Wall Street Journal —A decision endorsing ‘disparate impact’ analysis will turn a law meant to prohibit discrimination into a vehicle for race-conscious housing decisions.
Last week, on the day before the Supreme Court blessed a legal doctrine that equates racial disparities with racial discrimination, the New York Times published an op-ed that illustrated the potential ramifications of the court’s wrongheaded ruling.
The op-ed, “Is Special Education Racist?,” was written by professors of education Paul Morgan and George Farkas. They argued that the overrepresentation of black children receiving special-education services was best explained by factors other than racial bias. Black children…
