In 1954, the Supreme Court ruled that separate schools based on race were not, could not, be equal.
The issue was unfair educational opportunity for Americans of African or Latin American heritage. The most famous confrontation was when the governor of Arkansas would not let a few black students enter and attend the all-white Central High. President Eisenhower sent federal troops to escort these brave souls to class. Very soon more blacks came and more whites left. Private schools were springing up in Little Rock. Today Central High is now more than 60% black and 29% white.
Several years ago, a Harvard educator named Canada, started a school in Harlem. It was mainly for black students. They wore school uniforms and had longer school years. They were separate but weren't they equal? Schools like his are starting in other parts of the country with the goal of giving black students in a black school with black teachers to address this population's special social and educational needs. The waiting list of parents wanting to enroll their children is usually quite long.
There are some excellent black universities. Are their students losing out?
This court decision led to the imposition of affirmative action programs. Students in public schools were bused to far away locations, usually affluent neighborhoods for the poor, while white students were bused into poor neighborhoods. Colleges had to set up affirmative action policies with quotas which gave applicants of a protected class much more chance of getting in. Lawsuits were filed by some white applicants and the court ruled that these programs unfairly discriminated against those in neither protected class.
This led to a new rational. Colleges weren't discriminating to comply with affirmative action, they were making their schools more diverse. Diversity became more important than school standards, grade point averages, SAT scores, study habits and potential.
Our former President, a globalist, embraced the notion of the value of diversity. He felt that everything should have a variety of people from different backgrounds, even if they're from different countries and cultures. He expanded immigration, legal, and illegal.
What about diversity in professional sports? How many Latinos, Asians or Jews are in the NFL and NBA? Are these sports harmed by not having a diverse population? Professional sports teams want to get the best athletes no matter what their cultural background.
Now Asian applicants to Harvard are suing saying that Harvard discriminates against them and for some other minorities. A study showed that a black candidate is many times more likely to get in than an Asian, though the Asian applicants had much better grades and scores.
A report that was in the Wall Street journal, and probably not in the mainstream media, reported that Asians with similar scores as blacks have a 20+% chance of being accepted while a person of African heritage has a 95%. The media rather said that Asians are only 5% of American residents but are enrolled about 20%. Here again we have quotas to justify unfair treatment. If the top Harvard 40% of applicants are Asian then they should admitted.
So what?
The result has been a decline in educational standards meaning that college grads are less educated and less prepared for a successful future. A college degree today is equal to what a high school diploma was 50 years ago. Half of all college graduates work at jobs that do not require a degree. This decline is also seen in high school education with many graduates not educated enough to go to college before taking several remedial courses to get an inferior education in college as well, since standards have been lowered.
You might ask, what's wrong with lower educational standards?
It makes a country's population that doesn't work well or think well. That leads to being less able to make intelligent consumer and political decisions. Unable to think deeply means that people will act out of emotion rather than intellect. We become driven by a herd/ heard mentality. If we hear that the group we like approves of something or someone, we do too.
The irony is that diversity is unavoidable. Some of us are smart, some are very attractive. Some are tall some are short, some are fat and some are skinny. Look at the diversity in love and career preferences. How many men are in love with the same woman, three out of 120 million American men? How many of us wanted to be a lawyer, a dentist, a heart surgeon, a philosophy professor, or a waiter, plumber, farmer, businessman, police officer, a firefighter or an airline steward? Some of us did; and we work in those fields. But the vast majority of us wouldn't think to do the other jobs or professions. Why? Because we are so diverse.
So is forced diversity needed or helpful?
The issue was unfair educational opportunity for Americans of African or Latin American heritage. The most famous confrontation was when the governor of Arkansas would not let a few black students enter and attend the all-white Central High. President Eisenhower sent federal troops to escort these brave souls to class. Very soon more blacks came and more whites left. Private schools were springing up in Little Rock. Today Central High is now more than 60% black and 29% white.
Several years ago, a Harvard educator named Canada, started a school in Harlem. It was mainly for black students. They wore school uniforms and had longer school years. They were separate but weren't they equal? Schools like his are starting in other parts of the country with the goal of giving black students in a black school with black teachers to address this population's special social and educational needs. The waiting list of parents wanting to enroll their children is usually quite long.
There are some excellent black universities. Are their students losing out?
This court decision led to the imposition of affirmative action programs. Students in public schools were bused to far away locations, usually affluent neighborhoods for the poor, while white students were bused into poor neighborhoods. Colleges had to set up affirmative action policies with quotas which gave applicants of a protected class much more chance of getting in. Lawsuits were filed by some white applicants and the court ruled that these programs unfairly discriminated against those in neither protected class.
This led to a new rational. Colleges weren't discriminating to comply with affirmative action, they were making their schools more diverse. Diversity became more important than school standards, grade point averages, SAT scores, study habits and potential.
Our former President, a globalist, embraced the notion of the value of diversity. He felt that everything should have a variety of people from different backgrounds, even if they're from different countries and cultures. He expanded immigration, legal, and illegal.
What about diversity in professional sports? How many Latinos, Asians or Jews are in the NFL and NBA? Are these sports harmed by not having a diverse population? Professional sports teams want to get the best athletes no matter what their cultural background.
Now Asian applicants to Harvard are suing saying that Harvard discriminates against them and for some other minorities. A study showed that a black candidate is many times more likely to get in than an Asian, though the Asian applicants had much better grades and scores.
A report that was in the Wall Street journal, and probably not in the mainstream media, reported that Asians with similar scores as blacks have a 20+% chance of being accepted while a person of African heritage has a 95%. The media rather said that Asians are only 5% of American residents but are enrolled about 20%. Here again we have quotas to justify unfair treatment. If the top Harvard 40% of applicants are Asian then they should admitted.
So what?
The result has been a decline in educational standards meaning that college grads are less educated and less prepared for a successful future. A college degree today is equal to what a high school diploma was 50 years ago. Half of all college graduates work at jobs that do not require a degree. This decline is also seen in high school education with many graduates not educated enough to go to college before taking several remedial courses to get an inferior education in college as well, since standards have been lowered.
You might ask, what's wrong with lower educational standards?
It makes a country's population that doesn't work well or think well. That leads to being less able to make intelligent consumer and political decisions. Unable to think deeply means that people will act out of emotion rather than intellect. We become driven by a herd/ heard mentality. If we hear that the group we like approves of something or someone, we do too.
The irony is that diversity is unavoidable. Some of us are smart, some are very attractive. Some are tall some are short, some are fat and some are skinny. Look at the diversity in love and career preferences. How many men are in love with the same woman, three out of 120 million American men? How many of us wanted to be a lawyer, a dentist, a heart surgeon, a philosophy professor, or a waiter, plumber, farmer, businessman, police officer, a firefighter or an airline steward? Some of us did; and we work in those fields. But the vast majority of us wouldn't think to do the other jobs or professions. Why? Because we are so diverse.
So is forced diversity needed or helpful?
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