{"id":2278,"date":"2024-10-28T20:17:34","date_gmt":"2024-10-29T00:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/in-print-2\/volume-22-issue-2\/military-necessity-and-racial-discrimination\/"},"modified":"2025-05-12T11:11:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T15:11:30","slug":"military-necessity-and-racial-discrimination","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/in-print-2\/volume-22-issue-2\/military-necessity-and-racial-discrimination\/","title":{"rendered":"Military Necessity and Racial Discrimination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Americans celebrate July 4th with beach outings, baseball, hot dogs, and fireworks. Yet it is the last of those items that most signifies the importance of the\u00a0day. The nation might have declared its independence via publication of a document signed by various political leaders at Independence Hall in Philadelphia,\u00a0Pennsylvania, but America truly became independent only by force of arms that\u00a0were carried and used by Americans willing to place their lives at risk for their\u00a0families, for their friends, and for the prospect of what Thomas Jefferson\u2019s memorable words called \u201cLife, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.\u201d<span class=\"s1\">1 <\/span>Only because\u00a0there are Americans still willing to go in harm\u2019s way does our native tongue\u00a0remain English rather than German, Japanese, Russian, or Chinese, and the liberties declared in the Declaration and guaranteed by the Constitution remain available to all.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">One of those liberties, as Martin Luther King so poetically said in 1963, is the\u00a0right of Americans \u201cnot [to] be judged by the color of their skin but by the content\u00a0of their character.\u201d<span class=\"s1\">2 <\/span>Yet for more than a century, the nation failed to make that\u00a0dream a reality. Slavery, and its bastard child Jim Crow, kept black Americans\u00a0from realizing the benefits that the law should provide to all.<span class=\"s1\">3 <\/span>Beginning in 1954,\u00a0however, the nation started to turn the ship around. In Brown v. Board of\u00a0Education, the Supreme Court of the United States held that, based solely on their\u00a0race, black school-age children cannot be denied access to the same free publicelementary education offered to white students.<span class=\"s1\">4 <\/span>The Court then began a march\u00a0through other features of American law that discriminated against blacks, ultimately holding that all state institutions should be open to people of all races\u00a0without restriction.<span class=\"s1\">5 <\/span>The Court recently reaffirmed that rule in Students for Fair\u00a0Admissions v. Harvard College, saying, \u201cThe conclusion reached by the Brown\u00a0Court was thus unmistakably clear: the right to a public education \u2018must be made\u00a0available to all on equal terms.\u2019\u201d<span class=\"s1\">6<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/10\/GT-GLPP240028.pdf\">Continue reading.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Americans celebrate July 4th with beach outings, baseball, hot dogs, and fireworks. Yet it is the last of those items that most signifies the importance of the\u00a0day. 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