The RACISM of Racial Preferences was Re: Gore Supports The Working Man
Michael Ejercito
(Zepp) wrote:
> On Fri, 05 Nov 1999 12:05:55 -0700, meje...@csulb.edu (Michael
> Ejercito) wrote:
>
> >In article <JIEU3.43000$YB4.9...@typ12.nn.bcandid.com>, Michael Zarlenga
> ><zarl...@conan.ids.net> wrote:
> >> :Because libertarians want us to throw away the one weapon we have to
> >> :defend ourselves against the rich and the powerful and fight them "on
> >> :a level playing field".
> >>
> >> I wonder if Zeppo, who espouses racially discriminatory
> >> policies like Affirmative Action's, can even see his own
> >> hypocrisy on matters like "level playing fields" ...
> > Not to mention his desire to disarm the oppressed workjers. If workers
> >are truly being oprressed,not only should thety have guns,but bomb-making
> >material as well.
>
> Poor Jerky. Can't beat me in a fair argument, so you have taken up,
> Billy Beck-like, whining your lies about what I've said to any ear
> that seems sympathetic to you. How sad.
>
> I've asked Zarlie several times to explain who is unfairly
> discriminated against by affirmative action. He has never done so,
> but merely runs away. I would like to hear if his objections to AA
> extend to legacy "students" like George W. Bush.
I will explain affirmative action for you,Zeppo de liar.
A hot topic in education is racial policies in colleges and
unverisities. Back in the 1960's,colleges and universities started a
system of racial quotas,to ensure that Black people would get inside
colleges and universities. The people who proposed preferential admissions
policies stated that Black people were kept behind due to racism,and that
the only way they can succeed is through these preferential admissions
programs. A few civil rights activists,including John H. Bunzel,Morris
Abram,and Baytard Rustin,criticized these preferential policies (1).
It turns out they were right. In the University of Massachussetts in
1986,a group of White students beat up a Black student. A well-known
college guide quotes a Tufts University student as saying,"Many of my
friends wouldn't care if they never saw a black person again in their
lives." a dean at Middlebury College in Vermont was asked by White
students not to assign them Black room mates. (2) Now of course this
racism is not new,but what is new is "the frequency,the places,and the
class of peopleinvolved in an escalation of overt racial hostility among
middle-class young people,on predominantly liberal or radical campuses".
(3) But then,how are racial preferential policies the cause of this?
It is clear that the lower median income of Black people and certain
other minorities are the reason for their relatively low proportion in
college admissions in the past. After the GI Bill was passed,there was a
64% increase of non-White students attending post-secondary educations.
(4) This shows racial preferential policies are not necessary to increase
college admissions among ethnic minorities.
Professor Clyde Summers of Yale Law School was an early critic of these
preferential policies. In 1946,Summers wrote a landmark article of racial
discrimination in labor unions. (5) In a 1969 conference on preferntial
admissions to law school,he saw the key problem in such pollcies as the
pervasive mismatching of students and instututions,because minority
students are shifted from institutions where they can succeed to
institutions where they are very likely to fail. That means the issue he
raised is the distribution of minority students,not their aggregate
numbers. Summers characterized preferential policies as an "unreal
solution to a real problem."(6)
Summers wrote,"Thus,each law school,by its preferential admission,
simply takes minority students away from other schools whose admissions
standards are further down the scale. any net gain in the total number of
minority studwents must come, if it comes at all, because those schools
whose admissions standards are at the bottom of the scale take students
whom they would not otherwise take...In sum,the policy of preferential
admission has a pervasive shifting effect, causing large numbers of
minority students to attend law schools whose normal admissions standards
they do not meet, instead of attending other law schools whose normal
standards they do meet." (7)
This shifting effect,of course,puts students in institutions where they
can not do well. In fact,they may end up getting a worse education than
they would in an institution whose normal admission standards are looser.
Minority students who are admitted below their normal admissions standards
may end up "confused,floundering,and unable to keep up." (8) What we can
expect as a result is lower graduation rates for students admitted under
these preferential programs. Also,as Summers pointed out,preferential
treatment is the cause of the belief held by many White lawyers that
minority lawyers are substandard. (9)
Othjer people,of course,made similar predictions. In 1969,Judge Macklin
fleming wrote to Dean Louis Pollack of Yale Law School about his
apprehensions that only five ouyt of forty-three Black students that were
admitted met normal admissions requirements. He also wrote that"demands
will be made for the elimination of competitionm,reduction in standards of
performance,adoption oif ocurses which do not require intensive legal
analysis,and recognition for academic credit for sociological activities
which only have an indirect relationshiop to legal training." (10) As it
turns out,these predictions came true both in law school and the rest of
the acadmeic world (11)
Racial preferences have caused minorioty students to fail. For
example,in the Massachussetts Institute of Technology,the average Black
student scored at the bottom ten percent at MIT. Nearly a fourth of these
students failed to graduate,and those whpo did had significantly lower
grades than their classmates. (12) The Wall Street Journal reported "a
widespread if rarely stated proposition that black students somehow lack
what it takes to make the grade." (13) At the University of Texas,the
graduation rate of Blsck people is half of those of White people. (14) In
San Jose State University,seventy percent of Black students fail to
graduate. (15) Nationwide,Black students' graduation rates is about half
of those of White students. (16) But when we look at minority students
admitted under normal admissions standards,we see that the grasduation
rates differ little among ethnic groups. In UC Berkeley, more than half of
all Hispanics admitted under normal admissions standards graduated. (17)
And yet some people just do not get it. Administrators instityuted what
David Reisman of Harvard calls "affirmative grading" (18) Affirmative
grading comes from professors unwilling to flunk miniority sdtudents or
the intervention of minority affairs officials on college campuses to
pressure professors into passing otherwise failing minority students. A
Black Student in Stanford gave examples of extreme exceptions that faculty
memners would make for Black students (19) As a result of double
standards,racial tensions have arisen on college campuses. Highly
qualified minority students may lose because employers may be skeptical
about their grades as to whether ity was earned by preferential grading.
