I had a family of mixed-race kids as students. Father was a black American doctor and mother was Malaysian. Wonderful kids, all very bright, attractive and a pleasure to teach. I asked the oldest when he was applying to college what race he would tick off on his college applications. For him, it was a no brainer, black of course. The less said about Asian the better as far as he was concerned.
His atitude bothered me a little. He was a bright kid who had had many advantages in his life, but he was still willing and able to play the race card if it would give him a leg up in the college admissions game. I didn’t blame him for playing the game, but he was good enough that he didn’t need to.
Google “accepted into all Ivy League schools.”
Every year there’s a story about a black kid accepted into all of those schools based on race quotas.
The quotas aren’t supposed to be a specific number now, but a general call for “diversity” - less qualified promoted over more qualified to make up supposed past sins. So a poor cracker coal miner’s kid is discriminated against a black doctor’s kid.
Who would even come up with such a system?
Most of the blacks flunk out of these schools. They had to do b.s. majors like “African American studies” to hand them degrees.
I have several close friends who are "mixed" married couples. One spouse is an American-born white person and the other is of European descent but was born in Latin America. Most of their kids are so fair-skinned that they make Scandinavians look swarthy, but you can be damn sure they're checking off that "Hispanic" box when it comes time for college admissions and job applications.
Personally, I think this is the kind of thing that will put an end to affirmative action faster than any legislation or court ruling.
I used to think it was dishonest and maybe slightly immoral to do something like that. It still bothers me greatly, but now I am more inclined to think it is foolish not to.
A sad state of affairs. Drain the swamp. Prosecute the referees who aid and abet the cheaters.