The GOP’s war on racially diverse college campuses was never going to be confined to the party’s war on affirmative action.
I wonder what their final solution will be for diversity?
Black and brown people at the bottom ever subservient to a small elite of rich white cis straight men. It was never about the ‘unfairness’ of affirmative action. If it was you’ll also see them taking aim at the unfairness of legacy admissions as well. It has always been about keeping black and brown folk down and maintaining hierarchy.
Are we also getting rid of legacy admissions? Or is that advantage acceptable?
Let’s use a simple metaphor. You have a bridge. One side of the bridge is heavier than the other, so it’s not balanced. You add a counterweight to balance the bridge.
Several years later, someone says “there’s no need for this counterweight anymore, it’s just unbalancing the bridge.” If the bridge was rebuilt to address the imbalances, you’d be right. But it wasn’t rebuilt, it’s the same bridge with the same flaws it had when the counterweight was put in place. In an ideal world, we wouldn’t need affirmative action. But pretending we’re in that ideal world isn’t actually solving anything.
Final solution… I think I’ve heard that somewhere before, I wonder where… Might have been in another language, German maybe…
Seems like their final solution is to stop basing scholarships, awards, and college placement off of the color of a person’s skin or their race.
Median white household income in the U.S. - $74,262
Median black household income in the U.S. - $46,400
Maybe, possibly, black people need more help paying for college than white people?
Let me guess, that lower income is their own fault. Black people need to collectively pull themselves up by their bootstraps. I wonder if education has a part to play in that?
