education, many universities have made little to no effort to reform, instead finding sneakier ways of being racist…or hoping the Feds don’t notice. The educational rot will not disappear for one Supreme Court decision or for federal law under a thoroughly woke administration (Biden-Harris) that doesn’t want it enforced.

Equal Protection Project (EPP) has now filed about 30 complaints against U.S. universities that include the University of Minnesota, the University of Wisconsin, Indiana University, and Kansas State University, according to Campus Reform. EPP aims to trigger investigations by the Department of Education’s (DOE) Office for Civil Rights. Unfortunately, they’ll probably have to wait for a new administration, considering how dedicated Biden and Harris are to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI).

From Campus Reform:

EPP’s complaint uses Indiana University’s own website and publicly available eligibility requirements for the scholarships to present the case that they violate federal law.

“Preference is given to African American students studying investment management or investment banking,” states the description of one scholarship. “Preference will be given to African American students who are also first-generation college students,” reads another.

“Because the discriminatory scholarship eligibility criteria outlined above are presumptively invalid, and because IU cannot show any compelling government justification for those restrictions, IU’s limitation of scholarships based on race and national origin violates federal civil rights statutes and constitutional equal protection guarantees,” the complaint contends.

The complaint urges the Office for Civil Rights to investigate the scholarships and “impose whatever remedial relief is necessary” to hold the university “accountable for that unlawful conduct.”

EPP suggests “if necessary, imposing fines, initiating administrative proceedings to suspend or terminate federal financial assistance and referring the case to the Department of Justice for judicial proceedings to enforce the rights of the United States under federal law.” EPP president William Jacobson stated of Indiana University’s racist scholarships, “This is probably the most pervasive discriminatory scholarship activity we’ve seen anywhere so far. Nineteen, to us, reflects a systemic disregard with not only the U.S. Constitution and the Civil Rights Act, but also Indiana University’s own rules.”

Until this poisonous and Marxist critical theory is purged from our institutions, our higher education will continue to deteriorate into valueless brainwashing.