I have a problem. I got the wrong life. Back in the day, my parents ordered me from Amazon. That’s how it was done, but I got a crappy life.

You read about this in the history books, though some tell me they are being rewritten to conceal it.

Amazon messed up. Entire groups of children went into one racial pile or another. The predominant race figured they could take advantage of those with dark skin. Many did, and many still do.

The whole thing sucked, and the suckage continues.

Gerrymandering, poor schools, discrimination, distant polling places, and more.

The system impacted even some folks who became famous.

A white guy named Samuel wanted whiteness and all that came with it. A black fellow, Clarence, would have been white but for a clerical error. You get the idea.

Once upon a time, Clarence remembered the days when he expressed gratitude for benefits to people of color that he now decries. 

According to the July 1, 2023, Washington Post:

‘God only knows where I would be today’ if not for the legal principles of equal employment opportunity measures such as affirmative action that are ‘critical to minorities and women in this society.’

‘These laws and their proper application are all that stand between the first 17 years of my life and the second 17 years,’ Thomas, then the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) chairman, said in 1983.

Ah, well, we all change our minds, don’t we? But we are stuck with a significant problem since the Supreme Court gutted the use of affirmative action for college admissions. 

They made it harder to reduce continuing unfairnesses to people of color.

But the solution to this is simple.

The Supreme Court, now the most commanding institution in the U.S., should voluntarily move into the ghetto in different locations around our fair land. Soon after, I’m sure, they will say, “Home sweet home.”

Six months ought to be enough for each one to acquire a sense of what life is like living there. Maybe add another 182 or 183 days in a middle-class neighborhood of different hues and tones.

Perhaps after that, the unique six will stop saying their legal opinions will allow disadvantaged minorities to catch up with whites quickly.

That’s a lot of ground to cover.

The six people who believe such things, with one exception, have little idea of life as a person of color.

Why? Because they’ve never lived it. The rest of the court endured some personal experiences of discrimination of different varieties: Black, Hispanic, and Jewish.

The half-dozen who voted against affirmative action comprise a club of privileged members. 

This esteemed group wishes us to think they understand the lives of those they judge as if they survived roughnecked neighborhoods and poor schools and got stopped by the police for “driving while black.”

The justices doubtless will rush to sign on to their new ghettoized existence. They will be delighted to remove their robes and become one of the guys or girls, taking small apartments to learn an essential lesson. 

The princes of the courts will soon adapt to walking a long way to find decent groceries at fair prices.

Maybe Samuel and Clarence, John and Amy, Neil and Brett will speed to tutor the local kids using a book from the public school library. Perhaps this crowd will even send their grandchildren to the same schools.

Imagine the life of a Supreme Court judge: no boss, a lifetime job with a sizeable income until he wants to retire, and friends who give him gifts or free trips ahead of cases in which they are involved.

Depending on the lawsuit and their generous buddy, the entrance to their domain ought to feature a sign:

Abandon Hope All Ye Who Enter Here

What is left? Some of these individuals act like God without godliness. Regrettably, their attitude is that justice, no matter what they decide, means “just us.”

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The first image is a Judicial Services Clerk’s Black Court Robe With a Pleated White Flap by ThieVale.

The U.S. Supreme Court 2011 Caricature includes Left to right around the circle. Chief Justice John G. Roberts (Chief Justice), Antonin Scalia, Samuel Alito, Elena Kagan, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, Clarence Thomas, and Anthony Kennedy (Center). It is the work of DonkeyHotey.

Both images are sourced from Wikimedia Commons.