Should someone who is a beneficiary (or potential beneficiary) of affirmative action be allowed to judge the merits of an affirmative action case? Is there a conflict of interest?
Judge Biggs graduated from Howard Law School (a black university). Most district judges graduate from a top law school, with the majority coming from a law school in ~top 25, heavily weighted towards the top schools.
Howard is a 3rd tier law school, usually ranked about 100th (generously).
She noted that minority students report being “confronted with racial epithets, as well as feeling isolated, ostracized, stereotyped and viewed as tokens” at UNC-CH And evidence shows that, as a whole, “underrepresented minorities are admitted at lower rates than their white and Asian American counterparts, and those with the highest grades and SAT scores are denied twice as often as their white and Asian American peers,” Biggs said.
Really? Hispanic and black students with the "highest grades and SAT scores" are denied twice as often as their white and Asian peers"? That sounds like complete nonsense.
Edit: the only way I can imagine this being true, is if it's saying, e.g., a Hispanic kid with a 1300 (higher percentile compared to other hispanics) is rejected at the same rate as an Asian kid with a 1600 SAT (relatively many Asians with 1600 SATs, so some might be rejected).
Affirmative action is one of the biggest reasons this country is collapsing imo. We're only a few decades into this bullshit. Imagine what things will be like in 200 years?? I can't even fathom how fucked things will be by then.
district court decision, doesn't mean shit until it either goes to or is rejected by the supreme court
It is an interesting question.
Should someone who is a beneficiary (or potential beneficiary) of affirmative action be allowed to judge the merits of an affirmative action case? Is there a conflict of interest?
Judge Biggs graduated from Howard Law School (a black university). Most district judges graduate from a top law school, with the majority coming from a law school in ~top 25, heavily weighted towards the top schools.
Howard is a 3rd tier law school, usually ranked about 100th (generously).
Really? Hispanic and black students with the "highest grades and SAT scores" are denied twice as often as their white and Asian peers"? That sounds like complete nonsense.
Edit: the only way I can imagine this being true, is if it's saying, e.g., a Hispanic kid with a 1300 (higher percentile compared to other hispanics) is rejected at the same rate as an Asian kid with a 1600 SAT (relatively many Asians with 1600 SATs, so some might be rejected).
But by definition that is illegal!
Honestly these morons need to be constantly challenged in court
Affirmative action is one of the biggest reasons this country is collapsing imo. We're only a few decades into this bullshit. Imagine what things will be like in 200 years?? I can't even fathom how fucked things will be by then.