Post by aj2hall on Oct 31, 2022 22:13:47 GMT
KBJ showing again why she was an excellent choice for the supreme court. She basically asked if it was OK for admissions to give preference for legacy students but not preference to other students for race.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/31/ketanji-brown-jackson-legacies-affirmative-action/
Jackson’s riddle: One applicant writes in his essay that it is important to him that he be admitted because his family has lived in North Carolina since before the Civil War and he would be the fifth generation of his family to proudly attend UNC. Another applicant writes that his family, too, has lived in North Carolina since before the Civil War, and it is important to him that he attend UNC because he is the descendant of enslaved people and his ancestors were barred from attending the university. Was Strawbridge arguing that the university could give preference to the first candidate but not to the second?
Strawbridge hemmed and hawed, but acknowledged that, yes, that was his position. He said nothing prohibits “honoring those who have overcome slavery or recognizing its past contribution to racial segregation,” in other contexts but that this is not “a basis to make decisions about admission of students who are born in 2003.”
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/31/ketanji-brown-jackson-legacies-affirmative-action/
Jackson’s riddle: One applicant writes in his essay that it is important to him that he be admitted because his family has lived in North Carolina since before the Civil War and he would be the fifth generation of his family to proudly attend UNC. Another applicant writes that his family, too, has lived in North Carolina since before the Civil War, and it is important to him that he attend UNC because he is the descendant of enslaved people and his ancestors were barred from attending the university. Was Strawbridge arguing that the university could give preference to the first candidate but not to the second?
Strawbridge hemmed and hawed, but acknowledged that, yes, that was his position. He said nothing prohibits “honoring those who have overcome slavery or recognizing its past contribution to racial segregation,” in other contexts but that this is not “a basis to make decisions about admission of students who are born in 2003.”
