Discrimination? Divine If “Benign,” Perfidious If “Invidious”
(I know, I know. “Perfidious” isn’t a word, but it’s not bad.) Last week (sorry again, but I’m still catching up) Stuart Buck had a perceptive comment on the part of Justice O’Connor’s opinion in Grutter where she announced that the Court deferred to the Michigan law school’s own determination that preferences were essential to […]
Will-ful Optimism Unjustified
I don’t disagree with George Will on many days, but — probably because I’m still in my Black Michigan Monday funk — today is one of them. Actually, the column in question is now several days old, but I’ve just gotten around to reading it. (There are about two zillion to which I haven’t yet […]
Preliminary Queries
My Internet access is still spotty (traveling in Calif., relying on libraries and friends for a while longer) and I have not been able, yet, to read, much lest digest, the Michigan opinions. Based on limited newspaper reading/radio listening, however, I have some queries I invite readers to answer. This is by way of asking […]
The New Diversity
From a fascinating article in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal: Because Jews are overrepresented in higher education compared with their share of the U.S. population, Jewish students normally don’t receive preference in admissions. Yet Franklin Rubinstein and Daniel Sokol, both Jewish, qualified for an admissions boost at the University of Chicago Law School, where they enrolled […]
Race Consciousness And Neutrality (?)
One indication of the new post-Grutter lay of the land comes from Washignton state (via the indispensable AADAP listserv). In an 8-1 ruling, the state supreme court held that taking race into account in school assignments does not violate Initiative 200, the voter-approved law that banned all racial preferences. The majority found the policy is […]
SanDra Day +2
Thanks to all of you who have commented, tracked back, etc. I’m not at all sure my tentative idea of “moving on” and making the best of “diversity” is a good one, but I am pretty sure it is a non-starter. I’ve already heard from enough friends, and read enough predictions of conservatives organizing around […]
SAnDra DAY
SAnDra Day has given us a very sad day. As mentioned below, I’m now in San Francisco, with only limited access to a computer (at least one whose Internet connection works). I heard the news early this morning, but have not yet read the opinions. I’ve also refrained from reading any other commentary so far, […]
Hiatus Explained…
The more observant among you will have noticed a longer that usual gap between my last post and the one before it. Since that, or a similar, gap may recur over the next two or three weeks, let me explain that I’m now house-sitting in San Francisco. And a lovely house it is, too, except […]
Principles And Orlando Patterson
Orlando Patterson’s OpEd in today’s New York Times confirms that he is one of the wiser people writing on race in America. (Apologies to those who become upset at seeing an adjective being forced into service as an antecedent.) Thus it seems almost churlish to criticize (and no, it will not do to ask what […]
Where There’s A Will There’s A (Right) Way
Several eagle-eyed readers emailed me to recommend George Will’s column in the June 23 issue of Newsweek, “Race Norming in Michigan.” They were right. It is terrific, excellent, first-rate. True, attentive DISCRIMINATIONS loyalists (and others who merely read) will have already seen a number of Will’s points, but he makes them much better. Some examples: […]
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