'Conservatives insist I took the spot of a more well-deserving white kid, while liberals expect me to spend my life on a bended knee out of gratitude for all they gave me. I reject what both camps are peddling,' writes RubenNavarrette
, SCOTUS split the baby. It found that outright racial or ethnic quotas for applicants were unlawful, while also permitting colleges and universities to take race and ethnicity into account as long as it was just one factor among several.was decided, I was just 11 years old. But my father was 37, and a third of the way into a law enforcement career that would last more than three decades.
My parents’ generation suffered real and overt discrimination, and so it made sense for affirmative action to give them a leg up. But it makes less sense to transfer that privilege to my children, who were raised in a wealthy suburb by parents with master’s degrees., roughly 62 percent of Americans supported affirmative action programs for people of color. But according to the analytics firm that conducted the poll, respondents might have been thinking about affirmative action in employment.
Next, I see the absurdity in the claim that white Americans and Asian-Americans are being systematically discriminated against in a manner akin to how Dixiecrat Gov. Ross Barnett tried to prevent a Black student named James Meredith from enrolling at the University of Mississippi in 1961—the same year affirmative action was born. Meredith was thought by the racists of that era to be inferior.
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