Posted on 09/20/2004 5:01:27 PM PDT by SmithL
Minority advocates say they will turn out in force at this week's meeting of the University of California Board of Regents in an attempt to kill a proposal they fear will make it harder for black and Latino students to gain admission.
At issue is a faculty recommendation to raise the minimum grade point average from a B- to a B in order to shrink the pool of California high school students eligible to attend one of UC's nine undergraduate campuses.
"The regents must end their sordid practice of shutting their doors to the students of California, especially black and Latino students," said Yvette Felarca, a UC Berkeley graduate student and a national organizer for the pro- affirmative action group, By Any Means Necessary. "If anything, the regents ought to be reversing this kind of trend.
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Democrats, of course. :P
According to 'minority advocates', apparently, Blacks and Latinos do. (They probably just forgot to include women and gays.)
If I went around tomorrow saying, "Blacks and Latinos just can't hack it and need to be patronized, coddled, and infantilized," I'd be voted off the island for bigotry, yet these idiots make a career out of it. Probably a lot of them have grants that actually pay them to do so. What a system.
There is a flip side to this. Next Saturday, watch a bunch of college football games. Are the white players being excluded for purely racial reasons? Is there some racial capability that makes black players naturally better than white players? How do we correct that bias? Is there some racial capability that makes white students naturally better than black students? How do we correct that bias?
But, why are the effects of one bias acceptable but the other, not?
Standards, Borders, Language, Culture. Any questions?
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