Posted on 06/29/2023 10:03:15 AM PDT by bitt
In a historic ruling, The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the Harvard and UNC race-based affirmative action programs are unconstitutional.
Schools nationwide will no longer be able to discriminate against students on the basis of race.
How outlandish were Harvard’s affirmative action policies?
An African American student placed within the 40th percentile of their academic index is more likely to gain admission than an Asian student who ranks in the topmost, 100th percentile.
Similarly, Black students who fall within the 50th percentile have greater chances of acceptance than White students who are at the pinnacle of their academic performance.
How insane did Harvard’s affirmative action policies get?
An African American student in the 40th percentile of their academic index is more likely to get it than an Asian student in the 100th percentile.
Black students in the 50th percentile are more likely to get in that… pic.twitter.com/9vvBuQXA24
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) June 29, 2023
Following the ruling, bitter Michelle Obama, issued a statement.
Back in college, I was one of the few Black students on my campus, and I was proud of getting into such a respected school. I knew I’d worked hard for it. But still, I sometimes wondered if people thought I got there because of affirmative action. It was a shadow that students like me couldn’t shake, whether those doubts came from the outside or inside our own minds.
But the fact is this: I belonged. And semester after semester, decade after decade, for more than half a century, countless students like me showed they belonged, too. It wasn’t just the kids of color who benefitted, either. Every student who heard a perspective they might not have encountered, who had an assumption challenged, who had their minds and their hearts opened gained a lot as well. It wasn’t perfect, but there’s no doubt that it helped offer new ladders of opportunity for those who, throughout our history, have too often been denied a chance to show how fast they can climb.
Of course, students on my campus and countless others across the country were – and continue to be – granted special consideration for admissions. Some have parents who graduated from the same school. Others have families who can afford coaches to help them run faster or hit a ball harder. Others go to high schools with lavish resources for tutors and extensive standardized test prep that help them score higher on college entrance exams.
We don’t usually question if those students belong. So often, we just accept that money, power, and privilege are perfectly justifiable forms of affirmative action, while kids growing up like I did are expected to compete when the ground is anything but level.
So today, my heart breaks for any young person out there who’s wondering what their future holds – and what kinds of chances will be open to them. And while I know the strength and grit that lies inside kids who have always had to sweat a little more to climb the same ladders, I hope and I pray that the rest of us are willing to sweat a little, too. Today is a reminder that we’ve got to do the work not just to enact policies that reflect our values of* equity and fairness, but to truly make those values real in all of our schools, workplaces, and neighborhoods.”
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Ain’t Affirmative Action wonderful.
Nepotism is at least more respectable than check-box racism disguised as affirmative action.
Racist. She’s literally saying she only likes being around people of her own color.
Does she hate America ‘again’?
Why is Michelle bitter? Her family is super wealthy. No skin off her teeth.
Full of it !
Hussein is out there yappin’ about how UNFAIR life is too. But, you know, he got his! *SMIRK*
Michelle is still down with the “shtruggle”.
Big Mike is upset, is he?
A $15M mansion and servants out the a$$ and she's still a not so subtle bigot, claiming victim status. Hey Hochelle, what about those in poverty with a parent(s) that actually cares about their child's education and encourages their children to excel in school in spite of democRAT politicians and teacher's unions telling them they can't?
I wonder if any of Michelle’s ancestors were slave owners like Barack’s .
I was on the admission committee at a well-known university in the 1970’s. Our job was to consider applicants who failed to meet university admissions standards, “but have other factors to consider”. In almost all cases, that meant race. We admitted students who should never have been admitted. I told the committee that we were just taking their money for one semester and then they’d be gone. I’d guess that was the correct assessment for 95% of the students we accepted.
You can argue: At least you gave them a chance. Did we, though? I think we deluded them and took their money. Reverse discrimination is no better than just pure discrimination in this case because they were financially less well-off after the experience. Was one semester worth it for them. I doubt it.
Quotas on anything—race, sex, barrels of oil—is almost always a bad idea.
Mike is always bitching about something.
Not the Bee
So it’s 2023, and the SCOTUS has decided that racism is unconstitutional! The next thing you know, they’ll say you can’t lock people up or destroy their livelihood for saying something you don’t like! And mothers who attend school board meetings aren’t really terrorists! Amazing!
she doesn’t think her education was because of her race. It was because she thinks she is superior to others. All others.
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