Out of the Wilderness

I heard the line, “Good riddance to bad rubbish,” from a news anchor in London referring to the social media guy who’s causing trouble by body walking into people’s homes and other dumb so-called pranks.The news anchor was interviewing the guy, or TRYING to interview him, but the young fellow was being stubborn, annoying, and apparently disrespectful, too. The news guy told security to escort him out of the building after saying, “Good riddance to bad rubbish.” I thought to myself…

YES!!

I need to use this phrase more often. Here’s a clip of the interaction…

There’s so much bad rubbish out there and we should always be on the lookout for what it is and how to get rid of it. The Supreme Court of the United States has gotten rid of some bad rubbish, as reported in the news this week. In light of the recent Supreme Court ruling on the admission process for students applying to Harvard and the University of North Carolina, I thought the title was rather fitting. I saved a few screen grabs of the ruling after reading parts of it. If you want to read the entire thing plus the dissents, click here.

Admission to college should be based on merit over skin color, which is how the Supreme Court views the process, as well. For anyone whose knickers are in a bunch over the Court’s ruling, as I understand it a person’s experience with a particular race can be a factor in determining their qualifications for the school. It’s just that their race simply can’t be the most important deciding factor anymore. Here it is in the written statement:

There was dissent from the judges who aren’t on the side of conservatism. From the newly appointed judge, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, she basically said that race should remain be a factor for the sake of diversity on campuses.

In (probably) all areas of life, let the best ideas, applicants and people take the spots they’ve earned. If the field of finalists happens to be diverse, even better. But diversity for diversity’s sake alone is dumb and more clearly, violates the 14th Amendment. I’m siding with the Supreme Court decision in this particular instance because equal protection, as guaranteed in the 14th amendment, includes people of all races. One should not be rejected (or accepted) because they are (or aren’t) a certain color.

On a somewhat lighter note… Let’s start a list. What is other bad rubbish we can rid from our lives?

1. Too much time on my cell phone
2. Debbie Downers
3. Political fights
4. Negative thoughts
5. Selfishness
6. Ludicrous conspiracies
7. Candy and unhealthy food
8. Anger (for things we can’t control)
9. Overthinking
10. Regret

Feel free to add to the list by commenting below and say good riddance to bad rubbish!

-Out of the Wilderness