Words do make a difference. Any tiny hint of "discrimination" against Blacks is immediately "racism" or "bigotry" -- incendiary words among the worst labels that can be applied to a person in the modern west -- right up there with "Nazi"!
"Racial preferences" are obviously discrimination (by definition), however when they are applied to a MINORITY group, are they not also bigotry? When a 6% minority of the US population performs via merit at a level that would otherwise make them an over 50% majority of the Harvard Freshmen, how can we use anything less than "bigotry" as a label?
Under Harvard’s current admissions regime, according to an analysis of the data by SFFA expert witness Peter Arcidiacano, a GPA-test score combination that would give an Asian-American applicant only a 25 percent chance of admission would give an otherwise identical African-American a 95 percent chance, a Latino a 77 percent chance, and a white a 36 -percent chance. Asian Americans, though, are a far larger percentage of Harvard’s admitted students (22.7 percent this year, for example) than of the college-age U.S. population (about 6 percent). This still does not preclude a finding that Harvard discriminates against Asian Americans.
They are so much stronger academically than all other racial groups that the SFFA estimates if “Harvard admitted students based only on their academic index, Asian Americans would comprise over 50 percent of the admitted class.” (The school has increased Asian-American admissions substantially since the lawsuit was filed in 2014, which the plaintiff dismisses as a litigation strategy.)
MLK had a drream for his four little children ... "I have a dream that my four little chi1dren will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the conte·nt of their character"!
I imagine that dream did not include little oriental, hispanic, or even white children being ALSO judged by the color of their skin vs the content of their character!
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