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While we definitely respect VP Pence, we respectfully believe that we are better as a nation if we learn to be “color-blessed” as opposed to be “color-blind.” \u00a0After all, God, in Revelation 7:9, tells the story of how all of us from every “tribe and nation” will be singing His praises together.\u00a0 Besides, we think color TV is much more fun to watch than black and white TV (for those of us old enough to even remember such a thing!)<\/p>\n

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\"PenceFormer Vice President Mike Pence said Sunday that he does not believe racial inequality exists in the United States’ school system when asked to weigh in on the Supreme Court’s recent ruling that upended affirmative action in college admissions.<\/p>\n

When discussing the recent Supreme Court decision on affirmative action, CBS’s Margaret Brennan asked Pence on “Face the Nation” whether he believes racial inequality exists in the system. The GOP presidential candidate answered that while he believes racial inequality existed at one point, it no longer does.<\/p>\n

“I really don’t believe there is. I believe there was,” he responded. “I mean, it’s \u2014 there may have been a time when affirmative action was necessary simply to open the doors of all of our schools and universities, but I think that time has passed.”<\/p>\n

The court invalidated<\/a> Harvard\u2019s and\u00a0University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill\u2019s (UNC)\u00a0admissions practices by ruling last week that they did not comply with the 14th Amendment\u2019s guarantee of equal protection. Pence argued that this ruling proves that race-based admissions are no longer needed because higher education universities have opened their doors to minority students, adding that it is a “tribute to our nation.”<\/p>\n

“I really do believe that we can move forward as a country and embrace the notion that we’re all going to be judged not on the color of our skin, but on the content of our character, and in this case, on our GPA,” he said.<\/p>\n

“I really believe that the accomplishments of America\u2019s students, particularly our minority students, the great achievements that \u2014 that African Americans have \u2014 have reached in this country on that educational foundation, I think tells us that \u2014 that we’ve opened those doors and minority students on our campuses have excelled and I’m confident those doors will remain open,” Pence added. “And we’ll continue to move forward as a colorblind society, which is really, the aspiration I believe of every American.”<\/p>\n

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While we definitely respect VP Pence, we respectfully believe that we are better as a nation if we learn to be “color-blessed” as opposed to be “color-blind.” \u00a0After all, God, in Revelation 7:9, tells the story of how all of us from every “tribe and nation” will be singing His praises together.\u00a0 Besides, we think […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2052,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8kHU7-x4","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thelight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Pence-says-he-does-not-believe-racial-inequality-exists-in-US-school-system.jpg?fit=1400%2C787","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2050"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2053,"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2050\/revisions\/2053"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}