Now that all the data is in, a small group of Asian Americans should hang their heads in shame. The group with the ironic and hypocritical name, Students for Fair Admissions, was corralled by anti-affirmative action advocate Ed Blum and effectively duped and used to sue Harvard over race-based admissions.
The result? After six years of litigation that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, we are further from equity and fairness than we’ve ever been.
Emil Guillermo
Admissions processes that included race as a factor may not have been perfect. But what we are left with is that old familiar “colorblind” option that gets us no closer to the promised land.
Colorblind is the term anti-AA types hijacked from Dr. Martin Luther King to describe their solution to fair admissions. They pretend to “not see color.” In truth, it’s just blind racism. A way to dodge real responsibility. Blindness is used as the excuse for failing to achieve fair admissions.
After all the litigation we’ve essentially replaced a purposeful process intended to help make student populations more diverse, with a process that leaves it up to chance.
It’s a different game now, that makes it better for whites, who after years of being dominant in student populations were faced with diminished numbers. You can’t have diversity and have the same pie share. How do you feel good about going from 70-80 percent of a student population to less than 50 percent?
So the anti-affirmative action types had to litigate and force the race blind alternative. Of course, they never touched the form of affirmative action which survived the Harvard suit, that is affirmative action for legacies of the wealthy and the gifted athletically.
