A Cose Benefit Analysis Of Affirmative Action
Prefatory Note: Some readers will have noticed that I haven’t posted in the past several days. Part of the reason is a holiday break: we’ve been visiting family, friends, and others since the day before Thanksgiving, and generally traveling about Georgia and South Carolina, and that has put a crimp in my posting efforts. But […]
Los Angeles Times Assesses Ward Connerly, Affirmative Action
The Los Angeles Times has a long article about Ward Connerly today that is its version of fair and balanced, which is to say that it notes Connerly’s past accomplishments and quotes him saying the era of affirmative action is coming to a close, and it quotes various opponents calling him a “sellout” and an […]
More On Asians As The “New Jews”
A couple of weeks ago I wrote, here, of a new complaint that selective schools that give affirmative action preferences to blacks and Hispanics affirmatively discriminate against Asians. Now Christopher Shea, writing in the Boston Globe, has more. In the late 1980s, in response to complaints, the Office of Civil Rights investigated whether Harvard had […]
A Black Man’s Comments On N—-rs Niggers
A friend sent me this article from the current Esquire by John Ridley, “The Manifesto of Ascendancy for the Modern American Nigger.” Read it if you can, but since I’m not sure the link will work for long here is how it begins: Let me tell you something about niggers, the oppressed minority within our […]
Is Affirmative Action Fair And Necessary? Of Cose It Is…
We last encountered Newsweek contributing editor Ellis Cose and his establishment views of affirmative action here, not long ago. Now he’s at it again, this time with an OpEd in the Baltimore Sun. Cose of course equates affirmative action with fairness, as indicated by the title of his piece, “Affirmative Action Slips, But Will Fairness […]
A Level Playing Field?
By their metaphors shall you know them…. And one of the most persistent, and pernicious, metaphors in the debate over racial preferences is that they are needed “to level the playing field” or because “the playing field is still not level.” Examples are all over the place, but here’s one, from the principal of Waverly […]
University Of Michigan: Scofflaw?
The Detroit News reports this morning that “the University of Michigan launched a task force charged with ensuring diversity on campus.” Called “Diversity Blueprints,” the group of students, faculty, staff and alumni will brainstorm creative solutions to sustain a “diverse learning community” within the confines of Proposal 2, which authorized an amendment to ban government […]
A White Scholarship In Boston
The Boston Globe reports this morning that in order to provoke a debate over racial preferences the Boston University College Republicans are offering a $250 scholarship that requires the recipient to be at least one quarter white and to have at least a 3.2 grade point average. Applicants have to submit a photo of themselves […]
The Groucho Marx Approach To Higher Education
Groucho Marx once famously said that he didn’t care to belong to any club that had people like him as members. I was reminded of this comment today in reading this article about this report, “Engines of Inequality: Diminishing Equity in the Nation’s Premier Public Universities,” recently released by the Education Trust. As described on […]
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