White Chick Abigail Fisher-1, Affirmative Action Race Pedalers-0 by ROS on June 24, 2013
will preface this by stating up front that I am a Triple Threat, categorically speaking, in that I belong to three groups against whom discrimination has historically been levied: indigenous, “handicapped” because I was born with a few less pieces than most others, and female.
And Affirmative Action is crap.
The Supreme Court agrees with me, according to its ruling in the case of student Abigail Fisher v University of Texas.
To summarize, Miss Fisher graduated just outside the top tenth of her graduating class, but was denied entry based on a law enacted by former Texas Governor George Bush that automatically pushes through the top tenth, regardless of grade point average and/or extra-curricular activities. This grants acceptance to those in lower performing schools, especially those that are predominantly comprised of minorities. When eight in ten new admissions of minorities are automatic, the admissions process should be reevaluated, methinks.
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