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Posted on 4/22/14 at 9:46 am to geauxtigers87
Sotomayor:
If they were less qualified than other applicants, then good. Now the most qualified applicants will be granted admission regardless of race.
After all, the point of higher education is to educate those qualified and interested in such an education.
The point is not to claim victory for reaching certain quotas of minority students.
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."
To me, the "content of [your] character" includes the value you place on educating yourself and working to achieve grades that would put you in a position to be accepted into a institution of higher education.
Also, it's not like getting accepted to a college is some insurmountable obstacle these days. We're not living in the 1700's where it's Ivy League schools or bust.
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As a result of the ruling, she said, minority enrollment will decline at Michigan's public universities, just as it has in California and elsewhere. "The numbers do not lie," she said.
If they were less qualified than other applicants, then good. Now the most qualified applicants will be granted admission regardless of race.
After all, the point of higher education is to educate those qualified and interested in such an education.
The point is not to claim victory for reaching certain quotas of minority students.
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."
To me, the "content of [your] character" includes the value you place on educating yourself and working to achieve grades that would put you in a position to be accepted into a institution of higher education.
Also, it's not like getting accepted to a college is some insurmountable obstacle these days. We're not living in the 1700's where it's Ivy League schools or bust.
This post was edited on 4/22/14 at 9:52 am
Posted on 4/22/14 at 10:05 am to geauxtigers87
It's not all that surprising that Obama's appointees would not vote with the rest of the justices to uphold the ban on the use of racial preferences in admissions.
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NYT:
In California a few years ago
I think truly progressive states will ban the use of racial preferences in admissions from here on out. Affirmative action will be looked on as backwards and racist in the future and counter productive to the ultimate goal of equal rights and equal opportunity.
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NYT:
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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a Michigan voter initiative that banned racial preferences in admissions to the state’s public universities.
In earlier cases, including one from June concerning the University of Texas, the court has said that race-conscious admissions policies can be constitutionally permissible in states that wish to use them. The new decision concerned the question of whether and how voters may prohibit affirmative action programs.
The vote in the case, Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, No. 12-682, was 6-2. Justice Elena Kagan was recused, presumably because she had worked on the case as United States solicitor general.
In California a few years ago
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The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in San Francisco, upheld California’s ban on racial preferences in 1997, saying it “would be paradoxical” to rule otherwise. The court reaffirmed that ruling in 2010.
I think truly progressive states will ban the use of racial preferences in admissions from here on out. Affirmative action will be looked on as backwards and racist in the future and counter productive to the ultimate goal of equal rights and equal opportunity.
This post was edited on 4/22/14 at 10:14 am
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