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Posted on 01/23/2003 8:08:55 AM PST by WashingtonCollegeofLaw
Listening to a random talk radio station as i took the bus to school, I heard the host discussing Afirmative Action with a guest, presumably a member of an admissions board at a university/law school. The guest discribed how his university administered up to 20 points to persons of under-represented minority status where as standardized test scores were given 12 points. As he talked more and more of the benefits of awarding points to persons of minority status, it suddenly dawned on me that he was right. However, i feel that points in admissions are not enough.
I propose here and now that persons of minority status be given extra credit in their classes merely because they are minorities. Why should the assistance stop once you are accepted? Acceptance into a good school does not by itself guarantee success, one also needs good grades. Therefore, because minorities have been discriminated against in the past, i feel that every minority should be given an automatic 20% extra credit to their final grade in an effort to balance out the grades of their oppressive white counterparts. THis way minorities will be able to feel the pride of getting a good grade and surely that pride will carry over into whatever career they choose.
We have stood by and watched while certain groups have unfairly gotten better grades than others, and this racism must stop. We cannot have people feeling inferior because they got a lesser grade than someone else, obviously due to racial reasons rather than hard work, etc.
Afirmative action has already drastically changed the lives of millions of people, taking them from the streets and turning them into harvard professors. As a society, we must take this proverbial ball and run with it. Equality of opportunity is not enough. Equaltity of conditions is not enough. We must have equality of result.
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Imagine this - your skin doesn't reflect as much light as the majority, so you get an extra 13% on a pass/fail (entry/no entry) test.
I think Chief Charles Moose, Phd, should be your prime example.
A few points here, a few points there and look what we got.....
I think that minorities should be given even more grade point average assistance (GPAA) in the study for professions where they are most under-represented. For example in Medicine and Surgery perhaps they should be given say a 30% GPAA and in Engineering feilds maybe a 35% GPAA.
There is a very unfair disparity among my choices of who gets to remove the tumor from my brain and who does the engineering of these 60-100 story buildings that are being built and it disturbs my sense of compassion and fairness.
But I will be glad to give you 20 bonus points- after all, inability to spell and ignorance of grammar is a handicap, no?
It's satire, dude. The problem is, it's such good satire that it sounds like something that could have come from Jesse Jackson's mouth...
So now we have idiots like Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., saying race discrimination is no different than colleges admitting legacies. One difference is – as Terry Eastland famously said – we didn't fight a civil war to stop colleges from giving a preference to the children of alumni. But Biden says colleges shouldn't stop obsessing with race "unless we're going to eliminate it all, all incentives, like, for example, in the case in Michigan everybody is talking about now. You know you get four points if you're a legacy ..." Sure, that's just like getting 20 points for being black.
Biden thinks if he gets applause from a student audience, he must have made a legal argument. He seems to imagine he is actually learning law from watching Court TV. His next irrelevant point was: "Give me a break. I mean how many people would get into Harvard, Yale and the rest of these places if their father had not gone?" There's an answer to that! This columnist did the math! On the basis of their SAT scores, 82 percent of legacies admitted to Harvard would have been admitted to Harvard even if they were not legacies. Only 45 percent of blacks admitted to Harvard would have been admitted to Harvard if they were not black.
But I've been tricked into arguing a nonissue by Biden's imbecility. If colleges wanted to admit only legacies, or only tuba players, or only people who got astonishingly low SAT scores – to ensure some of their graduates would be U.S. senators one day – the Constitution wouldn't stop them.
What the states, including state colleges, cannot do under the Constitution is discriminate on the basis of race. What even private colleges cannot do under federal law – if they accept federal funds – is discriminate on the basis of race. Neither the Constitution nor federal law says anything about discrimination on the basis of SAT scores, legacies or athletic ability. We've had a civil war, a constitutional amendment, a Supreme Court ruling, a National Guard mobilization and a federal civil rights law to try to get the Democrats to stop with the race discrimination. All we can do now is sit back and wait for the wart healers to speak.
Is Equal Protection the law or is it not?
I think that James Lileks did a piece on the deterioration of spelling and grammar skills due to the Internet and video games- pretty convincing, for me.
I am crushed that you didn't pick up on my misspelling of "thought", though.
And you should have challenged my assertion that all english writers capitalized the "I". Certainly, ee cummings did not- but then, he didn't capitalize ANYTHING (or "anything").
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