Jennifer Gratz: “It’s Time For ‘Equal’ To Mean Equal”

Jennifer Gratz has a moving and entirely persuasive essay on a CNN blog. You should read it.

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  1. Cobra March 11, 2012 at 4:41 pm | | Reply

    Jennifer Gratz writes:

    “When I applied to University of Michigan in Ann Arbor for admission in 1995, I thought it was my path to medical school. When I received a rejection letter, I ultimately reconsidered my career choice, and pursued a degree in math at another University of Michigan campus. My confidence was shaken.”

    ROTFLMBAO!

    I must admit, I have written and drawn political cartoons about Ms. Gratz in the past…mostly on this blog. I find her FASCINATING, because by her own words, she is detailing her life-altering, continent-spanning jihad against American Minority Progress…because she was wait-listed on her first, and ONLY college application.

    That’s it. Her own words.

    She CHANGED her dream career choice in medicine–because she was wait-listed at the Ann-Arbor Campus of the University of Michigan. (as if that the ONLY school in Michigan that offered that course of study)

    Because she was wait-listed at the only college she applied to, she has led an assault on minority progress in America so intense that the Supreme Court heard her case. She’s dusted off her high school pom-poms and cheers from the sidelines on the upcoming case to be held there as well.

    Because she was wait-listed at the only college she applied to, Ms. Gratz goes into details about the path of racial progress destruction from state to state her human tornado has leveled.

    Read more of her words:

    ” Justice Sandra Day O’Connor penned the 5-4 decision in Grutter, letting state-sanctioned racial discrimination continue for one reason only – to promote racial diversity on college campuses. The court acknowledged that race preferences were discriminatory and a majority agreed that one day this discrimination should be unconstitutional. O’Connor even wrote that she hoped these policies would no longer be necessary by 2028. Talk about a kick to the gut, government sanctioned discrimination in the form of race preferences was allowed to continue in order to promote the “common good.””

    Because she was wait-listed at the

  2. Cobra March 11, 2012 at 5:07 pm | | Reply

    –cont’d…

    …only college she applied to, Ms. Gratz is spoiled to set fire and burn down public “racial preferences” in a nation built on and rife with PRIVATE “racial preferences.” There’s a REASON why government (public sector) is the number #1 employer of African-American Males and #2 employer of African-American females. The private sector uses racial preferences AGAINST minority hiring/promotion, as much as it can get away with.

    But because she was wait-listed at the only college she applied to, Ms. Gratz is on a mission to change all of that, right? A life-long, all-encompassing obsession to make PRIVATE racial preferences and PERSONAL racial preferences reign supreme in America, while trying to mask the stench by wafting sterile “color-blind society” idioms.

    Yes, it’s pretty apparent. Jennifer Gratz is out for vengeance against every single black, brown and demonstrably non-white face in America because–hold for it…

    …she was wait-listed at the only college she applied to.

    -Cobra

  3. rogermortimer March 13, 2012 at 6:03 pm | | Reply

    Cobra – the issue that is near and dear to Gratz is really inconsequential in the scheme of things. Accordingly, getting worked up about her views is similarly inconsequential.

    The blunt truth is that only 20% or so of the nation’s undergraduate schools are competitive in terms of admission. There are any number of schools marginally qualified high school students can attend. One can, if they are assiduous and dedicated to development, do very well at these schools.

    The real problem is that the K-12 system is pumping out so many which are unprepared for true college work. Many colleges have responded by watering down their curricula, but that is hardly progress. And note that this overall lack of achievement has obtained despite the US as a nation spending 3X (in inflation adjusted dollars) what it did in 1970 on K-12 education. Look at California – not only has it spent 3X what it did in 1970 but it has moved from one of the best in terms of educational achievement in 1970 to one of the worst – right “down there” with Mississippi, ranked 49th among states. It is inexcusable, and the real elephant in the room is the sorry state of public education in this country and the achievement of its students. And a large part of the problem is with minority achievement. Something grievously wrong has happened – whether derived from family, bureaucratic schools, teachers unions, out of wedlock birth rates, and so on.

    The blunt truth is that affirmative action as practiced at our most selective universities is really just a symbolic issue. Now, I concede that you may view it as a hugely important symbolic issue, but affirmative action or the lack thereof is just not an issue that statistically can impact many people, including blacks. (The top schools require a score of 700 on each of the math and critical reasoning sections of the SAT – a score level obtained for about a 1000 or so black students each year – this just cannot be a significant issue in raw, statistical terms). I just have trouble getting worked up over Gratz. The issue is elliptical – and you seem to see it yourself – as if getting excluded from Michigan with the option (if she chose wisely) to go to (gasp) Michigan State was a big darn deal. It is not.

  4. Cobra March 15, 2012 at 12:17 am | | Reply

    Roger,

    Again, you make great and reasonable points. I cannot argue with you about the importance of improving (and not DESTROYING) the K-12 public school system in many parts of our country.

    I also agree with you that preparing kids for college requires more than just the school system. But facts are facts about a College Education:

    “College and university access increased for all Americans during the latter part of the 20th century. The number of white Americans earning a bachelor’s degree or higher has tripled, from 8% in 1960 to 26% in 2000. During the same time period, blacks have nearly quintupled their college graduation rate — in 1960, just 3% of blacks earned a college degree, compared with more than 14% today.”

    http://www.gallup.com/poll/18487/blacks-whites-advantage-college-admissions.aspx

    And in an economy where low-skilled wage jobs have been outsourced, and manufacturing decimated, it’s more important than ever for ANYBODY seeking to get ahead to have a college education, and in some cases, a competitive college education.

    That’s why I’ve found your arguments a little more compelling than most of the anti-affirmative action types that post here. You seem to understand the intrinsic value of the education itself without the White majority entitlement stigma that stalks the “color-blind now, color-blind tomorrow, color-blind forever” missives posted here.

    –Cobra

  5. Steve March 16, 2012 at 6:05 pm | | Reply

    But because she was wait-listed at the only college she applied to, Ms. Gratz is on a mission to change all of that, right?

    Geesh, yeah, it probably only happened that one time.

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