I am telling you, for example, that when you look at the totality of the sports offerings at top schools, and the athletes on the rosters, there are more white students than otherwise. White people are more likely to play tennis, golf, run cross country, be on a crew team (row), play volleyball, swim and dive, and so on.
So, when a benefit is given to athletes, it is more likely to benefit white prospects because there are more white kids playing those sports in high school and clubs.
Maybe because white people outnumber black people 5-to-1 in the US. Keeping playing mental gymnastics to make everything seem racist, though.
Or maybe because success in those sports depends on playing at the expensive club level (volleyball, swimming), or having access to private clubs and the best coaches (golf, tennis), or growing up in the correct zip code/affluence (rowing), and that creates a pool of athletes in those sports that is largely white.
That is not about "racism" per se.
But giving a nod to athletes does give a nod to more white prospects. It is what it is.
Along with Legacy, Development, Private Schools, and other criteria, it creates a system that can continue to benefit white prospects, in spite of this decision.
And a lot of posters on this thread will consider that a feature, not a bug.
Once again, in a nation committed to equality and equity for all - why is this decision even an issue?
You want to go to college? Do the work and achieve the same standard of education that everyone has to - irrespective of color. Quite simple.
If was so simple why didn't whites do it? Why did it take centuries and the need to pass Civil Rights Laws and enact programs to give someone other than white males an opportunity? We all know why....America has systemic racism and discrimination. Not as bad today as 40 or 50 years ago, but it is still very prevalent as evidenced by many of these dumb comments.
Because of systemic racism and discrimination is the reason why the average white families net worth is 9x that of the average black families net worth today...June 29, 2023. That is not by accident. That is the result of centuries of overt racism and discrimination in every facet of housing and business loans.
How are going to be legacy when many schools didn't admit people of color for centuries?
My parents couldn't attend the University of Alabama and the University of Georgia. They didn't admit blacks when they graduated...eventhough the state used their money they paid taxes with to help fund the schools.
Well you see, they won’t be getting passed over anymore because the only reason that minorities were even getting accepted was because they are not evil whites.
Lol yeah I bet. See you at the next manufactures gripe! Running out of excuses.
Were essays banned? No. There's one of your new scapegoats.
Good luck finding Thomas's concurrence on any of the leftist sites you follow...
What are you talking about? Thomas wrote the dissent in Fisher v. University of Texas. He clearly stated then that in his view the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment prohibited the use of race for consideration in the administration process. Your lack of education may have found it newsworthy, but Thomas's position on this hasn't changed in the last 7 years and you'd have to be some sort of slack jawed yokel to find it newsworthy that Thomas wrote the same thing he wrote 7 years ago. There is no intelligent source of information/news which didn't know his position on this or would be surprised that it did not change. You endlessly announce your ignorance, when will you stop?
You burst into tears before you even understood what you were pretending to be outraged about...
This was a really weak ruling. Schools can still consider the impact race has had on a student that may give them unique skills. Basically just hand wave to allow de facto affirmative action.
Military academies are exempt from the ruling?? Why?
Schools can still use location, economic factors, school quality, etc. for admissions. Schools can still seek out any diversity they want as long as they do not explicitly care only about race. This will lead to A LOT more lawsuits and waste of taxpayer dollars over nothing.
The ruling should have been much stronger or just upheld the practice.
The Hill, Newsweek, Slate, NBC, WaPo etc. have all reported on it.
I looked at a couple of those. They reported on the story because it's major but I don't see the text of Thomas's masterful dismantling of Jackson anywhere.
How are going to be legacy when many schools didn't admit people of color for centuries?
My parents couldn't attend the University of Alabama and the University of Georgia. They didn't admit blacks when they graduated...eventhough the state used their money they paid taxes with to help fund the schools.
More importantly, just like race, legacy is an accident of birth, not an earned merit.
LOL ... you need to spend a month in a high school in a poor minority area. Lack of resources, less money per student, less money for maintenance ... those go to more "privileged" schools (white student dominated). Quite simple, sad you are blind to the real world.
In New Jersey, many of the schools that spend the most per student are the worst. Asbury Park spends over 42k per student and is the worst district in the state.
Why is that surprising? Any parent with more than one child should understand that children have different needs that require a different amount of resources. Schools with students from impoverished families provide food, sometimes medical care, school supplies, clothing, books....
It's also harmful to actually qualified (non-Asian) minorities. I know one black person who, if I recall correctly, had a 1590 SAT (maybe 1580? But it was one of the top 20 (tied) in the state so I think it was 1590 or 1600) along with very strong extracurriculars. He was accepted almost everywhere he applied including race-blind places like Caltech and Berkeley. I think he'd have been accepted to most places if he were white or even Asian as well, but there's always that sliver of doubt that it wasn't due to merit because things like affirmative action existed
Once again, in a nation committed to equality and equity for all - why is this decision even an issue?
You want to go to college? Do the work and achieve the same standard of education that everyone has to - irrespective of color. Quite simple.
If was so simple why didn't whites do it? Why did it take centuries and the need to pass Civil Rights Laws and enact programs to give someone other than white males an opportunity? We all know why....America has systemic racism and discrimination. Not as bad today as 40 or 50 years ago, but it is still very prevalent as evidenced by many of these dumb comments.
Because of systemic racism and discrimination is the reason why the average white families net worth is 9x that of the average black families net worth today...June 29, 2023. That is not by accident. That is the result of centuries of overt racism and discrimination in every facet of housing and business loans.
You don’t really expect the rubes to understand, do you?
Once again, in a nation committed to equality and equity for all - why is this decision even an issue?
You want to go to college? Do the work and achieve the same standard of education that everyone has to - irrespective of color. Quite simple.
If was so simple why didn't whites do it? Why did it take centuries and the need to pass Civil Rights Laws and enact programs to give someone other than white males an opportunity? We all know why....America has systemic racism and discrimination. Not as bad today as 40 or 50 years ago, but it is still very prevalent as evidenced by many of these dumb comments.
Because of systemic racism and discrimination is the reason why the average white families net worth is 9x that of the average black families net worth today...June 29, 2023. That is not by accident. That is the result of centuries of overt racism and discrimination in every facet of housing and business loans.
Those white males you cry yourself to sleep about every single night are the ones who passed the Civil Rights Laws...
The average white family is worth 9x what the average black family is worth because of poor decisions made by black parent(s).
White people are so racist they created a system in which Asians dominate in almost every metric...
Stop blaming all of your failures on other people. Your shortcomings are your own and your own alone.
“Entrenched racial inequality remains a reality today,” Sotomayor said. “That is true for society writ large and, more specifically, for Harvard and the University of North Carolina (UNC), two institutions with a long history of racial exclusion.”
“Ignoring race will not equalize a society that is racially unequal,” she continued. “What was true in the 1860s, and again in 1954, is true today: Equality requires acknowledgment of inequality.”
Sotomayor also noted that her conservative colleagues relied on arguments found in the dissenting opinions of previous rulings, suggesting that these “lost arguments” are not grounds for overturning precedent and further degrade confidence in the court.
“When proponents of those arguments, greater now in number on the Court, return to fight old battles anew, it betrays an unrestrained disregard for precedent,” the justice said.
“It fosters the People’s suspicions that ‘bedrock principles are founded … in the proclivities of individuals’ on this Court, not in the law, and it degrades ‘the integrity of our constitutional system of government,’” she added.
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