New Zealand, The Maori, And The Non-Sequitur Of The Day
From Why affirmative action in science can be a good thing, by Chris Smith, who “grew up in New Zealand,” in Ars Technica: Let me say upfront that I am a fan of affirmative action. I believe that the better off in society have a responsibility to remove barriers that prevent an entire group from [...]
Another “Underrepresented” Group At Berkeley: Americans
From today’s San Jose Mercury News: A groundbreaking study of undergraduate students at the University of California-Berkeley found that 63 percent either were born outside the United States or have at least one foreign-born parent. According to the study, immigrants or children of immigrants make up a far larger portion of the population at the [...]
Obama’s Color Lines
Juan Williams has an endorsement of Barack Obama in today’s New York Times, “Obama’s Color Line,” arguing, among other things, that Obama “is asking voters to move with him beyond race and beyond the civil rights movement to a politics of shared values.” Perhaps Williams is right. Perhaps Obama does represent the Great White, or [...]
Liberal Lawyers Try To “Diversify” Profession
Peter Schmidt reports on the Chronicle of Higher Education blog today that advocates of racial diversity in the legal profession are struggling to reshape the profession. The liberal-leaning American Constitution Society had assembled the panel of advocates at the National Press Club in hopes of finding ways to get law schools, law students, and the [...]
Is Legal Status An Impermissible “Non-Academic Criterion”?
The Chronicle of Higher Education reports this morning, based on this Associated Press article in the Charlotte Observer, that North Carolina’s community colleges must admit illegal immigrants. David Sullivan, the system’s general counsel, wrote in a memorandum this month that “colleges should immediately begin admitting undocumented individuals,” highlighting the phrase in bold type. State regulations [...]
Episcopalians, “White Privilege,” And A Progressive “Privilege” Tax
You’d think Episcopalians would know all about “white privilege,” wouldn’t you. Well, apparently those in the Diocese of Southern Virginia think they still have much to learn, according to this email from reader Kent Chitwood that I post with permission: I live in Bristol, Tennessee, which is on the border of Tennessee and Virginia. My [...]
Asian Discrimination Gave Birth To Civil Rights Initiatives
In an interview with the Dartmouth Review (HatTip to Americans Against Discrimination and Preferences Mailing List), Ward Connerly suggests that his effort to eliminate racial preferences began with his seeing the widespread discrimination against Asians in the University of California. I was born in the Deep South in Louisiana in 1939, and I have seen [...]
Heretical North Carolina Democrat!
Swimming valiantly against the tide of national Democratic Party orthodoxy, state senator Walter Dalton, one of the two leading candidates in the North Carolina Democratic primary for lieutenant governor, actually opposes race preferences, in public! He stated in response to a question on a questionnaire that state government should always hire the “best qualified person,” [...]
Asians: A Convenient Minority
The Chronicle of Higher Education reports this morning that [t]wenty percent of the more than 26,000 research doctorates awarded to U.S. citizens by American universities in 2006 went to members of minority groups, according to a newly released report sponsored by a cross-section of federal agencies. At first blush this seems right, and impressive, since [...]
Two Institutions Done In By “Diversity”
Everyone should read this remarkable article in the Weekly Standard about the demise of Antioch College. Although Antioch was destroyed by countless self-inflicted wounds, not all the wounds were self-inflicted. The money given to it by the Rockefeller Foundation alone, for example, might have been enough to cause Antioch’s decline and possible death. The first [...]
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