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here's the rub: the most basic laws of this country (i.e. the constitution) are aimed to make all people, under the law, equal. Once this reality was reached after reconstruction, the repealing of Jim Crow laws and the Civil Rights Acts, it becomes the responsibility of those potentially affected by aversive racism to change it. You have the right to protest, to assemble and the right to press: use it.

We'll never be able to eliminate racial preconceptions; we can make things better though. Affirmative action, however, is a racial classification in the ilk of Jim Crow laws which gives preference to people of a certain race (or sex). Giving preference to certain types of people for the sake of diversity is a parallel argument used in the South: giving preference to whites for the sake of preserving white superiority. It contains preference for a certain group for a greater good--it didn't work and was immoral back then, what makes it better now? the word diversity?

Diversity is only a word, affirmative action gives it no backing. Test out this really simple social experiment. Go to a white person's facebook page and look at their pictures. Youre bound to see a mass of white people. Go to a black persons facebook page and look at their pictures. You're bound to see a mass of black people. Affirmative actions allows for more black, women and latino lawyers but it DOESN'T reduce the racial divide in this country. In fact it widens it.

The Pittsburgh school system has an enriched gifted school program once a week for children with IQ's over 130. The United States Congress mandated that black children be considered gifted if they have an IQ over 110, which is average not gifted. The black children felt increasing rage because of their inability to understand the curricula. Some of the white children came very close to starting a race riot by making the most vicious of ethnic slurs. The Principal, who was black, understood so little about gifted children that he wrote me up for not standing over them spoon-feeding the kids. A black teacher at lunch, when she heard about this, uttered "I hate being a teacher!"

"The road to hell is paved with good intentions."

""I don't understand why race is [only] talked about in terms of preference in the admissions process when athletes and those who have legacy status are given extra consideration,” said Lishaun Francis, Chair of Students of Color in Public Policy. “An attack on race and not the other categories is just racially biased.""

Francis clearly does not understand the basic issue: the reason that discrimination based on athletic ability and legacy status is not illegal is because those groups are not identified as protected under the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Because race and (arguably) sex have a long and unique history vis-a-vis discrimination, those classes were identified as "protected" in the act, and thus, discrimination based on, among other things, race and sex is unconstitutional.

But the authors show a breathtaking shallowness and lack of knowledge on the topic of the SCOTUS when they cite justice "Susan O'Connor." Hey kids, her name is Sandra Day O'Connor.

Comments highlighting cultural factors contributing to failure to thrive academically are spot-on: In much of the black community, studying hard and gaining knowledge is deemed "acting white" and thus, due to deeply-ingrained racism in the black community, many black youth chose hanging out on street corners, gangbanging, and other ways of 'acting black' in lieu of serious study and scholarship. Thus, the basic problem with underachievement in the black community is based primarily in the black culture itself, so very little will happen until the black community gets its collective act together. Leaders like Bill Cosby, John McWhorter, et al., have tried to point this out but have been summarily shouted-down by activists on the left and their fellow travelers. More's the pity there.

The so-called "pipeline programs" used by the university are nothing more than systems of cronyism and political patronage. That's why so many in the administration and staff are white women, and with the vigorous "pipeline programs" for faculty, white women will soon dominate the faculty as well. Therefore, what was once deemed the "old boy's club" has now become the "new girl's club." The more things change, the more they stay the same.

If affirmative action was a legitimate system for helping disadvantaged groups get ahead I'd be all for it, but historically it's simply been a racist and sexist ratchet mechanism to force white males out of education, jobs, organizations, and away from the table vis-a-vis influence and decision-making. And the pathetic state of American education stands as one dramatic example out of many that demonstrate what this disastrous, ill-advised and misguided system has produced. And that's why affirmative action needs to be completely scrapped.

If a given family is poor, doesn't that mean they are involved in this cycle of poverty, regardless of race? What is it about a poor white student and a poor black student in failing schools that makes one deserving of attending college but not the other? We might talk about the silent racism of lowered expectations affecting the black student, or (god forbid) discuss the effects of the culture within the students' peer groups, but neither of these seem to justify affirmative action. If the legal system is largely color-blind, and educational problems are cultural in origin, then isn't an entrance policy premised on the idea that blacks are disadvantaged academically simply because they are black part of the problem?

Anyhow, the affirmative action policy of U of M was defended by the school as a way to provide a diverse educational environment for all the students. The voters decided that legalized racial discrimination could not justify this goal. It is revisionary to claim that our affirmative action policy was some kind of reparation for historic injustices.

This article talks about the insularity of racial groups on campus, the so-called cafeteria table problem. Perhaps that's a problem worth looking into, but it's not clear how a few percentage points more minority students would contribute to a solution.

"Interracial conversations on race are usually had on this superficial level where whites acknowledge the history of black subjugation and oppression and it's legacy but only want to offer lip service,” said University graduate student Ciera Burnett, who is black. “Any policy or initiative that remedies this will involve some form of redistribution, whether in taxes or preference.'"

I am a 22 year old white male. I know of the history of black subjugation and oppression, but I have not contributed to it. Therefore, why should I be put at a disadvantage in education and employment for sins I did not commit?

That's the fundamental question that Prop 2 opponents failed to answer in 2006. Yes, many blacks in this country are at a disadvantage because of historical wrongs. But those historical wrongs were before my time, so why should I have to pay for them? Faced with the prospect of discrimination in school and work, millions of white Michigan voters went out and approved Prop 2.

The remarkable thing is that no one has attempted to answer that question. Most pro-affirmative action arguments tend to focus on proving that minorities are underrepresented in college and businesses, and that they are still suffering the long-term effects of discrimination. I don't think anyone disagrees with that. What affirmative action supporters should be doing is trying to explain to white voters why they should support a program that treats all white people as over-privileged, and will lower their odds of getting into their desired college or career.

RE: Unasked and overlooked

You're on the right track here. The other comments here are kind of shockingly presumptuous, offensive, and reactionary. Frankly, affirmative action should not be a race issue at all; it's a socioeconomic problem. The fact that this article notes that in the black community on campus there is a tense uneasiness meanwhile in the white community people are more dismissive shows the true problem with the affirmative action discussion on campus. Anyone in the black community that thinks affirmative action is "for them" in some sense doesn't truly understand the prime focus of the concept, while anyone in the white community that doesn't think it's a legitimate tool and something that should be employed (as long as it's employed properly)is short-sighted (ignorance is bliss). This discussion needs to continue but until there's a proper incarnation of affirmative action, rather than the race-based one we had before Prop. 2, the more important argument is whom we're assisting.

Until the black community in America gets it together and starts making productive, positive life choices in terms of marriage, child rearing, and k-12 education, all the affirmative action in the world isn't going to make a lick of difference. If we spent half as much energy on chastising and shaming parents in the black community into making better life choices for themselves and their children, we would have had this whole differential achievement thing taken care of decades ago.

If minorities spent the same amount of time studying as they do crying about inequalities they would be able to get into the University of Michigan without affirmative action.

Clearly the University is subverting the intention of the Michigan electorate in using other means to bring people in based on criteria other than academic achievement and these administrators should be prosecuted as criminals.

Unasked and overlooked question: who has been the biggest beneficiary of affirmative action since its inception in the 1970s? White women. Race can not legitimately be the sole face of affirmative action. Instead, this fact should be highlighted to encourage broad coalitions of minority, women, and working-class (of all colors) supporters of affirmative action policies.

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