The Court's decision confirms the principle that everybody is entitled to be treated equally by their government. Every single human being has that civil right - even citizens whose ethnicity is disfavored by politicians or governments.

Michigan voters helped reaffirm that principle when they passed the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative ballot proposal in 2006 that amended the Michigan Constitution to prohibit government racial preferences. Last week, the Arizona legislature placed a nearly identical measure on that state's 2010 ballot.

This ruling is a further sign that America is moving toward race neutrality and fairness (though still too slowly). Equal treatment of each person regardless of their ethnicity is EVERYBODY'S civil right.

Equality must be upheld as a fundamental American value, more so than governmental-engineered `diversity'. Diversity is good, but not at the expense of peoples' civil right to equality under the law.

Despite President Obama's nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, the heyday of the `race industry' is past.