Question about race and admissions

Newjack88
Sun, 16 Mar 2008 01:40:02 +0000

I think I’m done here.

fabrizio:
At the end of the day it comes down to this: I value racial diversity; you think it’s meaningless.

k&s:
We got lost somewhere in our discussion of socio-economic based Affirmative Action. If your ultimate goal is to promote racial diversity on college campuses, then socio-economic based AA is probably the worst means to achieve that goal. Think about it, if it were the best means to produce racially diverse student bodies, don’t you think colleges would have been using it by now?



The point remains about the Seattle school district. As Chief Justice Roberts wrote, racial balancing does not go from “patently un-Constitutional” to “compelling state interest” simply by renaming it racial diversity. Keep that in mind.

I urge you to at least look up the Wikipedia article about this case. If you really understand the logic behind the court’s decision, then you will see that it would be very difficult to use this case as a precedent in an Affirmative Action college admissions case.