Supreme Court ends affirmation action

458777 wrote:

Your white devil horns are showing.

So it black people's fault that they were red-lined?

So it was black people fault they were denied loans at 5x the rate as whites who had the exact credit scores and debt-to-equity ratios.

So it was black people's fault they were denied the right to vote?

So it was black people's fault their red-lined neighborhoods were burnt to the ground by racist white mobs throughout history and then the insurance companies refused to pay?

So it was African-Americans fault who were born into 250 years of slavery and 100 years of legalized discrimination by white folks?

So it was my grandparents fault they couldn't vote, or get a loan or attend school in rural Alabama in the 1940's?

So it's African-Americans fault that they couldn't pass generational wealth on to their kids and grandchildren?

So according to you black people are just lazy? If we were so lazy, then why did you forcibly bring us here to work for free for 250 years and then pay us exceedingly less than whites for doing the same work for another 150 years?

458777 wrote:

Your white devil horns are showing.

So it black people's fault that they were red-lined?

So it was black people fault they were denied loans at 5x the rate as whites who had the exact credit scores and debt-to-equity ratios.

So it was black people's fault they were denied the right to vote?

So it was black people's fault their red-lined neighborhoods were burnt to the ground by racist white mobs throughout history and then the insurance companies refused to pay?

So it was African-Americans fault who were born into 250 years of slavery and 100 years of legalized discrimination by white folks?

So it was my grandparents fault they couldn't vote, or get a loan or attend school in rural Alabama in the 1940's?

So it's African-Americans fault that they couldn't pass generational wealth on to their kids and grandchildren?

So according to you black people are just lazy? If we were so lazy, then why did you forcibly bring us here to work for free for 250 years and then pay us exceedingly less than whites for doing the same work for another 150 years?

hahvahd yahd wrote:

Harvard Alum here. I received this email a couple hours ago.

Dear Members of the Harvard Community,

Today, the Supreme Court delivered its decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College. The Court held that Harvard College’s admissions system does not comply with the principles of the equal protection clause embodied in Title VI of the Civil Rights Act. The Court also ruled that colleges and universities may consider in admissions decisions “an applicant’s discussion of how race affected his or her life, be it through discrimination, inspiration, or otherwise.” We will certainly comply with the Court’s decision.

We write today to reaffirm the fundamental principle that deep and transformative teaching, learning, and research depend upon a community comprising people of many backgrounds, perspectives, and lived experiences. That principle is as true and important today as it was yesterday. So too are the abiding values that have enabled us—and every great educational institution—to pursue the high calling of educating creative thinkers and bold leaders, of deepening human knowledge, and of promoting progress, justice, and human flourishing.

We affirm that:
Because the teaching, learning, research, and creativity that bring progress and change require debate and disagreement, diversity and difference are essential to academic excellence.

To prepare leaders for a complex world, Harvard must admit and educate a student body whose members reflect, and have lived, multiple facets of human experience. No part of what makes us who we are could ever be irrelevant.
Harvard must always be a place of opportunity, a place whose doors remain open to those to whom they had long been closed, a place where many will have the chance to live dreams their parents or grandparents could not have dreamed.

For almost a decade, Harvard has vigorously defended an admissions system that, as two federal courts ruled, fully complied with longstanding precedent. In the weeks and months ahead, drawing on the talent and expertise of our Harvard community, we will determine how to preserve, consistent with the Court’s new precedent, our essential values.

The heart of our extraordinary institution is its people. Harvard will continue to be a vibrant community whose members come from all walks of life, all over the world. To our students, faculty, staff, researchers, and alumni—past, present, and future—who call Harvard your home, please know that you are, and always will be, Harvard. Your remarkable contributions to our community and the world drive Harvard’s distinction. Nothing today has changed that.

Sincerely,
Lawrence S. Bacow
President, Harvard University

TheAdultInTheRoom wrote:

458777 wrote:

Your white devil horns are showing.

So it black people's fault that they were red-lined?

So it was black people fault they were denied loans at 5x the rate as whites who had the exact credit scores and debt-to-equity ratios.

So it was black people's fault they were denied the right to vote?

So it was black people's fault their red-lined neighborhoods were burnt to the ground by racist white mobs throughout history and then the insurance companies refused to pay?

So it was African-Americans fault who were born into 250 years of slavery and 100 years of legalized discrimination by white folks?

So it was my grandparents fault they couldn't vote, or get a loan or attend school in rural Alabama in the 1940's?

So it's African-Americans fault that they couldn't pass generational wealth on to their kids and grandchildren?

So according to you black people are just lazy? If we were so lazy, then why did you forcibly bring us here to work for free for 250 years and then pay us exceedingly less than whites for doing the same work for another 150 years?

Is it the 1940s?

Is it 1850?

They tried to round up every Jew in the world and kill them all not too long ago. The Jews have somehow managed to rebound.

African immigrants all do better than African-Americans.

In fact ALL immigrants do better than African-Americans.

Things that happened in the past are not an excuse for your failures TODAY.

