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The Center for Urban Renewal and Education’s (CURE) policy analyst, Raheem Williams, write a report called Race-Based Affirmative Action: Elite Dishonesty (PDF), where he address facts about this discriminatory policy to put the recent Supreme Court decision in context.
The court ruled last month that Harvard University’s and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s racial preference admissions policies violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Ultra-elite universities submitted amicus briefs in the case supporting racial discrimination in applications.
“Although several selective colleges have lamented the end of race-based affirmative action,” Williams wrote, “these complaints are best viewed as crocodile tears. In our current era of rapidly evolving information technology, prestigious and elite invitations could dramatically increase enrollment without sacrificing quality.”
Download the eight-page report here.
“Race-based” affirmative action seems a little redundant.
Sex Based, Thought Based, Income Based, those would redundant also. What You look like, How You think, or What You have Shouldn’t have a bearing on Your Test Scores!
Sex Based, Thought Based, Income Based, those would be redundant also. What You look like, How You think, or What You have Shouldn’t have a bearing on Your Test Scores!