Reply #9: That's a bogus issue . . . [View All]

[beaconess]

The real issue is: if she were a legacy, an athlete, a white student who attended a predominantly black high school, a resident of the all-white Upper Peninsula, or a member of any of the other groups that benefitted from various preferences given by the University of Michigan, would her grades have guaranteed her admission.

If the answer is yes, she should have complained about the University's policy of giving preferences to other students - mostly white - rather than target the handful of minority students she insisted were not entitled to admission over her. After all, given the numbers, it is much more likely that a white student took the space to which she felt her grades entitled her.

But, of course, it's hard to generate much political support for a crusade against white people - it's so much easier to scream "REVERSE DISCRIMINATION!" and accuse black people of snatching away all of the opportunities from downtrodden white folks, who just can't catch a break in America.