June 2009

Privileged Kid Benefits from Preferences

June 10, 2009

In the you-won’t-believe-this department, we have a story about the son of the Dallas School Superintendent benefiting from a preference program. (Source) Michael Hinojosa earns over $300,000 a year, and his son Michael participated in a program for disadvantaged students. The program is run by a contractor the Dallas Independent School District paid $1.6 million. [...]

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Is the End Near for Racial Preferences?

June 9, 2009

With a preferences supporting biracial president in the White House and a preferences supporting “wise Latina” judge awaiting confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court, there’s no time like the present to openly debate the fairness of so-called affirmative action and the means by which to end it once and for all. The National Policy Institute [...]

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Sotomayor’s Ethnicity Ethics

June 9, 2009

U.S. Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor is an ethnicity-focused “wise Latina” who believes race and sex should factor into judicial decisions. The Washington Times agrees and stands firm against Sotomayor’s confirmation. As the paper notes, the White House has tried and failed to reconciled Sotomayor’s statements, such as “I would hope that a wise Latina [...]

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Quinnipiac: Majority of Americans Oppose Racial Preferences

June 8, 2009

According to a poll conducted by Quinnipiac University, 55 percent say “affirmative action” should be history, and 71 percent disagree with Sonia Sotomayor’s opinion in Ricci v. DeStefano. A majority of Americans (70 percent) aren’t buying the “diversity” argument for preferences in government hiring. Apparently, those folks aren’t in decision-making positions in government entities, where [...]

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Victor Davis Hanson on Race and Resentment

June 8, 2009

At National Review’s The Corner blog, Victor David Hanson writes about a phenomenon most of us probably have experienced. “Beneficiaries” of racial preferences, those whose race was a factor in their admissions to colleges and universities, complain when others stigmatize them because race was a factor in their admissions. Hanson writes: “So Michelle Obama describes [...]

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Newsflash: Majority of Blacks Support Preferential Treatment

June 3, 2009

The Pew Research Institute released a survey last month that revealed 58 percent of blacks agree that minorities should receive preferential treatment. Not a surprise. Only 22 percent of whites agree. Among Democrats, 45 percent agree that minorities should receive preferential treatment, in contrast to only 13 percent of Republicans. Twenty-eight percent of independents agree. [...]

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Victor Davis Hanson on the Absurdity of Racial Preferences

June 3, 2009

“One of the unexpected results of the Sotomayor nomination is a refocusing on the politics of racial identity and the fossilized institutions of affirmative action-or the belief that the U.S. government should use its vast power to ensure an equality of result rather than a fairness of opportunity.” (Source) So begins an excellent op-ed by [...]

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Rod Paige on Closing the Academic Achievement Gap

June 1, 2009

Rod Paige, George Bush’s former secretary of education, says the academic achievement gap between the races must be closed. How does he proposed to do that? (Source) Paige has some interesting things to say. For instance, he said racial discrimination and injustice are “now episodic and much less of a barrier to success,” to which [...]

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