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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^^Then start your own college and you can make the rules.[/quote]

Even private colleges have to make sure they follow the law.[/quote]The law 'worked' when colleges were exclusively white.   You do know that there are non-white applicants that  are equally or more qualified in grades, scores, ECs, etc.[/quote]

Absolutely! And those individuals should be getting in on merit!   The Supreme Court actually tightened Affirmative Action laws after the reverse discrimination lawsuit against U.Texas at Austin. The Obama Administration's response was to send a letter from the Dept. of Education to college admissions departments telling them that they can essentially still discriminate re: race. Pretty uncalled-for in my opinion.

There's a reason the Constitution was amended back then, and rightfully so. However, to do the same now to (especially) Asians and Caucasians is no better.[/quote]

This is exactly where affirmative action breaks down, where there is an historically discriminated-against minority that "over performs" in academically competitive admissions.  As a result, they basically get totally read out of affirmative action programs and even discriminated against in open-competitive admissions.  No matter that many Asian families came to this country in the last few decades, some on rafts and with just the clothes on their backs.  They didn't speak English and faced (and still face discrimination) and now their academically successful kids have quotas put on them in college admissions.  At the end of the day, affirmative actions is largely a preference program for African-Americans who for various reasons seem more afflicted than other minority groups by the social pathologies that Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote about in the Sixties.  On that basis, it becomes harder and harder to justify.[/quote]

Not to me, pretty hard to overcome the vestiges of slavery and that's unique to AA in this country.  I'm a white female by the way.  BTW, pretty much every immigrant that spoke a foreign language was subject to discrimination for some period of time, and many of those immigrants were white.[/quote]

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