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“I don’t care whether or not they’re Jews. I care whether or not they’re Americans.”

I TOTALLY AGREE

This foreign national college student developed from social engineering of race based “affirmative action.”

AFFIRMATIVE ACTION

Students were not selected according to academic merit, but rather for colleges and universities to meet receive ace-based quotas in order to receive federal funds. There were not enough U.S non-white students seeking enrollment. So, colleges and universities went through the loop-hole of selecting international students.

Justice Thurgood Marshall, the first African American “Supreme Court justice, highlights the hypocrisy of opposition to affirmative action where opponents claim that it violates the Constitution’s disregard for race. Specifically, Justice Marshall is referring to race-based admissions, the most well-known form of affirmative action in higher education, which is the consideration of race in the college admissions process that extends opportunities to marginalized groups, particularly people of color, in the United States (US) to mitigate systemic inequalities that hinder access to higher education (Hinz 917-918).”

California v. Bakke, the race-based admissions policy at the University of California Medical School was challenged by a white applicant who claimed that the seats reserved for underrepresented groups infringed on his right to a fair admissions process (Hinz 918).

He tried to argue that constitutional “color-blindness” means that preferences cannot be given to marginalized groups because it would constitute racial discrimination toward white people (Hinz 918).

The Supreme Court’s decision was multi-faceted and ultimately allowed race-based admissions to continue by allowing race to be considered among other admissions criteria, but still mandated Bakke’s admission and stated that racial quotas were either unconstitutional (according to Justice Lewis Powell) or went against the Civil Rights Act (according to the remaining justices who sided with Bakke) (“Regents of the University of California v. Bakke.”). Justice Marshall wrote a dissent against the prohibition of racial quotas and wrote in support of the legal foundation of race-based admissions in general (“Regents of the University of California v. Bakke.”).