Posted on 10/08/2019 7:49:26 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
In 1935, Alice Jackson was denied admission to the University of Virginia. When she asked why she was denied, university officials were frank. She was denied admission because she was black, they told her, as well as "for other good and sufficient reasons not necessary to be herein enumerated.”
Eventually, the plight of Alice Jackson and James Meredith at Ole Miss and others would lead to a broad national consensus that denying admission to a public college because of the race of the applicant was both illegal, but also immoral.
Everything old is new again. In Virginia, universities are once again denying admission to students because of their race, only the victim classes have changed.
That is the conclusion reached in Preferences in Virginia Higher Education, a discouraging new study by Dr. Althea Nagai of the Center for Equal Opportunity.
Nagai reached this conclusion after reviewing admissions records at five top Virginia public universities: the University of Virginia (UVA), the College of William and Mary, Virginia Tech, James Madison University, and George Mason University.
This is something that the Virginia General Assembly, which has ultimate control over public education, can end. Allowing blatantly discriminatory admissions policies will send the wrong message to students and parents – that Virginia, a state that once denied admission to Alice Jackson, is back in the business of racial discrimination in admissions.
Failure to change may also invite a lawsuit and scrutiny from the Department of Justice for civil rights violations in education.
Nagai’s analysis showed that the two universities that consider themselves the state’s best—UVA and William and Mary—seem to discriminate the most according to race.
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
It’s only ‘racism’ when whites do it.....................
I knew a man who told me his grandfather was denied admission to Harvard because he was Jewish. Then, after the civil rights movement and the implementation of affirmative action, he too applied to Harvard. He was also denied admission...because he is Jewish. That’s real progress.
And whites are often denied employment because of their race too.
1) Not that these folks weren't denied admission to Harvard because they were Jewish, but how did they know? Did the school reply saying, "sorry, no Jews allowed?"
2) Why would they apply to Harvard in the first place?
(second question is sarc)
Fake native Americans hit hardest.
No study was needed to determine this is true.
This is really sad. But it is real and not just in Virginia. It’s alive and well in California for sure.
Discrimination based on race is illegal as it should be. But the liberal college admission boards have been given a get out of jail free card and are using it as just another one of tools in their Marxist toolbox.
RE: Discrimination based on race is illegal as it should be.
I can understand why they’re doing this.
They don’t want an entire campus filled with Asians ( a minority group ). This makes them look like they are DISCRIMINATING against Blacks and Hispanics ( a BIGGER minority group ).
Asians are only 15% of California’s population, but they make up close to 45% of the Best State University’s students.
There’s a joke among UCLA students.
UCLA stands for University of Caucasians Lost Among Asians.
But this time it is “good” racism.
UCLA stands for University of Caucasians Lost Among Asians.
+++++
That was a good one. My Alma Mater.
A couple of points:
1. I don’t think Asians are any smarter than the rest of us but I will give them this: They work harder and generally have a family behind them that makes sure they do.
2. Not wanting to have 45% of Asians in the best schools because it might look discriminatory sounds good but it wouldn’t be. What they are doing not only looks worse, it is worse.
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