[Vision2020] Isn't This Racist?

[Ted Moffett]

All:

Perhaps I've missed something, but the original question by Mr. Harrell 
concerning racism has not been directly addressed.  I will not attempt to 
answer this question now, especially after following the US Supreme Court 
arguments regarding the Michigan case before the court, realizing how 
complicated this issue can become.  However, regardless of the various forms 
of prejudicial and/or unfair treatment various groups in our society are or 
have been subjected to, in both public and private institutions, the 
question Mr. Harrell asked was focused only on the possibility of racism 
when certain groups are given preferential treatment based on race in 
college admissions.

Of course whites have been given preferential treatment in college 
admissions.  Rich whites especially have their own forms of "affirmative 
action," though I'm sure the children of any rich family, brown, yellow, 
white or black, can gain admission to some colleges based on the influence 
of wealth when their admission test scores are questionable.

I wonder why there is not a law suit before the US Supreme Court to 
challenge this form of "rich kids affirmative action?!"

But the fact that this unfair conduct exists does not negate the question of 
racial minorities who gain possibly unfair advantage over white students 
seeking admission to college based on an institutional policy of 
"affirmative action."  We do have a poor white underclass that is just as 
disadvantaged in many ways as poor blacks.

In answering the original question Mr. Harrell posed, it does not matter 
what forms of discrimination, prejudice or unfair treatment occur across the 
universe in other situations, the question dealt solely with the Michigan 
case of discrimination in college admissions based on race in, if I recall 
correctly, their law school.

Ted

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