Affirmative Action and Higher Education: Help or Hindrance?

Gail Heriot, Professor of Law at University of San Diego School of Law, Roger Clegg, President of Center for Equal Opportunity, and Ted Delaney, Professor of History at Washington and Lee University discuss recent findings on the effects of affirmative action.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• affirmative action
• race
• law school admissions

[drbayoms]

@philosopheromone

"Obama himself is an affirmative-action fraud".

So was Clarence Thomas. But I suspect you will allow that one to "slide".

[drbayoms]

@Drogyne

Sure you did.

[Drogyne]

@silverakisame Hear, hear! I am a Black woman who graduated from a prestigious Canadian law school with ties to the Ivy League system. I worked hard and wanted absolutely no admission considerations based on my gender or race. In fact, I scrubbed out all such "diversity advantage" boxes on my application, because I wanted to be considered solely on academic merit. I suppose this would earn me the epithet of Auntie Tom by the "blame Whitey for everything" crowd, but I earned my degrees honestly.

[silverakisame]

Black people wouldn't know what to do with themselves if they didn't have racism to blame for their problems. I'm sorry, but I'm not going to apologize for randomly being born white. Why should black people get an advantage just for randomly being born black? How is it not racist to pick a minority candidate to fill a quota? If a black person has worked hard enough to get into a college, he should go. Not because he's black, because he's done the requirements.

[Darling137]

It is incredible that a professor from a major university would suggest that we shouldn't discuss a subject in public.

[philosopheromone]

Notice how the black "professor" was basically incoherent and said nothing that was even relevant to the topic, other than to complain about being black, or complain about how others had to go through life as blacks or whatever?

[philosopheromone]

Bravo to Roger Clegg!

Unfortunately the Marxists will not yield to reason and polite, mild-mannered milquetoasts who gently and peevishly point out the horrible travesty that is affirmative action and all other "diversity" agendas...the only thing these dishonest blackmailers understand is strength and force...so we must kick them in the teeth until they relent.

Obama himself is an affirmative-action fraud.