Asian-Americans are identifying themselves as white on college admissions forms to circumvent Affirmative Action programs. Liberal math: a 1997 study found that Asian-Americans needed a 1550 SAT to have the same chance of getting into an elite college as white students with a 1410 or black students with an 1100. Something to chew on the next time the idiots in the media tell us someone is a genius because they went to Harvard.
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Don['t put race on anything. No pictures, maybe even redacted names. Only look at the students record of activities, test scores and grades. Everyone on a level playing field. THAT is true equality. If no race identifiers are used, then no discrimination is possible.
But then only the truly qualified will get in and affirmative action will be just another jumble of letters!
Honest to God, on any number of job applications, I've been sore tempted to tick the "Race" box for something other than "White/Don't Bother." I kid you not, when I got out of law school, I spent months patrolling the Mass. state job boards for a lawyer job with the state: more than half of them -depending on the department- instructions would be to send your resume and application not to the "Human Resources Manager" or such, but rather to their "Office of Diversity Implementation."
" I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character . "
This must not apply to test scores . This must not apply to white people , asian people or any other. When admission standards are race based , it must point to a deeper truth about ability or character, otherwise we would be " judged by the content of their character " and that would be the end of it.
But its not . Something a bit deeper perhaps ?