Equality before the law is not the goal. Nor equality of any sort, in the end.

On Civil Rights Anniversary, Obama Reflects On Progress

Well, it never was only about voting rights, the right to serve on a jury, the right to own property, and so on.

Mostly, blacks have had such rights, though in varying measures infringedin practice, since the passage of the Civil War Amendments.

And the pretense continues that this was and remains a significant issue.

Clinton: SCOTUS Ruling On Voting Rights A Step Backward

Yes, the real point of current Republican voter-ID efforts is to diminish Democratic turnout.

But the requirements involved are not unreasonable and in any case the purpose is not actually racial, though persons deterred from voting because, not unreasonably, they can’t be bothered to obtain the needed identification, are expected to be disproportionately black.

In the eyes of most of America, the civil rights struggle of the mid-20^th Century was actually about ending Jim Crow, the regime of segregation extending, if not in whole then in part, across most, though by no means all, of the country.

And that was an entirely successful struggle.

And in fact the successes extended beyond that target.

Recall that not only was legally mandated segregation abolished but integration was legally required, in schools, employment, public accommodations, private associations, and the public and private provision of goods and services, generally.

It started with Brown v Board of Education, really; but it did not end there; not nearly.

But that is still not enough for the liberal and Democratic champions of minorities.

In fact, from the very beginning, the use of the power of the law to achieve economic equality of outcomes as a minimum was always part of their agenda.

I say as a minimum since none of those who favor such things would mind any overshoot.

Are feminists complaining, after all, that for many years now graduating classes at medical schools have comprised more than half women, as I believe I have read somewhere or other?

Do Jews complain that they make up far more than their share of lawyers, doctors, and PhDs?

Nobody ever complains about minorities that do better than either the national average or the apparent benchmark for blacks, at least, American whites.

That is to say, whites, still the national majority, do not demand government action to ensure they catch up with East Asians, Jews, or whomever.

The project of the liberals, supported with less than perfect enthusiasm, has been and remains to advance everyone else’s power, prestige, and wealth at the expense of white people, without stint and without limit.

Equality is what they want to achieve, if necessary, by force of law.

But superiority is what they hope for and, if that should happen, they will fight relentlessly to defend it.