Posted on 02/23/2003 9:03:48 AM PST by Davis
The diversity argument--how are we gonna get enough blacks and Latinos unless we rig the rules?--is transparent baloney. As Bass, our top-drawer cartoonist has trenchantly pointed out, universities ignore questions of diversity when really important activities, like football, are at stake. Is it necessary to dwell on the question of just how many black and Latinos constitutes sufficient diversity? Who the hell are those admissions officers to decide who gets what goodies? What in the world does this have to do with running a university?
The best argument for racial preferences for blacks is the reparations argument advanced by Mick in Sages' Pages. It's the best argument, but I don't think it's any good. Yes, the ancestors of most blacks were brought here as slaves from Africa. And, yes, state sanctioned Jim Crow was humiliating. But it impossible to assign a damage amount to any person now alive nor to specify who should pay it. I fail to see why I or any other allegedly white person owes anything to Jesse Jackson, Oprah Winfrey, Harry Belafonte or any other alleged black. Even less do I see that rigging university admissions is the way to pay...More
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