Scalia today in the affirmative action hearing:
Mother Jones:
Justice Scalia Suggests Blacks Belong at "Slower" Colleges
LA Times op ed:
No, Scalia's comment about 'less-advanced' schools wasn't racist
Essentially Scalia put his foot in his mouth assuming affirmative action used to keep student populations racially balanced means the students who score a point for being black are going to do worse than the student who didn't need that point for race.
But that's not what the research shows. College admission procedures are not perfect measures of how well students will do. Thousands of students who would do well don't get in and thousands that get in don't do well.
But rather than look at the evidence of how students do that got in because they had points for their race, he made a racist assumption that the reason a black didn't do as well on the admission requirements was because the student was inferior. They aren't inferior, they have fewer advantages earlier on in their lives.
The LA Times op ed suggests because Scalia didn't say 'all blacks' his comment wasn't racist.
Mother Jones:
Justice Scalia Suggests Blacks Belong at "Slower" Colleges
LA Times op ed:
No, Scalia's comment about 'less-advanced' schools wasn't racist
Essentially Scalia put his foot in his mouth assuming affirmative action used to keep student populations racially balanced means the students who score a point for being black are going to do worse than the student who didn't need that point for race.
But that's not what the research shows. College admission procedures are not perfect measures of how well students will do. Thousands of students who would do well don't get in and thousands that get in don't do well.
But rather than look at the evidence of how students do that got in because they had points for their race, he made a racist assumption that the reason a black didn't do as well on the admission requirements was because the student was inferior. They aren't inferior, they have fewer advantages earlier on in their lives.
The LA Times op ed suggests because Scalia didn't say 'all blacks' his comment wasn't racist.
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