| "How can you not take race and ethnicity as a factor at all when you make a class. "
'Cause the voters of Michigan passed a law against doing so? Because MLK said that we should judge people only by the content of their character? Because skin color should be irrelevant to whether you are the best qualified applicant for a spot?
This whole thing is clearly just an end run against the law, which the Mich. administration didn't support in the 1st place.
In civil rights law, when the law forbids express discrimination, its also forbidding to use other criteria that are proxies for race or have a discriminatory effect - for example, say you're not hiring by race but by geography and redline those areas that happen to be predominantly minority. So I'm betting these end runs around the law won't withstand legal challenge either, or they wouldn't if we didn't have double standards on race. |