. . . racial discrimination in college admissions.
The anointed ones on the editorial board defend this position on the basis of . . .
. . . "our nation's founding principles of fairness and equal opportunity."
These nine words eloquently testify to how little the Houston Chronicle editorial board knows about fairness, about equal opportunity, and most sadly, about our nation's founding principles.
The Chronicle has one and only one metric for "equal opportunity" -- aggregate racial outcomes. How about the unequal opportunity for individuals that results from this naked racialism -- the admission of, say, the less-qualified son of black surgeons over the more-qualified daughter of a white mechanic and nurse's assistant?
Call it what it is: "unequal opportunity": a thumb on the scale to favor a progressive client group and assuage white liberal guilt.
Among the sins of this editorial and others like it is the degradation of language. In the new dispensation, "colorblind" and "race-neutral" translate as "racist." And bad-old "racial discrimination" -- the very thing the Chronicle favors -- is dressed up as "race-conscious admission."
It is as if Martin Luther King had called for American blacks to be judged by the color of their skin and not by the content of their character -- or by their SATs or grades or extra-curricular accomplishments or any other accomplishments.
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