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Hey all....
Hope this helps clear a few things up....
There were two cases...one was Michigan's law school and the other the undergrad. Both used different standards. Michigan law school uses a standard used by many different college admissions offices; a standard that just takes race into a factor. There is no quantifiable actual number, percentage etc. it weighs..but they have the ability to use race as a factor. THIS WAS UPHELD...AND IS A VICTORY FOR ALL WHO SUPPORT AFFIRMATIVE ACTION AND ALL BROWN V BOARD STANDS FOR...
As for the undergrad the program had a specific numerical factor attached to race... which the court found unconstitutional. The fact that they left the door open for affirmative action is a victory...
The reason why you only heard affirmative action as it pertains to race is because the case only pertained to race...they were challenging race as a factor..."is there a compelling reason to use race in admissions decisions"
many universities no longer truly use gender as a factor...
We must still encourage our children and siblings to achieve...but we have MANY years of ground to make up..so we must support affirmative action. Lets not forget that the civil rights movement was a little more than 30 years ago which means not even a full generation has truly benefited from affirmative action...lets not let them trap us into rejecting a program that is necessary for us to progress and regain the ground we were prevented from gaining.
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