Stay in school. Graduate. Get a job. Stop crapping out kids you have no interest in raising.

It's really not that hard.

458777 wrote:

While we can all agree in a perfect world, one would not be judged on their race and skin color based on entry into schools or places of employment. However in America we have a complete and very long history of doing just that....excluding people based on race, color and I add gender.

As for Affirmative Action, America has had ever since the first European stepped foot on this continent and assumed he was superior to the people already here and that thinking unfortunately has carried on to this very day. Only in the last 45 years or so have institutions and employers tried to consider non whites and women for admission into schools and certain jobs. Now the old white guys think 45 years is too much, as if someone took their spot. I could argue the same since 1619...as millions of white males took my ancestors spots at Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.

Minorities and women, when given the opportunity in the same environment, perform the same as white males...but with much less prejudice and bias.

TheAdultInTheRoom wrote:

hahvahd yahd wrote:

Harvard Alum here. I received this email a couple hours ago.

Dear Members of the Harvard Community,

Today, the Supreme Court delivered its decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College. The Court held that Harvard College’s admissions system does not comply with the principles of the equal protection clause embodied in Title VI of the Civil Rights Act. The Court also ruled that colleges and universities may consider in admissions decisions “an applicant’s discussion of how race affected his or her life, be it through discrimination, inspiration, or otherwise.” We will certainly comply with the Court’s decision.

We write today to reaffirm the fundamental principle that deep and transformative teaching, learning, and research depend upon a community comprising people of many backgrounds, perspectives, and lived experiences. That principle is as true and important today as it was yesterday. So too are the abiding values that have enabled us—and every great educational institution—to pursue the high calling of educating creative thinkers and bold leaders, of deepening human knowledge, and of promoting progress, justice, and human flourishing.

We affirm that:
Because the teaching, learning, research, and creativity that bring progress and change require debate and disagreement, diversity and difference are essential to academic excellence.

To prepare leaders for a complex world, Harvard must admit and educate a student body whose members reflect, and have lived, multiple facets of human experience. No part of what makes us who we are could ever be irrelevant.
Harvard must always be a place of opportunity, a place whose doors remain open to those to whom they had long been closed, a place where many will have the chance to live dreams their parents or grandparents could not have dreamed.

For almost a decade, Harvard has vigorously defended an admissions system that, as two federal courts ruled, fully complied with longstanding precedent. In the weeks and months ahead, drawing on the talent and expertise of our Harvard community, we will determine how to preserve, consistent with the Court’s new precedent, our essential values.

The heart of our extraordinary institution is its people. Harvard will continue to be a vibrant community whose members come from all walks of life, all over the world. To our students, faculty, staff, researchers, and alumni—past, present, and future—who call Harvard your home, please know that you are, and always will be, Harvard. Your remarkable contributions to our community and the world drive Harvard’s distinction. Nothing today has changed that.

Sincerely,
Lawrence S. Bacow
President, Harvard University

Larry really hates Asians.

hahvahd yahd wrote:

Harvard Alum here. I received this email a couple hours ago.

Dear Members of the Harvard Community,

Today, the Supreme Court delivered its decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College. The Court held that Harvard College’s admissions system does not comply with the principles of the equal protection clause embodied in Title VI of the Civil Rights Act. The Court also ruled that colleges and universities may consider in admissions decisions “an applicant’s discussion of how race affected his or her life, be it through discrimination, inspiration, or otherwise.” We will certainly comply with the Court’s decision.

We write today to reaffirm the fundamental principle that deep and transformative teaching, learning, and research depend upon a community comprising people of many backgrounds, perspectives, and lived experiences. That principle is as true and important today as it was yesterday. So too are the abiding values that have enabled us—and every great educational institution—to pursue the high calling of educating creative thinkers and bold leaders, of deepening human knowledge, and of promoting progress, justice, and human flourishing.

We affirm that:
Because the teaching, learning, research, and creativity that bring progress and change require debate and disagreement, diversity and difference are essential to academic excellence.

To prepare leaders for a complex world, Harvard must admit and educate a student body whose members reflect, and have lived, multiple facets of human experience. No part of what makes us who we are could ever be irrelevant.
Harvard must always be a place of opportunity, a place whose doors remain open to those to whom they had long been closed, a place where many will have the chance to live dreams their parents or grandparents could not have dreamed.

For almost a decade, Harvard has vigorously defended an admissions system that, as two federal courts ruled, fully complied with longstanding precedent. In the weeks and months ahead, drawing on the talent and expertise of our Harvard community, we will determine how to preserve, consistent with the Court’s new precedent, our essential values.

The heart of our extraordinary institution is its people. Harvard will continue to be a vibrant community whose members come from all walks of life, all over the world. To our students, faculty, staff, researchers, and alumni—past, present, and future—who call Harvard your home, please know that you are, and always will be, Harvard. Your remarkable contributions to our community and the world drive Harvard’s distinction. Nothing today has changed that.

Sincerely,
Lawrence S. Bacow
President, Harvard University