Posted on 10/16/2011 5:42:48 PM PDT by reaganaut1
ABIGAIL FISHER, a white student, says she was denied admission to the University of Texas because of her race. She sued in Federal District Court in Austin, causing Judge Sam Sparks to spend time trying to make sense of a 2003 Supreme Court decision allowing racial preferences in higher education. “I’ve read it till I’m blue in the face,” Judge Sparks said in an early hearing in Ms. Fisher’s lawsuit. But the meaning of the central concept in the decision — “this esoteric critical mass of diversity of students,” he called it — kept eluding him.
The 2003 Supreme Court decision he was trying to understand, Grutter v. Bollinger, had elevated the concept of “diversity” from human-resource department jargon to constitutional stature. The pursuit of diversity, a five-justice majority said, allows admissions personnel at public universities to do what the Constitution ordinarily forbids government officials to do — to sort people by race.
Judge Sparks in the end ruled that the Grutter decision meant that Texas was allowed to take account of Ms. Fisher’s race. Now her case is hurtling toward the Supreme Court. That could provide a fresh opportunity to consider what we mean when we talk about diversity. It could also mean the end of affirmative action at public universities.
Ms. Fisher’s lawyers filed a petition seeking a Supreme Court review last month, and legal experts say the justices will probably agree to hear it, setting the stage for a decision by June. Such a decision, given changes in the membership of the court since 2003, is likely to cut back on if not eliminate the use of race in admissions decisions at public colleges and universities.
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Diversity=Reparations
Miss Fisher went about it all wrong. OK, she may have gone about it right if her goal is to topple a SCOTUS ruling, but if she wanted to get into the school she should have done what I did: check the “black” race box on the application. No one checks to see if you’re actually the race you selected—you turn the application in, it gets thrown in a pile with the others and you’re long gone when someone actually reads it. Keep in mind that you’re dealing with a huge bureaucracy that can be manipulated to your advantage. I even won scholarships that I’m pretty sure hinged on my “blackness” even though I’m white as rice.
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It is designed to promote race hatred and division. It is political correctness designed by the cultural Marxists such as Marcuse to destroy America from within.
‘But the meaning of the central concept in the decision — “this esoteric critical mass of diversity of students,” he called it — kept eluding him.’
Anyone care to try and interpret that?
Fixed it.
“But a brief filed in Ms. Fisher’s case by the Asian American Legal Foundation said that Texas had gone far beyond that threshold and sought “the odious and unlawful objective” of trying “to make the racial composition of its student body mirror the racial composition of the state of Texas.” The upshot, the brief said, was discrimination against Asian students.
A second brief, from the Asian Pacific American Legal Center and other Asian groups, took the opposite view, saying Asian students benefited from exposure to a diverse student body.”
I found the above to be VERY INTERESTING. Apparently, the Asian Pacific American Legal Center and other Asian groups are there to KEEP ASIANS OUT OF COLLEGE.
That just shows how liberal-infested these groups are, and how the (legitimate) immigrants of this country are being SHAFTED by the liberals claiming to represent them, but (apparently) don’t know our culture well enough to take control themselves.
Sure, it's easy. Just take a given student population and show it to Hillary Clinton. She will tell you, in five seconds flat, whether it is the correct critical mass ratio of races.
I don't know why people think this is so hard - or why they try to do it without Hillary. After all, these policies and laws were made FOR her oversight in the first place. Sheesh.
Select the black checkbox. If you are called on it, go to the university library and select any random anthropology text book. Each and every one of them state categorically the all of humanity came from africa.
But he’s more white than black
Yep. I witnessed this first-hand when I worked for a large construction company (ISEC, Inc.). They were focused on hiring based on “diversity” rather than on “qualifications”. It was a real nightmare trying to do my job while trying to train unqualified morons to read blue-prints. Most of those “diverse” employees were hired based solely upon their “ethinicity” and were then fired when the construction industry took a nose-dive in 2008.
Stoopid company with a lot of stoopid politically correct idiots running it.
And, as with most of her decisions, I wondered "What the hell is she talking about?"
Her decisions invariably read like "Mommy, trying to be 'fair'".
Miss Sandra was not President Reagan's best moment...
That might work but...
I recall some firefighters in San Jose California got in trouble for doing that. They realized it was the only way to earn a promotion so a few of the white firefighters checked the ‘black’ box. All I recall is threats of suspensions for lying on an application - I don’t know what happened.
“No one checks to see if you’re actually the race you selected”
Can’t you get in trouble for making false statements on those forms?
You sure can on mortgage apps.
She was his biggest, most avoidable mistake.
Why hasn’t the strongly Republican Texas state legislature, and Texas’ conservative-on-everything-except-immigration governor done anything about this? Maybe the governor has no authority over this in Texas, but surely the Texas legislature could stop Texas’ public universities from using racial preferences.
About half should be women, too. And don't forget the Differently Abled! There should be some wheelchair users in the NFL!!
Wow.
I suspected the federalization of the college loan program would mean indentured servitude... but I didn't get the economic/ethnic angle.
That move was on behalf of the university faculties and administrations, not the students.
Well, the SC may take it out before this happens, but I always figured that it would collapse when a definitively “white” appearing student is denied entry and then shows DNA/genealogy showing they are 10-20% African.
Once they have to start doing elaborate genetic tests and specifying racial percentages to several decimal points the system can’t survive.
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