The affirmative action op-eds are starting to appear. Both the pro and the con. And there’s this sense of déjà vu. Yes, as that pre-hip hop group, Crosby, Stills and Nash, once sang, “We have all been here before.”
You don’t even have to go back to the 60’s and the Bakke decision. You can just roll it back a few years to Fisher.
We’ve been through all the arguments, especially that dreaded mismatch idea.
That’s where anti-affirmative action advocates blame students of color for not being able to handle the gift of opportunity at prestigious colleges. They just weren’t prepared, those poor minority students. They should be with their own kind, right?
You’ll see that line of attack gussied up for legal, but it’s a bogus argument.
The only mismatch was among the colleges, between what they did for recipients and in the lack of commitment to seeing the recipients succeed.
Any commitment hardly perceptible at all. Most programs were going through the motions.
