The Cycle | October 12, 2012
Toure's American dream
With the Supreme Court hearing the case of Abigail Fisher, thus calling into question affirmative action in the U.S., Toure wonders where is the fairness and justice and why Americans should be worried about the outcome of this decision.
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>>> america is supposed to be about fairness and justice but right now those traits are at risk of dying off. right now the supreme court is mulling over the future of affirmative action in the case of fisher v. texas where a white woman named abigail fisher who didn't get into ut sued because she felt she didn't get in because of race. she has lost at three levels of the justice system but it appears likely the supremes will take her side. this i think will deeply damage america . i know i would not be here today without passing through a series of skooltion and businesses that knew diversity is valuable. it's not that they admitted when when she shouldn't have. a recent study sate blacks and whites with identical resumes out to apply for jobs, blacks got job aurs haoffers half as often. in the fisher hearinging chef justice roberts repeatedly asked when will we know we've reached critical mass ? this sounds to me like asking when is enough diversity. he's taking a short deal when the long view is required. the median wealth of white households is 206 times that of black house holds. the federal housing administration loaned millions to help homeowners become homeowners. 98% of that money went to white families. in a nation where your finances are based on owning a home, you see how if your grandparents owned a home, you are more likely to own one and if they didn't, you aren't. and thus the racial preferences that work in that government program help create the vast racial divide that we have now which affirmative action is trying to blunt. the same dynamic is at work in legacy admissions which are a form of affirmative action for people whose parents attended that university which functions as affirmative action for white people . george bush had no statistical business getting into yale and harvard business school but he did because of legacy admissions , aka affirmative action for whites. there are lots of cases like his. harvard accepts 40% of legacy applicants and there you see how racial references still have a powf powerful impact of today. america is supposed to be about fairness and just at this but it's also been about discrimination and racial preferences. so say let's be color blind now, is to be blind and to sentence a large segment of america to remain cut off from the american drek and that's not the way this great nation is supposed to