Supreme Court signals it may outlaw most affirmative action at universities
The Supreme Court takes on affirmative action, and its conservative justices may be ready to forbid race as a factor in admissions to universities.
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According to prevailing law, race may not be used as an acceptance criterion, one way or another. A rogue Supreme Court opined many years ago that "diversity" was a goal worth pursuing, in order to preserve Affirmative Action under a different name.
But that assertion is not manifestly correct. What is the benefit of "diversity" in the classroom or workplace? Where are the data to support that claim? They do not exist.
When I was growing up in the 50's, Negroes lamented the fact that they could not be evaluated equally with "whites"; they had to be better. This lament has been turned on its head: "We MUST be evaluated under lower criteria, otherwise we will always come up short." Better to stick with the law, ignore race, so that those Blacks who come out ahead are not stigmatized with the "Affirmative Action" stain.
Like the Vice President.