US Supreme Court upholds Michigan ban on affirmative action

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<p>from the font of all knowledge, wiki:</p>

<p>Prop 2:

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<p>Since the passage of Prop 209 in the late 90’s prohibiting racial quotas for the UC’s, minority representation has nevertheless steadily increased. This year for the first time Latino students outnumbered white students admitted to all the UC universities. The law hasn’t seemed to hurt minority representation at the nine UC campuses. </p>

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<p>This really only sets the precedent for Public Universities.</p>

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<p>A poster-child for Sotomayor: ** Brooke Kimbrough**
<a href=“http://www.freep.com/article/20140419/COL01/304190066/mitch-albom-university-of-michigan-brooke-kimbrough”>http://www.freep.com/article/20140419/COL01/304190066/mitch-albom-university-of-michigan-brooke-kimbrough&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>That’s crazy, that isn’t anywhere NEAR the bar for admission to UofM for in-state students so somewhat silly to use this particular applicant as a poster child - she wasn’t discriminated, she simply didn’t hit the bar for acceptance like thousands of others .Her scores are barely OK for MSU with the 25th percentile ACT at MSU of 23 but she got in there. There is a difference between discrimination and disappointment as the article says. I do agree with Lergmom’s comments surrounding the legality of legislating issues such as these. In Michigan residents are also under increasing pressure by the UofM to admit more and more kids that are not from the state, while one can argue that the state isn’t contributing enough $$ to warrant favoritism for the state’s youth, I think the state and its people have some say still using some level of academic achievement as much as possible for those decreasing seats. </p>

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<p>So I guess this law means that in Michigan, public schools in white areas can no longer be superior to schools in minority areas? Laws can be confusing, can’t they?</p>

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<p>Jeez, the young Ms. Kimbrough is a screaming 17-year old! We’re not going to premise opponents’ or supporters’ arguments on the despair of a disappointed teenager whose good record wasn’t quite good enough to hit the mark, are we?</p>

<p>I thought it was silly for Ms. Gratz (the plaintiff in one of the earlier Michigan AA cases), an ADULT, to challenge this child to a debate.</p>