Rejected for being White: Supreme Courts looks at Affirmative Action..again.

[mixiboi]

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/09/us...pagewanted=all

Abigail Fisher is a slight young woman with strawberry blond hair, a smile that needs little prompting, a determined manner and a good academic record. She played soccer in high school, and she is an accomplished cellist.

But the university she had her heart set on, the one her father and sister had attended, rejected her. “I was devastated,” she said, in her first news interview since she was turned down by the University of Texas at Austin four years ago.

Ms. Fisher, 22, who is white and recently graduated from Louisiana State University, says that her race was held against her, and the Supreme Court is to hear her case on Wednesday, bringing new attention to the combustible issue of the constitutionality of racial preferences in admissions decisions by public universities.

“I’m hoping,” she said, “that they’ll completely take race out of the issue in terms of admissions and that everyone will be able to get into any school that they want no matter what race they are but solely based on their merit and if they work hard for it.”

Gurl, you and me both.....But I'll take it a step farther...I hope that everyone can have the same education as you so they will be able to get into any school that they want no matter what.


Until then, too bad so sad....

[seand]

Roberts is going to lead the move to overturn the consideration of race - at all - in admissions this term. They will now seek diversity in admissions in economic and geographic terms.

I'm betting $5 on it.

There has already been speculation that part of individual mandate as tax was to set the ground for political cover for this decision.

[Giavella Water]

The entire program of Affirmative Action has been as The late Charlton Heston said; "a pox upon the land".

[sharkey]

Why would Roberts need political cover? He is apponited for life so that he does not have to worry about such things.

[OffenseTaken]

Why would Roberts need political cover? He is apponited for life so that he does not have to worry about such things.

In theory, SCOTUS justices are as concerned with their individual places in legal history as elected officials are with approval ratings. Plus, justices don't want to damage the reputation of the judiciary by seeming like a bunch of partisan hacks.

However much this is the case, I don't think it applies to the situation seand brings up. Roberts' decision on the individual mandate was classic Roberts, even if it did vindicate the Obama administration.

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[mixiboi]

The entire program of Affirmative Action has been as The late Charlton Heston said; "a pox upon the land".

Turnabout is fair play.

[Pitt]

Universities aim to create their idea of an intellectually virtuous class of students. The make up of the class is meant to benefit the students themselves. The make up and settings of the places I attended school are 2 of the main reasons I chose them.

[toxigal]

i wish my school had been more diverse. i went to a very white high school and ended up at a very white college. I was not exposed to wide diversity until my early 20's and feel i would have a better understanding of the impact of race and culture on a person if i had been exposed to differences at an earlier age.

[mixiboi]

I am walking diversity so I know how it feels to bare the responsibility of exposing people to it...Which is why I always feel these cases are more about getting what they want, which is great in America...but not so great for America.

[seand]

There are folks that argue weighting diversity strictly on economic terms, not only benefits poor whites, but also increases real diversity in terms reflecting the brightest of "all of America" instead continually recycling the children of a small but priveleged subset of ethnic minority "tokens".

I'm not sure where I stand. I'm just saying not-raced base is not necessarily anti-diversity.