Meyers Compares Justice Scalia to KKK After Affirmative Action Comments

‘Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said that black students thrive when they are in a less advanced school, a slower track school, where they do well’

Seth Meyers Compares Justice Scalia to KKK Members Following Affirmative Action Comments (NewsBusters)

Moments before bringing on Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton for two casual segments of softball questions, Late Night host Seth Meyers took a shot at Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia in his monologue by comparing him to members of the KKK following Scalia’s comments on Wednesday about affirmative action.

With the Court hearing a case on affirmative action, Meyers butchered Scalia’s argument concerning African-American students being accepted to schools they otherwise wouldn’t have been accepted to if it were not for their race: “Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said that black students thrive when they are in a less advanced school, a slower track school, where they do well.”

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