Will White Students be denied entrance to College Admissions Office
If you are a white student walking into a Michigan college admissions office, you have to be wondering whether you are going to be admitted based on your grades or denied because of your ethnicity. This may soon become the reality for a countless number of white college students across the wolverine state, or America if the U.S. Supreme Court rules to invalidate state voters that voted against using race to determine college admittance in 2006.
Of course racial discrimination is unfair, repugnant and dangerous to the social viability of a nation when it is used to deny the rights of its citizens. The problem which voters in Michigan thought had been corrected was to toss out race-conscious affirmative action admission plans with a fairer race-neutral approach.
At the core of the case is the notion that fifty-eight percent of Michigan voters were seriously in error in amending the Michigan constitution to prohibit discrimination in admission to state colleges on the basis of national origin, sex, race or ethnicity.
To most voters in Michigan this seemed like a relative no-brainer. How could anyone oppose not using discriminatory practices to deny a prospective student entry to college?
It seems that the liberals and race baiters who thrive on erecting barriers to race neutrality and color blind solutions wanted a different result. Instead of desiring to work to determine real solutions to any potential problems minorities might be experiencing in matriculating from high school to college admittance, they took the more convenient route to cry racism!
This approach taken by the civil rights organizations in the state and nationally have determined without much effort, to use a formula that strips sanity from the law and replaces it with fear and racist scare tactics. The goal is to scare the judicial community and moderates who are lukewarm on everything, to abandon common sense and support a fraud which has no foundation in law or on recent facts.
Where is the proof that there is continued discrimination against minorities since the voters in Michigan decided that reverse discrimination is unjustified and beneath the dignity of a state that wants equal treatment for all of its citizens? What about a state’s sovereignty under the 10th Amendment, where the state and its citizens have a right to determine its own course in order to balance justice and equality under the law?
Another key question of law which the court must grapple with is whether or not a state amendment that bars discrimination in its constitution can be found to be unconstitutional because it does not allow discriminatory practices and remedies.
Are you confused now?
You should be, because in effect, what the advocates of affirmative action are arguing is that the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment should allow a state to openly and intentionally discriminate against a race or ethnic group as a means to remedy previous discriminatory practices.
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Affirmative action has been a disaster from the word go ! It's nothing but another thing the liberals put into place to get votes and feel good about their racist selves. It's a lie ! It does a huge diservice to it's suppose to help. Look at BHO ? He was givin everything. He went to Columbia University, Harvard Law School both top notch Ivy League schools. He was cuddled all the way through them if you do your homework. Anyone who really remembers the fake in chief will tell you he was a dud ! A big mouth smooth talking low grade dud. But we got our first affirmative Action POTUS. Look what it got us ! The same thing that affirmative Action allways does. A have too hire to appease a quota system.
IF you ever worked in recruitment, you would know affirmative action needs to go.
It has NOTHING to do with hiring the best for the job, it has everything to do with 'quotas'.
Regarding college admission: why would one work to achieve only to be told too bad -- you aren't good enough.
Admissions is not about educating the BEST but all about 'quotas'.
Admission and hiring should be color blind.
Logic and law seldom have much in common.
This issue almost rises to the level of being a conundrum: a problem with no apparent satisfactory conclusion; but not quite ... the solution will require good will on the part of all players but there is a solution: combine merit, ie, academic excellence; community involvement & service; and financial need. Gender and racial make up should have no impact on deciding who gets into a school. But I don't believe for a second that those who profit from the 'race wars' of their own making are people of good will and are at all willing to compromise.
I go one step further: freshman class size should be progressively reduced so that only the top five-percent of high school graduates in any state can get into any state school ... private schools should be able to do as they choose. There are far too many people in college chasing degrees that (1) aren't marketable (2) encumber them crushing student debt that will eventually become taxpayer debt when they default and (3) delays their entry to adult status by several years and further encourages government dependency.
What the nation really needs is technically qualified workers and for this purpose junior or community colleges are the appropriate instrument ...
The courts will rule on the race & 'affirmative action' issue narrowly but what we really need is a total revamping of the post-secondary education system from the ground up.
Admission should be based only on merit!!!!!
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