Affirmative Action Quote Of The Week

You can’t lump all Hispanics together,” said [Ray]Rodriguez, the director of affirmative action at [New Jersey’s] Monmouth University, West Long Branch. “You have Central Americans, you have Mexicans, you have Cubans. It’s easier to lump them all together, I guess.”

If Monmouth University offers preferential admissions and hiring, I’m sure it, like all other institutions with which I’m familiar, has preferences for “Hispanics,” not for Mexicans, Cubans, Guatemalans, etc.

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  1. John S Bolton September 20, 2004 at 12:56 am | | Reply

    The fact that natives of Mexico and all these countries in Latin America, not to mention black countries on either side of the atlantic, are eligible for government-enforced anti-merit recruitment, proves that affirmative action is not about building up the disadvantaged or compensating blacks for ancestral disabilities; but is a way of setting groups into conflict. It is purely malicious; not driven by solicitude or charitable impulses.

  2. wsm September 21, 2004 at 3:34 pm | | Reply

    Actually, some universities (e.g., I think, my alma mater, Yale) do not include Cuban Americans in their affirmative action programs. I presume they don’t want a predominantly Republican group.

  3. Rich September 23, 2004 at 6:00 pm | | Reply

    Oddly enough, it seems not only possible to ‘lump all whites together’, but mandatory. Just ask Cobra, he seems to do it pretty near every post.

    What’s up with that?

    Rich

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