My point exactly, despite his Irish ancestory, he'd be considered hispanic. So would Alberto Fujimoro(sic) former President of Peru. There are lots of people of Japanese and Chinese ancestory in Mexico and other "Latin American countries. Are they considered Hispanic and thus eligible for special consideration at U. Mich law school? If not, why not?
I have no problem with the admissions committees looking at a persons background to evaluate her degree of achievment based on where she started, but that has nothing to do with race or ethnicity per se. A kid, say someone like Jessica Lynch or her relatives, from some hollow in Apalachia could be just as "disadvantaged" as a kid from the Ghetto or the Bario, so why should he/she be discriminated against? In fact taking such socio economic factors into account is exactly what many schools in Texas and elsewhere do, including the University of Michigan. I don't see that race should be a factor. The argument of "compelling state interest" in "diversity" doesn't wash, someday the state might (once again) decide that keeping people of some ethnic group OUT is a "compelling state interest". "Compelling state interest" should not be allowed to overide the the Constitutional manadate of "equal protection". The fouthteenth amendment does not say "except when there is a compelling state interest" to apply the laws unequally, nor does the second amendment say "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed...except when there is a compelling state interest to do so".