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U.S. Supreme Court upholds Michigan's ban on affirmative action in college admissions
Mlive.com ^ | April 22, 2014 | Kellie Woodhouse

Posted on 04/22/2014 7:28:04 AM PDT by cripplecreek

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Good news when so little news is good.
1 posted on 04/22/2014 7:28:04 AM PDT by cripplecreek
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We win a big one.

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2 posted on 04/22/2014 7:29:00 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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The really good news is it was 6-2.


3 posted on 04/22/2014 7:30:56 AM PDT by Mouton (The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
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“University of Michigan President Mary Sue Coleman and admissions director Ted Spencer have decried the affirmative action ban, saying outright that the school cannot achieve a fully diverse student body with it in place.”

How kind of them to want to ‘help’ out all those poor stupid folks who can’t get in otherwise. Golly gee seems to me that IF they cannot attract folks to their college/university then maybe they ought to try looking harder.

Michigan public schools are miserable just like California’s. No wonder people don’t ‘qualify’ to get into the state university when the teachers unions have so ill prepared them for life and future education


4 posted on 04/22/2014 7:31:39 AM PDT by Nifster
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"It's impossible," Spencer said in a recent interview, "to achieve diversity on a regular basis if race cannot be used as one of many factors."

There is so MUCH wrong in this statement and the twisted ways of their thinking, I just don't know where to begin....

5 posted on 04/22/2014 7:32:19 AM PDT by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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6 posted on 04/22/2014 7:33:30 AM PDT by JPG (Yes We Can morphs into Make It Hurt.)
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>>>University of Michigan President Mary Sue Coleman and admissions director Ted Spencer have decried the affirmative action ban, saying outright that the school cannot achieve a fully diverse student body with it in place.

“It’s impossible,” Spencer said in a recent interview, “to achieve diversity on a regular basis if race cannot be used as one of many factors.”<<<

a) Why is “diversity” more important than excellence and fairness?
b) Why is it “impossible”? That statement sounds racist to me, as it assumes that students of certain “races” are inherently inferior and unable to compete.


7 posted on 04/22/2014 7:33:59 AM PDT by Above My Pay Grade (The people have the right to tell government what guns it may possess, not the other way around.)
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The U.S. Supreme Court upheld Michigan's controversial ban on affirmative action in public college admissions in a divided opinion

Actually a 6-2 dicision (one recusal) with this court is not that divided.

8 posted on 04/22/2014 7:34:15 AM PDT by Starstruck (If my reply offends, you probably don't understand sarcasm or criticism...or do.)
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“University of Michigan President Mary Sue Coleman and admissions director Ted Spencer have decried the affirmative action ban, saying outright that the school cannot achieve a fully diverse student body with it in place.””

University of Michigan President Mary Sue Coleman and admissions director Ted Spencer should both be fired for putting diversity over education.

It’s the students who will suffer because Jamal cannot read and you have to pay 60 grand a year to subsidize Jamal.


9 posted on 04/22/2014 7:36:17 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz ("Heck of a reset there, Hillary")
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Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote the majority opinion, and the court was divided 6-2, with justice Elena Kagan recusing herself from the case; she was the U.S. solicitor general when the case was before the lower courts.

The tone of the article is, to say the least, off-putting. By 2019 half of the children 18 and under will be minorities as defined by the USG, and by 2043 we will be a majority-minority country. Demographics will take care of the problem.

10 posted on 04/22/2014 7:36:38 AM PDT by kabar
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To: EQAndyBuzz
Dr Rob Steele for UofM Regent
11 posted on 04/22/2014 7:38:24 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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Even small victories like this give us a ray of hope that we can beat back the leftist hordes ruining the country. I haven’t seen Jesse and the Rainbow Coalition lately. I think they’re overdue for a march.


12 posted on 04/22/2014 7:38:26 AM PDT by dowcaet
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“It’s impossible,” Spencer said in a recent interview, “to achieve diversity on a regular basis if race cannot be used as one of many factors.”

Impossible? Stunning statement to make. Maybe they should analyze why blacks don’t want to go to that college and start from there. Instead their answer is to use racism to achieve diversity. Incredible.


13 posted on 04/22/2014 7:38:46 AM PDT by plain talk
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To: EQAndyBuzz

agreed


14 posted on 04/22/2014 7:39:07 AM PDT by Nifster
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To: cripplecreek

That the people of Michigan are saying ‘we think that racism is wrong, that you should be judged by your achievements rather than the color of your skin.’

The University of Michigan is saying ‘we think that the only thing that matters is how many in a certain skin color group graduate each year.’

White students beware; if the University can’t figure out a way to control the front door, they’ll just have to start working on the other side. Is there a ban on affirmative action in grading in the state?


15 posted on 04/22/2014 7:40:14 AM PDT by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: cripplecreek

No one is stopping them except themselves.


16 posted on 04/22/2014 7:40:59 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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The U.S. Supreme Court upheld Michigan's controversial ban on affirmative action
The U.S. Supreme Court upheld Michigan's constitutional ban on affirmative action.
17 posted on 04/22/2014 7:41:37 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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Next up is the outrage.

The night they burned Ann Arbor down

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18 posted on 04/22/2014 7:42:07 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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let this henceforth be known as


19 posted on 04/22/2014 7:43:00 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
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Blacks comprise just 4.6 percent of undergraduates this year, compared to 8.9 percent in 1995 and 7 percent in 2006.

Funny how Jews don't need affirmative action, and they suffered a mass extermination in Europe and extreme prejudice in this nation in the past century. Perhaps Blacks should stop complaining and start reading to their children.

20 posted on 04/22/2014 7:43:54 AM PDT by montag813
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