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The case against race-based affirmative action

Poverty and education

On October 10, the Supreme Court will again reconsider the necessity and constitutionality of race-based affirmative action when it hears arguments in the case of Abigail, Fisher, a white woman who was rejected by the University of Texas and blames her rejection on the school’s partially race-based admissions process. Opponents of such policies argue that Read More

Is institutionalized racism dead?

New York Times

Many Americans insist that prejudice is extinct in our post-racial society, where we have a black president and everything. Of course, the officially sanctioned use of racism (À la Jim Crow laws) is a distant relic of the past, and no governmental or academic institution still exhibits racist behavior. Nope. If that were true, however, Read More