U of Michigan: Screw the Constitution, We Are the Rulers!

One of the few good things that happened on Black Tuesday was the passage of the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative, which makes state racial preferences unconstitutional. Unfortunately, U. Michigan “President” Mary Sue Coleman believes her institution is above the law, and is openly boasting of her intent to ignore it. Here are a few lowlights from the speech she delivered the day after the election, and has subsequently spammed to U Mich student accounts (h/t: Discriminations commenter M.J. Wise):

I am deeply disappointed that the voters of our state have rejected affirmative action as a way to help build a community that is fair and equal for all.

Join the frickin’ club. Me, I’m deeply disappointed that voters of your state re-elected Jennifer Granholm, and that voters of our country have rejected the rule of law by electing a Senate that’s guaranteed to bork any judicial candidate worth nominating. I’m even more deeply disappointed that my former state, California, rejected eminent domain reform and parental notification for abortion, while re-electing a gun-grabbing, abortion-obsessed court-packer who passes herself off as a moderate only because the other Senator is even more off her rocker than she is. I’m deeply disappointed by a lot of things that happen in a democracy. A dictatorship would be much better, as long as I get to be the dictator.


But we will not be deterred in the all-important work of creating a diverse, welcoming campus. We will not be deterred.

Translation: screw the law, we’ll do what we want.