Justice Department: 45% of Blacks at Harvard Admitted Through Illegal Race Preferences

“Harvard “considers applicants’ race at virtually every step.”

So does UCLA. And when a UCLA professor proved that UCLA pushes minorities with illegal tactics, the professor was shunned and then his friends at Princeton gave him a job and helped him escape the jungle.

I watched a video of a black professor at Harvard explain his current research: first names. Yup. First names which is step up from basket weaving. He said that “Ashley” can be used by both high class families and low class families. Of course, he ignored middle class families like a good marxist and has a useless research project.
Harvard, Berkeley, UCLA and other have seriously damaged their brands and the alumni are not pleased.

...Public K-12 schools are where the real problems are. How many schools in Baltimore where none of the kids can pass the math proficiency test?..

The problem is that intelligence is highly inheritable. AND is correlated with earning potential.

So, if you take a class of kids with parents who have self-selected to live in a slum and who can not pass on any love of learning to their children, mix in a fair number of troublemakers and leaven with a lot of ghetto attitude, it would be a miracle if more than a very few had any math proficiency.

Then add in the Politically Correct assumption that all kids are equally intelligent and we have an unsolvable problem.

Similar experience with a black Harvard law grad. As a lawyer, I had trouble understanding his reasoning process but was afraid to criticize it. After he left a meeting, I and another colleague tried to summarize what he had just said. Neither one of us could make sense of it. That emboldened us to inquire further with others whom he had advised. They didn’t understand him either. It was theorized that, perhaps, his legal intellect so far exceeded ours that we were just too stupid to get it. General Counsel thought otherwise and finally cut him loose.

We worked with numbers—some moderately complex calculations (but formulas, not calculus or anything)—and there was only one possible correct answer—and he was the only professional in the room that couldn’t do the math.

He was such a nice guy—and he knew what he didn’t know—and would ask for help—and would never speak when he was out of his depth. He never would fake it because he really wanted the team to succeed. I always admired him for that.

“Almost half of all blacks and Hispanics who attend Harvard were admitted because of illegal racial preferences in admissions...”

Note that this does not mean that race was not considered for the other half of blacks and Hispanics admitted. It just means that such considerations are not alleged to have been illegal.

I was on the Admissions Committee of a well-known university. Our job was to consider those applications that were “at the margin” of acceptance and decide on a case-by-case basis. The time frame was late ‘70’s and early ‘80’s. As I recall, more than half were minority students. In some cases, I argued that admitting them was little more than taking their tuition for a semester after which they would flunk out. I asked for followup statistics on the admission of such students, but was denied access to them.

My first full time teaching job was at another well-known university.Two minority students from the basketball team came into my office two weeks before the final, and asked for the exam. I reminded them that the exam was two weeks away. They said they knew that, but other profs gave them copies of the exams so they could study it before it was given. I said no. Within 60 seconds, a senior faculty member was in my office telling me I had to give them the exam. I asked why I should do that. I got the typical liberal BS about disadvantaged minorities, fairness, blah-blah-blah. I asked him how fair is it when these guys, who were not good enough to go pro, applied for a job with our degree and the employer quick discovers they know nothing. How fair is that to our graduates who earned their degree?

Crickets...

I never had another student athlete is any of my classes.

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