We’ve blogged about the U.S. Naval Academy lowering its standards for minorities a few times. In a “diversity” outreach effort, the school practices two-tiered admissions, assessing black applicants under a separate and lower standard than other applicants. Professor Bruce Fleming, a professor at the Academy, publicly exposed this practice.
Walter Williams, author of such books as More Liberty Means Less Government: Our Founders Knew This Well and Liberty versus the Tyranny of Socialism: Controversial Essays, goes further by revealing that the Naval Academy offers remedial help for black applicants. But it’s worse than it sounds:
“Many black students are admitted to the Naval Academy through remedial training at the Naval Academy Preparatory School (NAPS) in Newport, R.I., which is a one-year post-secondary school. Finishing the year with a 2.0 GPA, a C average, almost guarantees admission to the academy. A C average for remedial work is nothing to write home about. Occasionally, when students don’t make the 2.0 GPA target, the target is renegotiated downward. Minority applicants with SAT scores down to the 300s and with Cs and Ds grades (and no particular leadership or athletics) are also admitted after a remedial year at the Naval Academy Preparatory School.
“Bruce Fleming, an English professor at the academy for 22 years, teaches a remedial English class and finds that in his spring 2009 class, most of NAPS’s students earn Cs and Ds and many are on probation. About seven years ago Professor Fleming was on the admissions board, where the standing instruction is not to write anything down because ‘everything is ‘FOI’able’ — meaning it can be demanded under the Freedom of Information Act. Such an instruction highlights the dishonesty of race preferences. The dishonesty doesn’t stop there. The academy will go to great lengths to retain black students. When Professor Fleming charged a black student with plagiarism, he was not properly informed of the hearing and subsequently the student’s peer group found him not guilty. Honor violations by black students are usually ‘remediated.’”
Naturally, such practices stigmatize all black students, even those admitted based on grades and scores and not skin color. But that’s the reality of lowered standards. Unless one wears a sign around his neck that lists his grades and scores, he will be considered an “affirmative action” admittee if he’s black.
So much for racial progress, eh?
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