Benign discrimination? (Correction, Please!).ITEM: "The question at the center" of the debate at the U.S. Supreme Court on April 1st, said the Detroit Free Press The Detroit Free Press is the largest daily newspaper in Detroit, Michigan, USA. It is sometimes informally referred to as the "Freep". Some still refer to it locally as "The Friendly" -- a slogan from an ad campaign in the '70s. , "is whether the Constitution leaves room to advance the opportunities that America has always promised for each and every one of its citizens. Surely the answer must be yes. If the high court strikes down the University of Michigan's use of affirmative action affirmative action, in the United States, programs to overcome the effects of past societal discrimination by allocating jobs and resources to members of specific groups, such as minorities and women. in admission, it will severely hamper efforts by colleges -- and employers, including the US. military -- to reach out to people they shunned for generations." CORRECTION: Affirmative Action does not create equal opportunity but destroys it. The University of Michigan's "affirmative action" discrimination is blatant, with Asians and whites, for example, held to stricter standards than government-recognized "victim" groups. At the law school there is a quota, disguised as a needed "critical mass" of minorities. To reach this quota, court testimony reveals, mere membership in certain groups increases the odds of acceptance "many, many (tens to hundreds) times" that of a white person -- the equivalent of more than a full point in GPA GPA abbr. grade point average Noun 1. GPA - a measure of a student's academic achievement at a college or university; calculated by dividing the total number of grade points received by the total number attempted or at least a 20 percentile percentile, n the number in a frequency distribution below which a certain percentage of fees will fall. E.g., the ninetieth percentile is the number that divides the distribution of fees into the lower 90% and the upper 10%, or that fee level boost on the LSATs. For undergraduate admission, an applicant automatically gets far more credit for being black, Hispanic, or Native American than for scoring a perfect 1,600 on SAT exams. Yes, feeble justifications are offered for this bias. Nevertheless, as Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas Clarence Thomas (born June 23, 1948) is an American jurist and has been an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States since 1991. He is the second African American to serve on the nation's highest court, after Justice Thurgood Marshall. wrote in another case involving racial preferences (Adarand Constr., Inc. v. Pena): "[G]overnment-sponsored racial discrimination based on benign prejudice [e.g., affirmative action] is just as noxious noxious adj. harmful to health, often referring to nuisances. as discrimination inspired by malicious prejudice. In each instance, it is racial discrimination, plain and simple." |
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