Bush set to break silence in race case

Washington Times ^ | 1/14/03 | Bill Sammon

[kattracks]

President Bush is planning to side with white students against the University of Michigan in a landmark affirmative-action case before the Supreme Court this week, said a source close to White House deliberations.

Although White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer said Mr. Bush is still "listening to both sides of the case," another source said the president is unlikely to abandon his long-standing opposition to racial preferences at public universities.

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I fully disagree with any admission policy based entirely on grades as some supposed "equalizer" that provides us to "fairly compare" the different students. Anyone who's ever been to school knows that even within one school the politics surrounding grades are nearly as important as the work going into any given test or assignment. Turn in a paper in a literature class and you might well discover more about how the teacher feels about you than how your paper stacks up against someone else's. It's just a fact.

Then there's the issue of comparing grades from one school to the next. Who knows if the name of the school really gives insight into the ability of the student? If only children of the rich and powerful go to the Yales and Harvards, then who knows if the students are actually better? Cannot a student at Kansas State or Ohio State be just as quality, if not more so?

Then there's the issue of the interests of the school. If this school wants a kid who can also throw a football 100 yards in a perfect spiral, then isn't that a gift that that school should be allowed to consider?

Shouldn't they be permitted to consider other giftednesses that particular students bring with them? If Student A is a gifted student AND a gifted musician, why cannot RahRah University choose them over a student with a slightly higher GPA who doesn't bring that added gift of musical ability?

If a school wants to cater to students who will eventually work in rural, inner-city, or international regions of need, shouldn't that calling be something that the school can consider, even if the student has a GPA that is lower but is still admirable? (How do you compare GPA's anyhow, as mentioned above?)

[hchutch]

That is 100% unadulterated crap - there are far more than your totals on Free Republic alone.

Damn, with friends like you, who needs the Left's race-baiters?

[mhking]

at the risk of alienating the 3 or 4 Blacks who might someday vote Republican

Don't want us around, eh? Guess that shows how "much" credibility you've got on the matter.

Don't like that we're 'round? Good. I'm here to stay anyway. Have a nice day.

[rdb3]

Don't like that we're 'round? Good. I'm here to stay anyway.

Ya heard? That's right. Now nod ya heads to this...

We ain't

Go-in' nowhere

We ain't

Goin' nowhere

We can't be stopped now

Cuz we're blacks on the Right...

;-)

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[SandfleaCSC]

This is the most crucial moment for conservatives in the past two decades. With Sharpton poised to shake up the black vote block in the Democratic party next year, we want and need the support of all black conservatives. We have a chance next year to once and for all put a stake in the heart of the Dem vampire, the new black conservative movement could be the mallet.

[AJAY]

I was active in the fight for Prop 209, which almost was lost because of the weakness and total stupidity of the Dole campaign. We ended up very well but still lost the votes of many Democrats who hate racial preferences (votes which we had before the ham-handed entry of the California Republican Party and the Dole campaign.

I will not say anything right now about President Bush's decision on or before Thursday.

Now we all will get a real clear look at the stuff that President Bush is made of.

[Mfkmmof4]

Yes, we do and he continues to stay off the plantation.