Posted on 04/24/2014 10:01:48 AM PDT by reaganaut1
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Mr. Blum does not give up easily. He has started a series of websites seeking plaintiffs.
“Were you denied admission to the University of North Carolina?” one asks. “It may be because you’re the wrong race.”
The site features a picture of a student who appears to be Asian-American. There is a form to fill out and a bit of hand holding. Mr. Blum’s group, the Project on Fair Representation, “covers all expenses,” the site says. “In every similar case during the last 12 years or so, no individual was required to appear or testify in any court or talk to the media.”
The sites — there are also ones for the University of Wisconsin at Madison and Harvard — will evoke differing reactions.
Civil rights movements have long recruited plaintiffs, and so the sites may be said to be part of a proud tradition. But some may detect a whiff of the personal injury lawyer about them.
Mr. Blum was also behind Shelby County v. Holder, which was issued the day after the Fisher decision and struck down a core provision of the Voting Rights Act.
He is, he said, “a one-man organization” and “the low-cost, high-volume producer” of challenges to government programs that rely on race. His group’s money comes from perhaps a dozen individuals and foundations, he said, and it goes to pay legal fees. In a Reuters article on Mr. Blum’s work, Joan Biskupic found that his donors included conservative groups like the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation and the Searle Freedom Trust.
Mr. Blum said the Fisher decision “imposed an incredibly heavy burden on colleges and universities.” That is not the only way to read the ruling
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they have started giving points for the applicants “story” - affirmative action by another means
"I was born a poor black child................"
“Were you denied admission to the University of North Carolina?” one asks. “It may be because you’re the wrong race.”
yes I got it
Sauce for the goose.
Navin Huh? I am not a bum, I'm a jerk. I once had wealth, power, and the love of a beautiful woman. Now I only have two things. My friends and... uh... my thermos. Huh? My story? O.k. It was never for easy for me. I was born a poor black child. I remember the days sitting on the porch with my family singing and dancing, down in Mississippi.
Picky, picky....................
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