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College quotas are actually destroying lives of minorities
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Topic Started: Dec 9 2015, 09:18 AM (190 Views)
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Dec 9 2015, 09:18 AM
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http://nypost.com/2015/12/08/college-quotas-are-actually-destroying-lives-of-minorities/
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Today the US Supreme Court hears a constitutional challenge to racial preferences in college admissions. These preferences obviously hurt whites and Asians turned down to make room for less qualified minorities, but ironically, the preferences also harm many Hispanics and African-Americans — the very students they’re supposed to help.
No wonder campuses are roiled with racial tension. It’s high time the court put a stop to racial preferences entirely.
Abigail Fisher, a white woman who sued the University of Texas for rejecting her in 2008, claims the university’s admissions process unconstitutionally favored minority applicants, violating her right to equality under the law. Like affirmative-action programs everywhere, the school claims it judges each applicant “holistically.” Don’t buy it.
For University of Texas applicants, simply being born black or Hispanic gets you points for “achievement,” even if your parents are wealthy bankers. Being born white or Asian gets you zip. It’s similar at Harvard, which is being sued in another case. In defense, Harvard says “when choosing among academically qualified applicants,” colleges need “freedom and flexibility to consider each person’s unique background.”
That’s doubletalk. Many minorities admitted to elite schools based on race aren’t “academically qualified.”
A survey of selective colleges by UCLA professor Richard Sander documented that students who get in based on race tend to earn lower grades and are less likely to graduate. At less demanding colleges, they’d have a better chance to succeed.
They’re in over their heads.
But not in California, which outlawed racial preferences in 1996. Minority students now are more apt to attend lower ranked public colleges but twice as likely to graduate.
Gail Heriot, a member of the US Commission on Civil Rights, points to “mounting empirical evidence” that admitting students based on race is “doing more harm than good.”
That poignant lesson seems lost on administrators at elite universities who boast about large minority enrollments.
Racial preferences in law-school admissions put many minorities on the failure track. At selective law schools, 51 percent of African-American first-year students admitted with racial preferences had grades in the bottom 10 percent of their class, compared with only 5 percent of white students.
It’s one thing to be at the bottom of the class, but, Heriot explains, “It is quite another for an African-American student to find himself toward the bottom of the class and to find half of his African-American friends and acquaintances there too.” It stokes bitterness and feelings of injustice.
Minority students struggling academically tend to segregate themselves from other students. And turn to nonacademic pursuits — like campus protests. This fall’s protesters at the University of Missouri, Princeton, Harvard and Yale are demanding “safe spaces” for black students only.
In previous decades, students protested the Vietnam War or economic inequality. Today, they whine about perceived racial slights. Imagine being admitted to an Ivy League college and then complaining about the names on the buildings — John Calhoun at Yale or Woodrow Wilson at Princeton (as if anyone who lived more than a century ago would pass muster by today’s values).
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas warned from personal experience about the harm to minority students: “I watched the operation of such affirmative-action policies when I was in college, and I watched destruction of many kids as a result.”
Of course, the justices hearing the Texas case will focus on the harm done to students excluded because they aren’t favored minorities. Whites like Abigail Fisher, but also Asians.
Like Harvard and many universities, the University of Texas limits Asian students, even though they have the highest test scores. Asian-American groups label that “racist” and remind the court, “It demeans the dignity and worth of a person to be judged by ancestry instead of his or her own merit and essential qualities.”
It’s also unconstitutional. Now’s the time for the justices to say so unambiguously, and put a stop to it.
Betsy McCaughey is a senior fellow at the London Center for Policy Research.
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Dec 9 2015, 09:28 AM
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Honestly,
I don't think that college admissions are what it's cracked up to be anymore. I mean, unless your goal is to become a medical professional or scientist, there's so many other alternatives for receiving a higher education, and I think that talent plays a larger role in futures today.
So somebody who can do something real good like cook, can make more money in business than a Harvard or Yale Grad can ever hope to.
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Dec 9 2015, 09:35 AM
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Today,
A simple invention or your own spin on a popular product can catapult you from rags to riches overnight.
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Dec 9 2015, 09:42 AM
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Today,
A simple invention can catapult you from rags to riches overnight. Super Soaker creator awarded $72.9M from Hasbro
http://www.ajc.com/news/business/super-soaker-creator-awarded-729m-from-hasbro/nbjmm/
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The Atlanta-based company behind the Super Soaker water gun and Nerf toy guns has been awarded nearly $73 million in royalties from toymaker Hasbro Inc., according to the law firm King & Spalding.
Johnson Research and Development Co. and founder Lonnie Johnson have been in a royalty dispute with Hasbro since February, when the company filed a claim against the giant toy company. According to King & Spalding, which along with the A. Leigh Baier P.C. law firm represented Johnson, Hasbro underpaid royalties for the Nerf line toys from 2007 to 2012.
