If race-based admission violates the American constitution, so also is LEGACY admission that favors the majority of Caucasians. Almost half of admitted students to Columbia University (an IVY league school) are legacy admission (meaning, someone in their lineage had attended the school - father, mother, aunt, uncle, grandfather, etc....). What is good for the GOOSE is good for the GANDER......otherwise, the decision yesterday by the US Supreme Court comes short of being racist. It is going to perpetuate exactly what they claim they want to stem out....They are creating space for "white kids" whose generation has dominated admission to top schools in America and preclude those who the system has deliberately deprived of opportunities for centuries from enjoying the benefits of going to the same top schools or going to school at all.
Perhaps, the SCOTUS should also abolish Minority Serving Institutions on the same premise they scrapped Affirmative Action - America in 2023 is COLORBLIND where everyone has equal access to opportunity, right?
If anyone argues that going to IVY league does not make a difference, I will ask them to look at the credentials of the last six US presidents and determine where they went to school. The people that shape the future of this country are the top-educated people who went to elite schools. Look at the SCOTUS, how many of them went to less-known schools - it is a cult. If you are moderately poor, you cannot afford to send your wards to these schools even if they qualify. And without anyone from your family ever attending the school before, you are done before you start. There is a history of discrimination against minorities in America for centuries which still persists today. Minorities who make it to top schools experience significant racism despite being top performers before being admitted. Now, closing the doors of these schools to them and leaving the process to BLIND merit (that often allow discrimination will set America back a century) is a disservice. Many minorities who scaled these schools are the voice in the position of power for many like them. Barack Obama would probably never have become the president of the US if he did not go to Harvard. Barack mostly likely got admitted to Harvard because of Affirmative Action, but now it is gone.
Most top schools have an admission rate of < 5%. The chance of a minority is slim in a process that does not give them an edge. Affirmative Action was supposed to open the door of top schools (or any school at all) to QUALIFIED minorities not to admit them because they are minorities. Schools admission are supposed to reflect the demographics of the people they are....
Communism died, and capitalism survived. Capitalism is a supposed system that allows freeness in an economy - market forces in the hands of private owners control what happens to the economy with minimal influence by the state. Capitalism has produced enormous wealth in the West. There are so many millionaires and billionaires. The question is, what is the ratio of the stupendously rich and those who are just scraping by - living from pay check-to-pay check? The gap is huge between the rich and the poor in most capitalist states. When President Trump was going to deliver his tax reform, it favored the rich with about 80% of the tax benefits going to the top 1% richest people in America. The argument was that they create jobs, they should benefit more - money is being given to those who really do not need the extra cash but those who need it the most, aids is been taken away from people who are at the bottom of the ladder because of a few who lie on their social welfare claims. I h...
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