Government Sponsored Racism
Should a white person be given preference to college admissions because he is white? Of course not. That’s racist. So why are admission preferences given to any specific race? In the 2003 case Grutter v. Bollinger, the Supreme Court ruled that race could play a role in admissions policies of universities that receive federal money (even if only in the form of aid to students). This “positive discrimination”, known as affirmative action, attempts to compensate for historical racial discrimination by giving minority applicants a “leg up”. But these policies are currently being challenged by a case before the Supreme...
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