And for you guys who so eagerly to end AA, have you ever stopped to consider why it existed in the first place? What is the ideology behind the law? Have you ever considered that you and I directly benefit from the principle it was derived?
@兰彤 affirmative action in its current form is against the spirit of Declaration of Independence, against 14th amendment, against civil rights act of 1964, even against its original definition, period.
@兰彤 from SFFA v Harvard: "Given what is occurring at Harvard and at other schools, the proper response is the outright prohibition of racial preferences in university admissions—period." "Allowing this issue to be litigated in case after case will only “perpetuate the hostilities that proper consideration of race is designed to avoid.” ... Harvard and other academic institutions cannot and should not be trusted with the awesome and historically dangerous tool of racial classification. As in the past, they will use any leeway the Supreme Court grants them to use racial preferences in college admissions...to engage in racial stereotyping, discrimination against disfavored minorities, and quotasetting to advance their social-engineering agenda."
@ Henry Yang, I agree CA is a wonderful state. But it can not make law for other states yet. If you could, I am sure AA would have been ended long time ago.
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