Arizona, Arizona State & Nebraska Law Schools Accused of Discrimination Against White Applicants

Center for Equal Opportunity ^

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(Phoenix, AZ) Two new studies released today by the Center for Equal Opportunity document evidence of severe discrimination based on race and ethnicity in law school admissions at the University of Arizona and Arizona State University. At both law schools, African Americans and, to a lesser extent, Latinos are admitted with significantly lower undergraduate grade-point averages and LSAT scores than whites and, again to a lesser extent, Asians....

CEO Releases New Study Documenting Racial and Ethnic Preferences at U of Nebraska Law School

(Lincoln, Nebraska) A new study released today by the Center for Equal Opportunity documents evidence of severe discrimination based on race and ethnicity in law school admissions at the University of Nebraska. African Americans and, to a lesser extent, Latinos are admitted with significantly lower undergraduate grade-point averages and LSAT scores than whites and, again to a lesser extent, Asians.

[VeniVidiVici]

So I guess the consequence is if I want the best doctor or lawyer I need to choose a white or Asian.

Hey, wait a minute. Barry Hussein Obama is a lawyer!

[curling]

If you’re in Nebraska, please vote for 424!!! End racial preferences!!!

[max americana]

Yih! Down with....blackey??

[LeonardFMason]

Get used to it.

[Tublecane]

If the Supreme Court had any sense of shame, they’d admit preferences violate the same clause of the Fourteenth Amendment that protects minorities against discrimination. The same law cannot mean different things for different racial groups in a free society.

[Tzimisce]

We gave loans to people who couldn’t pay them back because they were “minority”.

We’re giving education to people who are less than qualified because they’re “minority”.

We’re letting thousands of unskilled workers across our borders illegally because they’re “minority”.

And if Obama loses, our “minority” friends are threatening violence because they say they don’t have a shot in our nation.

[Repeal 16-17]

This actually screws over minority applicants who are admitted via Affirmative Action. They pay tuition to schools from which most of them will not graduate.

[Secret Agent Man]

Yes. They are set up to fail. Then the libs sit around and wonder how their invincible plans failed - they threw all the money in the world at it, and gave artificial boosts to the side they wanted to benefit.

It doesn’t do anyone, regardless of color, race, gender, any good to put them in situations where they are set up to fail. Same logic with our stupid housing mess. It doesn’t do anyone any good to make loans to people who have no chance in paying them back.

[Billthedrill]

"Affirmative action" is discrimination. Openly, knowingly, and with the specifically stated objective of changing the racial and ethnic makeup of institutions employing it. Individual merit has very little to do with it.

I'd be happy if this were overturned in the courts but it isn't likely to be. It still has legions of supporters in LiberalLand and to object to it is to be labeled a racist. And it's been that way for a very, very long time now.

[Secret Agent Man]

And not only that, it is insulting to those that don’t need affirmative action to get them there. Everyone looks at them like that’s the reason they are there. And it further engrains in their heads that they can’t make it unless they get help because everyone knows they can’t do it on their own. That’s crap. Maybe it takes someone longer to get there on their own, or maybe they realize that isn’t the particular job for their skills. It just sickens me because the libs want a pat on the back from blacks for affirmative action, which is really a veiled insult at the very people they are supposed to be helping.

[17th Miss Regt]

It doesn’t do anyone, regardless of color, race, gender, any good to put them in situations where they are set up to fail.

I must disagree here. When one fails, one may become bitter towards the institution and society and look to government to provide succor and redress. Presto! A Democrat. Guess who benefits?

[Pit1]

If you think it’s bad now, if “The One” becomes the President, you ain’t seen nothing yet. All those agency’s that investigate this type of discrimination are going to disappear by order of Obami. The whole world will enter before any whites.

Now get to the back of the bus and stfu.

[Verginius Rufus]

It's the same logic Roger Taney used in the Dred Scott decision (that the rights in the Constitution weren't meant to apply to black people). The 14th amendment was adopted after the Civil War to protect the rights of the former slaves; when it speaks about "the equal protection of the laws" it didn't mean to include white people.

[kaehurowing]

It works that way in the legal job market as well. You are at a distinct advantage for being hired if you are a minority or a woman.

This is because a lot of the bigger and more lucrative clients, such as financial institutions, have internal political correctness policies that allow them to hire a law firm to do their work only if the firm can demonstrate it has a certain percentage of minority and women lawyers. And since, in particular, women have a much higher career “washout” rate, for example, many take maternity leave when they have their first child and then decide not to return once they experience life without the constant stress of law practice, this leads to an even heavier bias in hiring women because hiring partners know the retention rate will be lower. (I would say the retention issue is not there with minority lawyers, it’s really a woman issue.)

I just said several things that respectable law firms and corporate clients would never admit publicly, but as a law firm partner I see it all the time. I would say over the past 10 years, my firm has probably hired 4 to five times more women applicants than male applicants, although most of the women stay only about 5 years on average.

[A_Former_Democrat]

Ironically, I had lunch with a friend today, a lawyer originally from South America.

He told me his son had been goofing off in school (he’s a senior). Later in the conversation he mentioned Nebraska was hot after him. I asked “Nebraska? Why Nebraska”? He replied “I don’t know, he’s never expressed an interest in going there.”