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However, for law school applicants the advantage was individually considered. For example, a child of Cliff and Clair Huxtable (the Cosby family on TV), would get no advantage – that child of a doctor and a lawyer, attending good schools in good neighborhoods, would be expected to perform at the same level as any Caucasian or Asian American student.

I read the decision and did not get this out of it at all. Fact is, all the schools have to do is to say that they pattern their system on that of either Michigan Law or Amherst (latter made clear in Kennedy's non-dissent law school dissent), and any case against such a school will lose at the appeals court level and never recieve Supreme Court review.

Affirmative action practioners always favor the Huxtable types because they are less likely to flunk out. Affirmative action to favor ghetto blacks over those from the suburbs was tried for a few years at the start of AA, but was dropped because of the disasterous flunkout rates. Thomas was right in his dissent to emphasize the elitism of the majority law decision.

Affirmative action practioners always favor the Huxtable types because they are less likely to flunk out. Huxtable types are also more likely to be able to pay most, if not all the tuition that elite schools charges, while letting in poor inner-city blacks means paying full freight for each one.

Yap, the snowball starts rolling. This decision simply pointed to the necessary administrative trickery in order to make it legally unconstitutional. Expect to be treated by incompetent doctors and your will to be written in a way that supports "diversity". And I don't agree that the decision is about race. The real goal is to stuff the judicial system with dumb suckers that are bent on favoritism. Competence is out of the window, favoritism and victimology become the official ideologies of the US. Notice how the admission in law school is purely at the mercy of the school bureaucracy. They've got total, unconditional and unchecked control over our tax money. In 25 years competent lawyers and judges will be the minority (not that minority! :) But a competent, clear and moral judicial power is the immune system of society. What we got today is AIDS.