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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At bottom, Justice O'Connor's rationale for affirmative action was that leaders come from elite institutions and more minorities need to attend elite institutions.  So a bump up for a kid qualified for Wayne State or Michigan State based on grades and scores but not Michigan will get him or her into Michigan.  It's a very snobby, elitist perspective.  If your nonURM kid's ox is being gored by that displacement, you won't like it.  But if your nonURM kid stil gets in, you'll profess not to care and talk up the virtues of diversity.  Taking a public position against affirmative action is socially very very risky.[/quote]

URMs are still pretty under-represented at Michigan.  https://admissions.umich.edu/apply/freshmen-applicants/student-profile

The real bottom line is that Trump's DOJ is trying to pick a fight that more higher income whites will join.

If he really wanted to do something about access to education for his base, he'd look at public education funding at state and local levels.  Someone posted a map of Republican-led states the other day.  I think if you overlaid it with a map of academic achievement, it would be easy to conclude Republicans prefer to keep their constituents dumb and poor.  I wonder why.  I think in Kansas they've even decided that four days/week is enough.  http://www.ruraledu.org/articles.php?id=3297

You can't get into college if your education has been subpar since kindergarten.[/quote]

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