“In the arbitration we got everything we asked for,” said Atlanta attorney Leigh Baier. “The arbitrator ruled totally in Lonnie’s favor.” The attorney also said Johnson “is very pleased” with the outcome. Super Soaker creator awarded $72.9M from Hasbro photo Johnson Research and Development Co. and founder Lonnie Johnson have been in a licensing dispute with Hasbro since February, when the company filed a claim against the giant toy company. (SPECIAL)
Johnson could not be reached for comment Wednesday, nor could Pawtucket, RI.-based Hasbro.
The arbitration agreement resolves a 2001 inventors dispute in which Hasbro agreed to pay Johnson royalties for products covered by his Nerf line of toys, specifically the N-Strike and Dart Tag brands, King & Spalding attorney Ben Easterlin said.
In a separate breach of contract suit filed in U.S. District Court in Atlanta in February, Johnson accuses Hasbro of violating a 1996 agreement to pay him Super Soaker royalties of 2 percent for “three-dimensional products” based on the appearance of the toy and 1 percent for “two-dimensional visual representations.” Super Soaker creator awarded $72.9M from Hasbro
 Atlanta inventor Lonnie Johnson, the creator of the Super Soaker, stands next to a sputtering system machine in his labs in downtown Atlanta on October 20, 2008.
The suit says Hasbro sold water guns that were “visually similar and based upon the appearance of Super Soaker water guns that incorporate Johnson’s technology.” Johnson also wanted the court to force Hasbro to open its books to determine sales of Super Soaker products from 2006 to 20012.
Johnson, a nuclear engineer, Tuskegee University Ph.D. and former NASA scientist, founded his company in 1989. It was the same year he first licensed the Super Soaker, which generated more than $200 million in retail sales two years later, the company said. The toy was licensed to Larami Corp., which was later purchased by Hasbro.
Johnson holds more than 80 patents, with more than 20 pending, the company said, which said sales of the Super Soaker have approached nearly $1 billion.
As an Alabama high school senior, Johnson finished building a remote-controlled robot with a reel-to-reel tape player for a brain and jukebox solenoids controlling its pneumatic limbs, according to a 2008 profile in the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
After graduating from Tuskegee he joined the Air Force, worked at the Air Force Weapons Laboratory at Sandia, worked for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab on the Galileo mission to Jupiter and the Mars Observer project, among others. He also helped design the Cassini robot probe that flew 740 million miles to Saturn.
He moved to Atlanta in 1990 before his Super Soaker invention made him wealthy. His inventions have included rechargeable battery technology and thermodynamic energy conversion technology.
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Dec 9 2015, 09:49 AM
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Okay,
In this case, the inventor is an engineer and PhD scientist. But you don't have to have a college education at all to invent and put a product on the market. There's so many ways to get an idea out of your brain into actual production.
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Dec 9 2015, 09:53 AM
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Okay,
In this case, the inventor is an engineer and PhD scientist. But you don't have to have a college education at all to invent and put a product on the market. There's so many ways to get an idea out of your brain into actual production. No you don't. It's up to you to find out what some people want, and then develop something that will fill in that void.
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Dec 9 2015, 09:56 AM
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Okay,
In this case, the inventor is an engineer and PhD scientist. But you don't have to have a college education at all to invent and put a product on the market. There's so many ways to get an idea out of your brain into actual production. No you don't. It's up to you to find out what some people want, and then develop something that will fill in that void. Exactly.
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Dec 9 2015, 10:27 AM
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Segregation here they come again.......oh well they never wanted it anyway, quotas were just another way to appease us.....and it's not used that much to begin with. They(powers that be) would like for us to think so but it's not true. They are merely searching for a way to keep blacks from becoming "too" educated so they can keep "controlling" us.
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Dec 9 2015, 10:40 AM
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When I graduated from high school back in 1958, there were several of my classmates that attended Northern Colleges that were predominately white, and even my mother was offered the chance to get her masters at NYU. however she settled for Atlanta University. There was no quota system, nor an Affirmative Action program back then.As far as I'm concerned, Affirmative Action to me, means that you're NOT smart to compete against regular White and Asian students.
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Dec 9 2015, 10:49 AM
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When I graduated from high school back in 1958, there were several of my classmates that attended Northern Colleges that were predominately white, and even my mother was offered the chance to get her masters at NYU. however she settled for Atlanta University. There was no quota system, nor an Affirmative Action program back then.As far as I'm concerned, Affirmative Action to me, means that you're NOT smart to compete against regular White and Asian students. Did it ever occur to you that the affirmative action wasn't really real but just a disguise for racism? For a need to create an illusion of blacks being less intelligent? I mean, for hundreds of years, white societies been striving to make themselves appear un-linked to and more intelligent than blacks.
And let us not forget how they made black men look like brainless idiots in every motion picture from the 70's through 90's.
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