“The only difference between the ideas endorsed by Trump and Scalia is that Scalia has a robe and a lifetime appointment”, Reid said.
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Rep. G.K. Butterfield (D-N.C.), who chairs the Black Caucus, said Scalia’s comments were “disgusting, inaccurate and insulting to African Americans”.
“Your underlying claim”, he told Gregory Garre, a lawyer for the university, “is that there is something deficient about the top-10 admittees”.
“It’s so heartening to see Scalia, a Supreme Court justice, think so negatively of a whole race of people”, Jillian Kushner, a University of Texas at Austin senior, said. Let us know in the comments section below.
As a black woman who has managed to earn four higher education degrees (one from an Ivy League university) without my head exploding from the exertion, I have trouble seeing Scalia’s view as anything other than poorly reasoned drivel based on bare-faced racial stereotypes.
Fisher argues the 14th Amendment’s the Equal Protection Clause prohibits the school from considering race in any manner as part of the admissions process.
For the remaining students, the plan takes account of race as one factor among many, the approach used by many selective colleges and universities nationwide.
Scalia said African American students might be better off in a “slower-track school” rather than more competitive universities.
Justice Antonin Scalia suggested that admitting students through holistic review might do them a disservice, and that African-American students who are not in the top 10 percent of their high school might benefit from attending a “slower-track school” as opposed to the state flagship.
“One of the briefs pointed out that most of the black scientists in this country don’t come from schools like the University of Texas”, Scalia said during arguments in a case about affirmative action.
“It’s just vital to allow universities to select the students that they think together will make the most educationally interesting class for all the students who are there”, Sims said.
It was not clear which students Scalia was referring to. The brief argued that affirmative action discourages beneficiaries from pursuing science and engineering degrees. The Justice said he was “just not impressed” by arguments that UT Austin suffers from low minority enrollment, The Huffington Post reported. He said that the getting rid of a racial factor in college admissions would cause diversity in universities to “plummet”. Maybe it ought to have fewer (black students)…
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia jokes about his experiences as a law student at a program with fellow Justice Elena Kagan, Monday, Dec. 15, 2014 at the University of Mississippi.
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Stuart Taylor, the co-author of Mismatch: How Affirmative Action Hurts Students It’s Intended to Help, and Why Universities Won’t Admit It, relied on this theory during a debate on affirmative action hosted by Intelligence Squared last week.
