Diversity

UNC Files Memo in Wake County Reassignment Case

April 13, 2011

What is it about majority-black schools that terrifies “civil rights” groups like the NAACP? Food for thought… To recap the “controversy” in Wake County, North Carolina, the school board approved a plan to stop busing children to schools outside their neighborhoods for “diversity” and to allow parents to send them to schools closer to home. [...]

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Walter Williams: Diversity Perversity

April 8, 2011

What a title! In his latest column, Walter Williams points out the inconsistency, selectivity, and double standard of the diversity/proportional representation position. An excerpt: “Part of looking like America means if blacks are 13 percent of the population, they should be 13 percent of college students and professors, corporate managers and government employees. Behind this [...]

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Bake Sale at George Washington U

March 29, 2011

I think “affirmative action bake sales” are one of the best ways to demonstrate the unfairness and offensiveness of racial preferences. The bake sales are peaceful (usually), and they elegantly illustrate the point. Young America Foundation (YAF) sponsored a bake sale demonstration held yesterday at the private George Washington University. An excerpt from WTOP: The [...]

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Rachel Alexander on Obama-Era “Affirmative Action”

March 16, 2011

Rachel Alexander, a great lady I used to write for at Intellectual Conservative many moons ago, penned an article about the president’s dedication to racial preferences in government. No doubt thinking about his own privileged upbringing, he went on record to say his daughters “should probably” be treated by admissions officers as the advantaged applicants [...]

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Simple Words, Clear Intent

March 9, 2011

A student at the University of Colorado sees the startling incongruity between what the law says about racial discrimination and what the government does. After citing John F. Kennedy’s Executive Order 10925, and writes: “According to that order, ‘The contractor will not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, creed, color, [...]

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Roger Clegg: 50 Years of ‘Affirmative Action’

March 8, 2011

The Center for Equal Opportunity’s Roger Clegg wrote an article for the Washington Times about “affirmative action,” how the term came into being, what it meant at the time, and how it’s practiced today. On March 6, 1961 (50 years ago), President John F. Kennedy issued an executive order directing the government to take “affirmative [...]

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Advantaged White Male Sociologists

March 3, 2011

A study from the American Sociological Association (ASA) purports to show Minority Fellowship Program winners whose dissertation advisers were white men landed faculty jobs at research universities at a higher rate than students whose advisers were women or racial minorities. (Source) The director of the association said the upper ranks of the sociology field are [...]

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OSU Students Comment on Race-Based Admissions

March 3, 2011

Are students being evaluated on a different scale because of their race? In a word, yes. An article in UWeekly, a Ohio State University (OSU) publication, featured quotes from racial minority students who commented on the school’s use of race in admissions, in light of the Center of Equal Opportunity’s recent study that revealed OSU [...]

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CA Bar: Race Should Affect Law School Rankings

February 23, 2011

The National Law Journal reports that the State Bar of California believes U.S. News & World Report should take into account a law school’s percentage of brown faces on campus when compiling its annual list of overall law school rankings. The publication already compiles a separate diversity ranking list. A school’s quality assessment accounts for [...]

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Ohio State University Comments on Preferences Study

February 16, 2011

On Monday, I linked to and blogged about the Center for Equal Opportunity’s (CEO) recent study that showed the University of Miami and Ohio State University (OSU) admitted blacks with lower grades and scores than whites and Asians. In an interview with Roger Clegg about the study, an NBC4 reporter asked the following: “Ohio State [...]