Posted on 11/06/2003 9:02:07 PM PST by Rush Reagan
Hey guys you've probably read the thread about us having an affirmative action bakesale here at IU. I thought since we had it I'd give you an update. Well as you can probably guess it's been a real firestorm. When we had it there were probably 40-70 black people yelling at us for 2 hrs. No violence, and the University did not attempt to shut us down. So far they have actually been very supportive of our freedom of speech. However, after the bakesale in a time period of only 5 hrs the Black Student Union organized a forum where over a 100 people totally castigated the President of the Committee for Freedom, the group that put on the bakesale. We had not anticipated this and were not prepared. We should not have attended, but the President of the organization was forced to go by his boss because he is an RA. We've attracted a lot of news attention. We were the lead story on the local news last night as well as frontpage news in the student and local papers today. The Indianapolis Star also did a story and it has been picked up by the AP. Soon there will start to be letters coming in that call the organizer racist and slandering him. There have already been complaints that such protest should not be allowed at the school. That's good because that's what we wanted and we knew they would do that. We are drafting a response and we are going to hammer them. If any of you would like to help us by writting a letter to the editor of the school newspaper or Indianapolis Star get in touch with me. Thank you.
Walter Williams (black conservative) was filling in for Rush today. When he heard the prices, he said he's going to be buying his cookies at IU. LOL
YOU because you're 30 years younger and already have wisdom he'll never acquire.
While some scholarships may be available only to minority students, scholarships in general are not available exclusively to minorities. Some are based on race, some on need, others are based on merit, or given by the employer of a student's parent, or by community civic groups, or given to students with a specific talent.
Scholarships are money paid to a university/college for an education, not just a piece of paper with no value. A student may pay less, but the degree didn't cost any less.
Since merit isn't the determining factor in college admissions, I see this not as a 'some pay less, some pay more' issue, but as a 'count based on race' issue -- for each academically qualifying non-minority admission, there must be so many non-academically qualifying minority students admitted for a diverse student body.
Interestingly enough, I don't see colleges paying the same attention to diversity when hiring teaching staff. Quite a double standard there.
What I think is really, really sad about affirmative action is the general perception that a minority student can't merit a college admission so affirmative action is necessary. Why aren't we fixing our schools instead of admitting based on race *for diversity*.?
The effect? While not strictly minority student driven, I've seen courses dumbed down an entire class level; students expecting a pass for no other reason than they showed up for class; very creative grading to pass students with a C. All this, and much more, in the time it took high-school freshmen to become college freshmen.
Hopefully you did run the video during the "festivities"??
They believe this because it works: it janks on the cord of envy and has great emotive power in the service of political gain. Why is it racist to depict Jews complicit in the crucifixion of Jesus? Because they were not in power. Handy marxist tactic. Conservative variation: "compassionate conservatism."
The truth bothers them, does it??
I have heard of that, but I am somewhat skeptical of it. Has anyone else ever tried to recreate it or actually checked her data or notes? I find it hard to believe that the kids could be so easily manipulated or the parents wouildn't have objected.
Name the name, please. I'd like to write him a letter.
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