Diversity

In last week’s Wake County, Part 100, I linked to a Washington Post article that framed the Wake County school board’s decision to end busing as a “tea party” issue. Color me a bright shade of shocked that Newsweek, of all publications, casts doubts on the claimed tea party connection, calling it “tenuous.” But was [...]

I think my view on the Wake County, North Carolina, busing controversy is well known. I find it embarrassing, and sad, that liberals, particularly black liberals, publicly claim that it’s “racist” for parents to want to send their children to schools closest to their homes, even if their choices result in less racial diversity across [...]

A couple weeks ago, I blogged about Wesleyan University’s Cardinal Conservatives club holding an anti-preferences bake sale to illustrate the unfairness and offensiveness of racial preferences in admissions and hiring. John Rosenberg, who hosts Discriminations, wrote about bake sales at Minding the Campus (emphasis added): For some reason liberals — a shorthand here for university [...]

Remember last year’s “controversial” racial preferences bake sale at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania? A conservative student group demonstrated the unfair and demeaning nature of lowering standards of admission based on race. The dean shut down the demonstration on a technicality, citing a discrepancy between prices at the time of application and at the time of [...]