Most people cleary see that traditional affirmative action is doomed. Court cases are slowly finding it illegal. Liberals and victim grievence groups have seen this and are now preaching "diversisty". The mindless mantra of "level playing field" has given way to the equally mindless mantra of "our strength is in our diversity".
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I was involved in the early debates over affirmative action and its shape at the University of California.
I was part of a faction that proposed an affirmative action program that would concentrate on identification of talented students through testing and interviews, and extensive remediation efforts at the junior college level to bring otherwise unprepared disadvantaged students up to the standards required for regular admission to the University. Those admitted on this approach would have been expected to take a traditional academic major, not something in ethnic studies or the like.
Our idea was that once the student was at the University, he or she would be treated exactly as any other student without preference, although with perhaps access to supportive services to help with adjustment to university life.
This approach would have ensured that there would be no question as to the qualification of the student to be at Cal or any question that the student had done the same work for a degree. Unfortunately, we lost.
Black people should be spending their time in trying to solve why they reside on the bottom of all of the world's populations both intellectualy and economically.
Affirmative Action is a welfare program for middle- to upper middle-class American blacks. Aside from it also being truly an insult to our intelligence, everything else said about it is pure conjecture. Poor blacks are used as the poster children for it, but it doesn't benefit them in the least.
End it, NOW.
most of the black and hispanic students and some of the white students are behind acedmically.
the top ten students were acknowledged last night. 6 asians, 1 black, 1 white, 2 exchange students from macedonia.
many scholarships were handed out that only blacks can receive.
most of my students believe that they are owed something by whites and that it is just fine they get more consideration just for their skin color.
that is how it is around here. i don't see this affirmative action bs going away, i see it growing here.
Excuse me?? Is this to say that prior to the mid-1960s there were no black business owners, entertainers,teachers, doctors,lawyers,accountants, military NCO and officers, auto machanics, hair dressers, librarians, school principals, botanists, plumbers, chemists, etc. etc. etc....?
Well, I guess it goes to prove you do learn something new everyday. (sarcasm)