Ward Connerly forces black parents to send their children to the Ivy League!
Some personal thoughts and observations:
Here is a link,http://www.diversityinc.com/public/21884print.cfm,to an article published today on the web site Diversityinc.com blaming Ward Connerly for, among other things, being responsible for black parents in California sending their children to ivy league schools where the atmosphere for people of color is better than in the University of California system, they say, since California voters passed Proposition 209 forbidding the use of race based quotas in state funded institutions.
The article concludes that this very outcome could be the fate of Michigan students if the MCRI passes.
When I was 18, in 1958, a friend in my graduating class at Cass Technical High School in Detroit was told by a Harvard recruiter that the private ivy league school had already filled its "quota for Jews" for the class of 1962, so he would be well advised to apply to the publicly funded University of Michigan. He did, was accepted, and went on to U of M's law school, and to a distinguished career.
I sometimes wonder if time passes at all for the supporters of BAMN and OUM?
The article linked above by the way talks about the decline in minority enrollment in the California university system since the passage of 209. Nowhere does it mention the drop out rate of minorities from Los Angeles' high schools, or the astounding percentage of Asian-Americans admitted to the University of California's world famous Berkeley campus.
Perhaps all of these issues should be brought out into the open, before the parents of the minorities who can have sent all of their children to eastern private schools leaving no source of future leadership at all for Californians of color.
Would quotas have made any difference in the collapsing public school system of California's largest city?
Would they make any difference to Detroit's abominable school system?
Here is a link,http://www.diversityinc.com/public/21884print.cfm,to an article published today on the web site Diversityinc.com blaming Ward Connerly for, among other things, being responsible for black parents in California sending their children to ivy league schools where the atmosphere for people of color is better than in the University of California system, they say, since California voters passed Proposition 209 forbidding the use of race based quotas in state funded institutions.
The article concludes that this very outcome could be the fate of Michigan students if the MCRI passes.
When I was 18, in 1958, a friend in my graduating class at Cass Technical High School in Detroit was told by a Harvard recruiter that the private ivy league school had already filled its "quota for Jews" for the class of 1962, so he would be well advised to apply to the publicly funded University of Michigan. He did, was accepted, and went on to U of M's law school, and to a distinguished career.
I sometimes wonder if time passes at all for the supporters of BAMN and OUM?
The article linked above by the way talks about the decline in minority enrollment in the California university system since the passage of 209. Nowhere does it mention the drop out rate of minorities from Los Angeles' high schools, or the astounding percentage of Asian-Americans admitted to the University of California's world famous Berkeley campus.
Perhaps all of these issues should be brought out into the open, before the parents of the minorities who can have sent all of their children to eastern private schools leaving no source of future leadership at all for Californians of color.
Would quotas have made any difference in the collapsing public school system of California's largest city?
Would they make any difference to Detroit's abominable school system?
posted by Jack Lifton at 5:16 PM
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