Of course,now we also see double standards in campus behavior according
to race. For example,there was an incident where two Jewish female
students were recruiting for the Jewish Student Union when they were
harrassed by members of the Black Muslim Union with anti-Jewish remarks.
The Student Conduct Office told them to develop "thicker skins" (20) By
contrast,when White students makle remarks that do not even mention any
ethnic groups,they can be labeled racist. A White woman at the University
of Pennsylvania expressed her "deep regard for the individual and to
protect the freedoms of all members of society",she was chided by an
administrator who said the word INDIVUDUAL is construed by many to be
RACIST. (21)Excuse me,but only a fucking dumbass leftist loon would
believe that kind of bullshit. And to think they make excuses for
Kennemur's racial slurs. It's fucking amazing isn't it? Here we have
leftist loons clasiming that all Whites are racist,and yet they refuse to
deal with Jim Kennemur's racism. Incidentially,one of the people Kennemur
called a "nigger" was Thomas Sowell,who wrote one of the books used as a
source for this article.
Defendwers of racial preferences blamne former U.S. President Ronald
Reagan for these outbursts of racism. professors like Troy Duster of
Berkeley blamed the conservative era of the 1980's which he claimed Reagan
made racism legitimate. (22) and yet,as it turns pout,predominantly
conservative campuses have much less racial tension. Pepperdine University
has a higher percentage of non-Whiote students than the University of
Massachussetts,even though U. Mass. made the headlines of racial
violence.(23) The conservative University of Oklahoma which has a
predomionantly White student body elected a Black woman student body
president by a majority vote. (24)
In conclusion,I would like to point out that racial preferences in
college admissions is wrong and inherently racist. Defnders of
preferential policies claim that other preferences such as alumni and
veterans' preferences exist,but two wrongs do not make a right. And in the
case of preferential treatment for veterans,academic admissions standards
were not lowered for them. Furhtermore,preferential treatment hurts
minority students who are admitted under lower admissions standards
because they can not make it in the institutions they were admitted in.
This shows that leftist loons are pure evil.
1. Sowell,Thomas Inside American Education (The Free Press),1993 p. 135
2. Ibid p. 132
3. Ibid p. 133
4. U.S Bureau of the Census,Historical Statistics of the United
States:Colonial times to 1970 (Washington,DC U.S. Government Printing
Office,1875) Part 1 p.380
5. Clyde W. Summers "Admissions Policies of Labor Unions" Quartlerly
Journal of Economics,November 1946,pp.66-107
6. Clyde W. Summers, "Preferential Admissions: An Unreal Solution to a
Real Problem," University of Toledo Law Review,Spring/Summer 1970, p. 377
7. Ibid p. 384
8. Ibid p. 393
9. Ibid p. 397
10. Macklin Fleming and Louis Pollack,"an Exchange of Letters: The Black
Quota at Yale Law School" The Public Interest,Spring 1970, p. 46
11. Sowell,Thomas Inside American Education (The Free Press),1993, p. 139
12. Arthur Hu, "Minorities Need More Support" The Tech (M.I.T.) March
7,1987, p.8
13. Janice C. Simpson, "Black Students Are Viewed As Victims of Subtle
Racism," Wall Street Journal, April 3,1987
14. Steven Mays,"Racism in University Admissions," Texas Review,March 1989, p. 6
15. Shelby Steele, The Contenet of Our Character: A New Vision of Race in
America (New York: St. Martin's Press,1990) p. 138
16. Oscar F. Porter, Undergraduate Completion and Persistence at four-Year
colleges and Universities: Detailed Findings (Washington,DC: National
Institute of Independent Colleges anbd Universities,1990) p. 13
17. Dinesh D' Souza,"Sins of Admissions," New Republic,February 18,1991, p. 33
18. David Reisman,On Highwer Education: The Academic Expertise in an Era
of Rising Student Consumerism (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass
Publishers,1980), pp. 80-81
19. John H. Bunzel,Race Relations On Campus: Stnaofrd Students Speak
(Stanford:Stanford Alumni Association,1992) pp.91-92
20.Charles Hoirner,Patty Pott,and Steven B. Loux,editors, The common-Sense
Guide to American Colleges 1991-1992 (Washington,DC: The Madison Center
for Educational Affairs,1991) pp. 63-64
21. Dinesh D'Souza Illiberal Education, pp. 9-10
22. Charles S. Farrell,"Black Students Seen Facing New Racism On Many
Campuses," The chronicle of Higher Education (Alabany: State University of
New York Press, 1991) p. 7
23. "1998 Enrollment by Race at 3,100 Institutions of Higher Education,"
The Chronicle of Higher Education,April 11,1990 pp. A38-A46
24. "Winers and Losers" Campus Report for Accuracy in Academia, April 1987, p.6
Michael
Q: How do you separate the men from the boys in the National Alliance?
A: Use a crowbar.