<p>Aleandre…I agree 100%. Because a phenomena is wide spread and systemic doesn’t make it ethical though, nor in my opinion, legal. Look, anyone that follows my posts knows I share much of the same passion for U-Florida that you do for Michigan, but iI suspect UF had the same racial practice and am willing to call them out in it too. Here are some quites I find interesting.</p>
<p>[Race</a> Preference in College Admissions](<a href=“http://www.heritage.org/Research/Education/HL611.cfm]Race”>http://www.heritage.org/Research/Education/HL611.cfm)</p>
<p>In his Brief in the case of Brown v. Board of Education, Thurgood Marshall, then executive director of the Legal Defense Fund of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, wrote in 1954:</p>
<p>“Distinctions by race are so evil, so arbitrary and invidious that a state, bound to defend the equal protection of the laws must not invoke them in any public sphere.”</p>
<p>“Justice Marshall long ago made it clear that the plain words of federal law proscribe racial discrimination…against whites on the same terms as racial discrimination against non-whites.”</p>
<p>And race preferences fly in the face of the Equal Protection Clause. Justice Powell, in Bakke, put this eloquently:</p>
<pre><code>“The guarantee of equal protection cannot mean one thing when applied to one individual and something else when applied to a person of another color. If both are not accorded the same protection, then it is not equal.”
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<p>Justice Powell, in Bakke, very specifically addressed this “racial balance” defense of admissions preference; he wrote that such a purpose is “facially invalid,” invalid on its face! He concludes:</p>
<pre><code>“Preferring members of any one group for no reason other than race or ethnic origin is discrimination for its own sake. This the Constitution forbids.”
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