“I told my daughter that today is a big day. They’ve ended affirmative action.”
Of course, I applaud the majority decision. And it would be nice if they really had “ended affirmative action.”
But California voters abolished raced-based affirmative action in the public colleges 27 years ago, but the practice has continued nonetheless. The college admissions people have used and will continue to use every trick in the book to keep admitting black students with lower qualifications compared to white and Asian students. How do they do it? Let me count the ways.
Abolishing standardized test scores.
Admitting kids based on zip code and census tract data.
Targeting certain high schools based on high black enrollment.
Looking for race-based code words in admission essays
6. Re your comments on affirmative action and race based college admissions. Those under the AA entry part program have now been “re-enslaved” by taking out loans they might never be able to pay off, even with some penalties or loan percentages reduced or even eliminated.
Welcome to the new ghetto built by the Democrats, fools. You can get in but you probably will never get out. There is no such thing as a free lunch. You must have missed that economic’s class, if you ever had one.
And yet you still vote for those Marxists. Time to pay the piper. Oh wait, you sold you soul to them a long time ago so student loans aren’t the only thing they’ve got on you.
Hey irishjuggler, insightful points there.
But I think I’m missing something. Isn’t the outrage over Affirmative Action to do with Federal and State funding of these universities?
If a university, such as Hillsdale College, who doesn’t accept any government funds, were to fashion its own admission policy through racial, economic, or other criteria, what’s to prevent them from doing so?
Am I right that Affirmative Action is an issue because 99% of colleges and universities are public funded? Nothing I’ve read so far about Affirmative Action addresses this issue.
And what about Black colleges? Does this SC decision cause them problems?
What say you, FReepers?
They will fight, but they can be sued. And in a system with a lot of conservative judges.
It will take some years, but there is a reason Sotomayor and Jackson went berserk in their dissents.