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This snuck by me yesterday.
In case you have been living under a rock, disparate impact has long been a tool which the feds use to come in institutionalize rules that favor minorities over whites, and has been used to turn school districts into the worst sort of lord of the flies institutions you can imagine. How it worked was that the mere appearance of disparate impact on any minority by policy was de facto assumed to be racist, and draw federal investigations. I can think of two school districts that were utterly destroyed by this, Minneapolis and Orange County, FL. Blacks now run the halls in Minneapolis violently assaulting people at will, and they know they won't face any discipline because of the policies the school district had to institute at the point of Federal agent guns. Treyvon Martin was suspended from school after being caught with stolen jewelry, instead of expelled and referred to police for indictment.
It is my hope that this EO starts us on the long road to overturning Griggs vs Duke Power.
With Minneapolis School District the DoJ came down on them because black students were by far making up the vast majority of discipline cases. It never even crossed the minds of the race activists in the DoJ that the reason black students were so often in disciplinary trouble was because they earned it through their behavior.
Remember, to a progressive the root cause of every problem is systemic, not individual behavior. It is one of the ways they strip agency out of their world view. So, these wildly disparate numbers of black students being disciplined could only be because of something the school district was doing procedurally.