Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) took to the floor of his chamber Thursday to denounce Scalia’s comments about African-Americans in higher education.
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“Thousands of black Americans have excelled in top tier universities”.
“Just because someone may not have had as high a grade as the school’s average, that isn’t indicative of how successful they can be as a student [or] in their future profession”, she said.
If the argument was whether blacks should be admitted to the school at all, clearly, Antonin Scalia’s remarks would be extremely troubling.
Abigail Fisher has been whining about not being admitted into University of Texas for nearly a decade.
Proponents of the mismatch theory, however, don’t think that they are wrong, so if they think the mismatch theory is relevant for black students, then it has to be relevant for white students such as Fisher.
Heriot, a University of San Diego law professor, blamed race-conscious policies for producing “unmarketable communications majors”, “underwater basket-weaving majors” and “grievance studies majors”.
For decades, universities have used affirmative action to promote diversity in student bodies and to ensure that minority students receive the same opportunities that white students receive.
The original judgment was in the favor of the University of Texas, which automatically admits all applying high school seniors who finish in the top 10% of their graduating class. Traveling to the Supreme Court initially in 2013, Fisher v University of Texas at Austin (UT) was returned to a federal appeals court with the task of determining whether the policy in use at UT was “narrow” versus the type of policy ruled “unconstitutional” by SCOTUS utilized by the University of MI in its undergraduate admissions.
Lewis said he was “shocked and amazed” by Scalia’s comments, adding, “his suggestion that African-Americans would fare better at schools that are “less advanced” or on a “slow-track” remind me of the kind of prejudice that led to separate and unequal school systems”.
A US Supreme Court judge, overseeing the case of a white student complaining she lost her place to black students, has suggested African American students do better at less challenging universities.
Fisher appealed to the Supreme Court, which sent the case back to the 5th Circuit appellate court for further fact-finding. Why do so many black students want to go to selective schools?
The the U.S. Supreme Court declared affirmative action constitutional but invalidated the use of racial quotas. But UT is gathering support from more than just the Internet.
It turns out that affirmative action may be an important ingredient for the future of the STEM field. ThinkProgress and Salon both did so Wednesday in pieces that explicitly defended affirmative action, as did Vox in a more “neutral” piece.
Gloria J. Browne-Marshall is an associate professor of constitutional law at John Jay College (CUNY).
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“We reject the premise that the presence of minority students and the existence of diversity need to be justified, but meanwhile segregation in physics is tacitly accepted as normal or good”, the scientists wrote.
