Asians: The Non-Preferred Minority
This entry was posted on 11/28/2006 3:02 PM and is filed under Universities,Political Correctness.
LaShawn Barber, a black, former liberal blogger, has many interesting things to say,
here, about diversity, peace be unto it and all its manifestations.
A sample, but you won't be sorry if you read it all.
"Ten years ago this month, the people of California
voted out government racial preferences. Since considering the race of applicants is now illegal, colleges have had to rely on race-neutral factors like grades and test scores. But once again we read about Asians excelling and blacks and hispanics getting left behind. The question asked is will Asian-Americans one day make up a majority of students at the University of California? Thanks to race-neutral admissions, YES.
An excerpt:
Asian-Americans - 14.1 percent of California's 2005 high school graduating class - make up 41.8 percent of the freshman class at UC campuses, up from 36 percent a decade ago.
Meanwhile, blacks at 3 percent and whites at 32.2 percent make up smaller shares of UC's freshman class than they did previously. Latinos account for 16.3 percent of UC freshmen, up from 13 percent a decade ago, but still less than half their 36.5 percentage of state high school graduates.
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How
do those Asians manage to do so well without an active subculture of vocal Asian advocates? Think what they could accomplish if only Jesse Jackson had been born in Beijing!
