Lucido further explained that “most colleges and universities across the nation are not highly selective, and many are taking every student who they believe can do the work.”
He also said that race “does not stand alone as a criteria” in an admission office, especially those found in colleges and universities which are supposedly “race-aware or race-conscious.”
“Any mechanistic use of race was prohibited by Supreme Court case law long ago,” he added. “Instead, race, culture and identity are viewed as inseparable from who the applicant is as a student and future community member.”
Did they lie or did they identify?
I really don’t believe this.
If you don’t vote Democrat, you ain’t bLACK. You’re white.
What this article admits is, colleges are racist. Pure & simple.
I was told that a long standing story that I had some American Indian in me from way back, an adopted Indian child.
Then my nephew got a DNA test. No American Indian, but a little bit of black African (he is whiter than Macaulay Culkin). My guess is that back then the lying was better to say you were American Indian instead of black.
I am part Native American. But never helped me get a job. My skill-set got me my jobs.
Gotta love that diversity horse hockey. Makes the white eyes all into minority wannabes. ROTFL. A whole crapload of Fauxcahontas Warrens. Buffalo Wing Woman. LOL.
Didn’t humans originate in Africa? So technically it’s not lying to say you’re African American.
Golly, maybe this is a hint that we should not treat people differently based on their race?
I'm actually a for real Latin so it's time to identify as one.
I even have several hundreds of times more Native American in me than Lizzy Warren.
Geez, I'm a genuine multi cultural person of color.
I’m guessing they all did this because of “White Privlege”.
Never thought of that. I am one sixteenth black.
If that’s the game then play the game.
Perverse incentives defined.
I was born in the United States. I wonder if that counts?
Oh no! They’re making a mockery of a mockery!
Uhhhh...notice the pic at the article source. Are those White students with their hands outstretched in the air at a certain angle?
I wonder why they chose THAT pic for the article.
But I thought we were the most racially oppressive country in the world. The one country where a minority student could catch a break or get a fair shake. Someone needs to get this story to Joy Reid ASAP.
I wonder how the media will handle this story. If they report it straight up they are going to have to at least touch on the why’s of why white students feel it necessary to say they are POC on college forms. That doesn’t fit the meme.